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Historians have both given it reality and shaken its substance as they exposed an undercurrent of greed, class conflict, and corruption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book Harold Hyman explores the question of American singularity, using the Northwest Ordinance, the Homestead and Morrill acts, and the G.I Bill to measure individual access to land, education, and law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Northwest Ordinance, enacted in 1787 to encourage settlement of the nation's untamed territories, mandated the establishment of public schools and stable property rights in newly settled lands--specific terms which enshrined the basic liberties secured by the Revolutionary War. Hyman shows that through the Homestead and Morrill acts of 1862, legislators sought to preserve the values of the Union and to prepare for the entrance of the black man into citizenship. Equal access to public lands in the West and to state land-grant universities, countered the economic and social injustices blacks and poor whites would face after the Civil War. Finally, Hyman asserts that the G.I. Bill preserved beneficial social programs forged during the depression, carrying into post-World War II America a widespread concern for education and housing opportunities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the legislation that emerged from three periods of conflict in American history, Hyman reveals a consistent pattern favoring equal access to land, education, and law--a progression of singular, if sometimes flawed, attempts to embody in our statutes the values and aspirations that sparked our major wars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371372777745,"sku":"CIN0820332968G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008512491793,"sku":"NIN9780820332963","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52334425112849,"sku":"NLS9780820332963","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0820332968.jpg?v=1786127325"},{"product_id":"to-try-men-s-souls-book-harold-m-hyman-9780520345669","title":"To Try Men's Souls","description":"\u003cb\u003eTo Try Men’s Souls: Loyalty Tests in American History\u003c\/b\u003e offers the first comprehensive narrative of how governments in the United States have used oaths and other tests to define, demand, and police allegiance. Harold M. Hyman traces these practices from their medieval and Reformation antecedents to their transplantation in the New World, where they became recurring features of American political life. Structured episodically to reflect their crisis-driven character, the book examines loyalty tests during wars, rebellions, and fears of subversion, showing how they emerged, the forms they took, and what purposes they served. Drawing on wide-ranging archival sources, Hyman avoids simple partisan or ideological categories: champions and critics of loyalty tests span the American political spectrum, from Sam Adams and Jefferson to Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. The result is a nuanced account of loyalty tests as both instruments of state power and symbols of partisan solidarity, marked by convenience, controversy, and contradiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Central to the study is the oath—of office, allegiance, or conformity—as the quintessential loyalty test. Hyman demonstrates how oaths functioned to expose dissenters, secure regimes, and enforce religious and political orthodoxy, while also sparking resistance, especially once the passions of emergencies had passed. He shows how loyalty tests have repeatedly been judged “cruel and oppressive” in retrospect, yet reemerged in subsequent crises, from the Civil War to the Cold War. By situating American loyalty tests within broader historical traditions and following their transformations into modern indices of allegiance, \u003cb\u003eTo Try Men’s Souls\u003c\/b\u003e provides a powerful lens on the tensions between liberty and security. Scholars of constitutional history, political culture, and civil liberties—as well as citizens concerned with the balance between dissent and patriotism—will find in this book an indispensable, thought-provoking history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. 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