united states

Presents a collection of nineteen controversial essays that debate issues for and against censorship of a variety of forms of expression.

Provides insights into the life and thought of early twentieth-century birth control advocate Margaret Sanger through an annotated chronological arrangement of excerpts from her letters, articles, and speeches.

Biography of William Claude Dukinfield, better known as W.C. Fields, tracing his career from vaudeville, to the silent screen, to talking movies, and discussing some of the legends deliberately created by the curmudgeonly comic that obscure the truth about his life.

Autistic author Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay provides insight into how the mind of an autistic person works and how someone with autism views the world.

Provides information on court cases related to gender and offers varying perspectives on their rulings, discussing selective service registration for males, discrimination in employment decisions, the single-sex policy of the Virginia Military Institute, and gender-based discrimination towards transsexuals.

Presents eighty-one years of cartoons from The New Yorker Magazine since its creation in 1925, brief profiles of major cartoonists, and a DVD-ROM with 70,363 cartoons.

Chronicles the ups and downs of a single season in the lives of three college cheerleading squads, following the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks, the Southern University Jaguars, and the University of Memphis All-Girl cheerleaders from tryouts to the National Championships.

New York nurse Margaret Sanger describes her work with women who became pregnant without wanting to and how it influenced her fight for birth control as a basic right.

Traces the history of the American labor movement from its origins through nineteenth-century industrialization, examining the growth of the labor movement, the decline of its influence, and the efforts being made in the early twenty-first century to revitalize American unions. Includes biographies, primary sources, a chronology, and other resources.

Presents nineteen primary and secondary sources on the positions of U.S. courts on students' rights, covering four cases on student searches, free expression, drug tests for athletes, and the Pledge of Allegiance.