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This volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question "what does a post-positivist social science look like?

"These volumes have been prepared to present in more convenient form for present reference the series of articles on 'American political history,' contributed to Lalor's Cyclopædia of political science, political economy, and political history, by the late Professor Alexander Johnston."--Pref. ; I. The revolution, the Constitution, and the growth of nationality, 1763-1832.--II. The slavery controversy, Civil War and Reconstruction, 1820-1876. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"These volumes have been prepared to present in more convenient form for present reference the series of articles on 'American political history,' contributed to Lalor's Cyclopædia of political science, political economy, and political history, by the late Professor Alexander Johnston."--Pref. ; I. The revolution, the Constitution, and the growth of nationality, 1763-1832.--II. The slavery controversy, Civil War and Reconstruction, 1820-1876. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Writing in the October Atlantic Monthly, Paul P. Cram insists that "the task of our teachers at the present moment is one of the most terrible responsibilities in modern times." In less troubled eras, some of us would probably reply that teachers have little influence over college students, who are more interested in sex, football, and liquor than in democracy and war and peace. But Bismarck declared that the German history professor had more to do with winning the Franco-Prussian war than any other group in the Fatherland with the exception of the German High Command. And the fate of France demonstrates with terrible clarity the misfortune that may befall a nation if its people are mentally unprepared to meet existing emergencies.