In this book Donald Jackson unravels the complex meanings of equal protection doctrine and its various interpretations over the last 134 years. He explores the conceptual basis for a variety of "pecking orders" (or discriminations) - most notably race and sex, but also wealth, occupation, and education - that have been used to justify special privilege, status, or rewards. He also examines the tensions between equal protection and American individualism, offering possible ways to resolve apparently intractable conflicts between individualism and affirmative action policies. Jackson argues that an assumption of human equality is always appropriate and that the burden of proof should be on those who want to justify treating people differently, for whatever reason. Our long-standing difficulty, he contends, has not been with the principle of equality but with the inferior reasons we have accepted for deviating from that principle. Deliberately cast for the general reader, this study should widen the public understanding of equality and raise the level of the debates that surround it.

Offers compelling insight into how designer Eastwood battled government bureaucrats, corporate patrons, and fellow hydraulic engineers to build seventeen dams in the western U.S. during the early twentieth century based on his innovative multiple-arch design. Reprint.

A Sportsman's Journey lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald C. Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America’s Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find meaning in why hunters and anglers venture far afield. Journeying alongside the author, readers will savor the magic of sunrises and the mystery of twilight. Hearts will quicken as deer drift from shadows and ducks circle a woodland pond. The ocean will challenge them as they fight large fish from the deck of a wave-tossed boat far out at sea. Restless winds will whisper messages during a spring squirrel hunt on a Mississippi farm. Bird dogs, old guns, old friends, and times shared with loved ones will remind anglers and hunters of those special, shared memories. Ancient forests and powerful rivers remind us of our fragile, ephemeral state. Quail hunts strengthen cherished relationships with companions. Encounters with a mountain man will take us into a world thought to have vanished generations ago. A gathering of anglers on a Gulf Coast fishing pier at night reminds us of those hidden communities that exist around us, and are often unrecognized or perhaps even unknown. Jackson reveals how all of us depend on the natural world and share very personal interactions with it and with each other. This book reminds us that rediscovering, resurrecting, and celebrating these primal linkages are the real reasons we explore the world.

Accounts of military life of troops with General George Custer during his successful search for gold on Sioux lands in the Black Hills in Dakota territory.

The outlook is for further improvement in the economic position of American agriculture in 1937.

Reprint of the U. of Illinois Press edition of 1981 (which is distinguished by its inclusion in BCL3).