Background
Mills, Nicolaus was born on December 2, 1938 in Cleveland. Son of Nicolaus and Muriel Mills.
(The year 1964 produced a watershed in American race relat...)
The year 1964 produced a watershed in American race relations. In one of the civil rights movement's most dramatic initiatives, thousands of Northern white college students were recruited to come south that summer in an effort to "break" Mississippi and secure voting rights for its black citizens. Nicolaus Mills traces the history of this Summer Project, including its origins and aftermath, and shows in detail how its consequences involved not only great victories but also violence (the murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, among other events) and disillusion. His persuasive argument is that the noble quest for racial solidarity turned bitter and divisive in practice, climaxed by the Democratic party's rejection of the Mississippi Freedom Democrats at the 1964 national convention. In the rush of black anger that followed, the gains of the summer were forgotten and Black Power was born―and blacks went their separate way in trying to achieve equality in America. Relations between whites and blacks took a crucial turning which continues powerfully to influence our politics and social well-being today.
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( On Memorial Day weekend in 2004, the National World War...)
On Memorial Day weekend in 2004, the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington will officially open to the public. What began as a casual conversation between a Congresswoman and one of her constituents in 1987 grew into a struggle that lasted more than four times longer than it took America to fight the war itself. Its rocky progress to completion is a compelling story about how America chooses to memorialize its past and how we view World War II.Nicolaus Mills recounts the development of the Washington Mall, from its time as swampland to Southern outrage over the Lincoln Memorial to Maya Lin's controversial Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. The World War II Memorial would prove just as controversial; it took the support of WW II vet Bob Dole and actor Tom Hanks to overrule the strong objections of interest groups, self-appointed art critics, and others.In Their Last Battle, a story vividly narrated through interviews with politicians and vets, architects and citizens, Mills discovers what a public monument can tell us about America and the values it honors.
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(Spanning a broad spectrum of ideological viewpoints, this...)
Spanning a broad spectrum of ideological viewpoints, this collection of essays by influential social and political commentators and policy-makers examines the issue of affirmative action, how it is understood, and how it is implemented.
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(Fifteen brilliant essays on the kind of culture created b...)
Fifteen brilliant essays on the kind of culture created by the magic of the marketplace in 1980s America, from architecture to the yuppie ascendancy.
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writer American studies educator
Mills, Nicolaus was born on December 2, 1938 in Cleveland. Son of Nicolaus and Muriel Mills.
AB, Harvard University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1966.
Assistant professor English. University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1965-1970. Researcher Center for Urban and Minority Studies Columbia University Teachers College, New York City, 1970-1972.
Professor American studies Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, since 1972.
(Spanning a broad spectrum of ideological viewpoints, this...)
(Fifteen brilliant essays on the kind of culture created b...)
( On Memorial Day weekend in 2004, the National World War...)
(The year 1964 produced a watershed in American race relat...)
("he must take on the orthodox task of analysing their work")
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Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.