Congressional Record
Congressional Record

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher:

Published: 1952

Total Pages: 1414

ISBN-13:

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Federal Motion Picture Commission
Federal Motion Picture Commission

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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This 1914 document represents the first major U.S. government concern with the movies. These hearings investigate the possibility of creating a federal motion picture commission, particularly to control the content of films.

Moral Reconstruction
Moral Reconstruction

Author: Gaines M. Foster

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2003-04-03

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0807860166

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Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Gaines Foster explores the force behind this unprecedented federal regulation of personal morality--a combined Christian lobby. Foster analyzes the fears of appetite and avarice that led organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Reform Association to call for moral legislation and examines the efforts and interconnections of the men and women who lobbied for it. His account underscores the crucial role white southerners played in the rise of moral reform after 1890. With emancipation, white southerners no longer needed to protect slavery from federal intervention, and they seized on moral legislation as a tool for controlling African Americans. Enriching our understanding of the aftermath of the Civil War and the expansion of national power, Moral Reconstruction also offers valuable insight into the link between historical and contemporary efforts to legislate morality.

Federal Motion Picture Commission
Federal Motion Picture Commission

Author:

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-30

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780267276066

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Excerpt from Federal Motion Picture Commission: Hearings Before the Committee on Education, House of Representatives, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First Session on H. R. 456, a Bill to Create a New Division of the Bureau of Education, to Be Known as the Federal Motion Picture Commission, and Defining Its Pow Mr. Fess. Mr. Chairman, before Dr. Crafts begins, may it be understood that we will not sit here later than 10 o'clock? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.