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The Drinking Age Debates, Joy Shana Newman Getnick
The Drinking Age Debates, Joy Shana Newman Getnick
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
In times when regulation, not prohibition, has prevailed, Americans have struggled to regulate youth and young adult alcohol use in a way that targets undesirable problem behaviors and future potential for severe abuse, while acknowledging the realities of youthful moderate drinking. Historically, changes in youth drinking laws reflected new adult understandings of youth alcohol use. These laws were a legislative manifestation of changing public opinion, and the perceived role that policy should play in promoting safe, intelligent drinking behavior.
As They Saw The Thirties : Activist Youth's Vision Of And For America, Britt Haas
As They Saw The Thirties : Activist Youth's Vision Of And For America, Britt Haas
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
During the Great Depression, young radicals developed a vision of and for America that they tried to implement. That vision was molded by their understanding of recent historical events, in particular the Great War and the global economic collapse, as well as by the events unfolding both at home and abroad in the 1930s. Young people came together, forming youth organizations under the leadership of radical activists to make their vision of a free, equal, democratic society based on peaceful coexistence a reality. At first, youth organized on a sectarian basis, but by 1935, two umbrella groups- the American Youth …