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Dexter Perkins
Dexter Perkins (June 20, 1889 – May 12, 1984) was an American historian who served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of American History at the University of Rochester, before leaving for Cornell.
Most acclaimed
Charles Evans Hughes and American democratic statesmanship
This is the tenth title in the now well-established Library of American Biographies (launched with Catton's U.S. Grant). The books are to be judged individually, and stand up exceedingly well as concise, pertinent studies. This volume does not compete with Merlo Pusey's definitive two volume biography (1951) of Charles Evans Hughes, but for the average reader it will fill the need. Actually it could be defined neither as a full life nor a eulogy of Hughes, but a sketch of a professional ""wise man"", a type intelligent in the extreme, yet neither imaginative nor audacious. He sees Hughes as glamorless humorless, an embodiment of integrity, as quick to leap in defense of the Socialist enemy or victim of prejudice as he remains steadfast in support of tradition, bound by his sense of duty, meticulous, exacting. Whether investigating offenses in the utility field, or justice -- later Chief Justice- of Supreme Court, Secretary of State, candidate for the Presidency, Hughes emerges less as a personality than an ideal of the conservative, devoted, incorruptible servant of the people. The text seems perhaps stripped bare of the purely human elements; the decisions handed down by Hughes, his continued acts of social progress and shaping of national policies, are the book's blood and bones. Its focus is Hughes' viewpoint, his style, his reasoning. For the legal fraternity and those who relish a glimpse of makers of history.
The United States of America
Antisemitism in the United States describes incidents of hatred, hostility, harm, prejudice or discrimination against people identifying as Jews, religiously, culturally and/or ethnically within the United States of America. It typically includes: Attitudes, including those of organized hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi Organizations, Nation of Islam and those more widely disseminated in the population; Behaviors that can threaten the security of American Jews, as measured by the occurrence of specific incidents, including hate crimes; and Discrimination against Jews, threatening their security. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data shows that in every year since 1991, Jews were the most frequent targets of religiously motivated hate crimes even though current numbers may be underreported, as is the case for many other targeted groups. As of 2023, the FBI calculated that antisemitic incidents accounted for 68% of all religion-based hate crimes, an increase of 63% since 2022, while the American Jewish Committee (AJC) said that figure was "likely much lower" than the actual number as hate crimes had been "widely underreported across the country." A 2025 survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, concluded that "60% of Americans ... at least somewhat agree that antisemitism is a serious problem." Twenty-four percent of Americans, however, maintained that recent antisemitic attacks were understandable.