Figures in the Carpet - Finding the Human Person in the American Past (Paperback)

"What does it mean to be a human person?" This volume is a historical inquiry into that foundational, deceptively simple question. Viewing the human person from various perspectives -- law, education, business, media, religion, medicine, community life, gender, art -- sixteen historians of American life explore how our understanding of personhood has changed over time and how that changing understanding has significantly affected our ideas about morality and human rights, our conversations about public policy, and our American culture as a whole.

Contributors: Margaret Bendroth
Allan Carlson
Thomas R. Cole
Daniel Walker Howe
Richard H. King
Michael J. Lacey
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
George M. Marsden
Eugene McCarraher
Wilfred M. McClay
John T. McGreevy
Eric Miller
Sally M. Promey
Charles J. Reid Jr.
Christine Rosen
Christopher Shannon
Daniel Wickberg