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The Unraveling
Pakistan in the Age of Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue's gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups?
In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan's involvement with radical Islam,...
"I Hope to Do My Country Service"
The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing...
by John L. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This biography by John Ward, a former member of Rockefeller's staff and director of his 1968 reelection campaign, presents the story of the first Rockefeller ever to live south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Winthrop Rockefeller was a man whose determination to build a viable two-party system in Arkansas...
The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early...
Doubting Thomas?
The Religious Life and Legacy of Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A religious historian argues that historical revisionism has distorted the religious views of Thomas Jefferson, making him appear far more skeptical than he was.
Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers intended a strict separation of church and state, right? He would have been very upset...
The Pledge
One Nation Under God
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
LEARN THE TRUE HISTORYOF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICA AND WHAT YOU CAN DOTO PROTECT THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE! Atheist Michael Newdow is determined to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. His allies...
by Martin Capages Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Somewhere in the preceding generations, the direction of the United States of America has careened towards an unsustainable progressive interpretation of the Constitution that will lead to further bankruptcy of the Nation and threatens individual Freedom. The Government has set itself above the...
by Finbarr Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable...
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America. Nelson does not see "theology" as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying...
by Kenneth S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1984
No state's creation was more dramatic, more at the center of national attention, more involved in fundamental moral conflict, than that of Kansas. In a sense, the state's history began with the arrival of the first Puritans of New England and the first slaves of Virginia. The States And The Nation...
by Stan Banash
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Did you know that Chicago was named for a wild onion? Or that the only president born in Illinois was Ronald Reagan? Or that the Ferris Wheel, processed cheese, the game of softball, the fly swatter, and the automatic dishwasher were all invented by Illinoisans? You'll find these stories and hundreds...
The American Commonwealth
Vol. 2: The State Governments
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Professor Bryce's work rises at once to an eminent place among studies of great nations and their institutions. It is, so far as America goes, a work unique in scope, spirit, and knowledge. There is nothing like it anywhere extant, nothing that approaches it. Without exaggeration, it may be called...
The French Canadians of Michigan
Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Most information regarding the French Canadians in Michigan concerns those who settled during the French period. However, another significant migration occurred during the industrial period of the nineteenth century, when many French Canadians settled in the Saginaw Valley and on the Keweenaw Peninsula—two...
by Ben H. Procter
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo—Bowie, Travis, and Crockett—and the course and outcome of the battle itself. This concise...