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Turning the Tide
The University of Alabama in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book documents the period when a handful of University of Alabama student activists formed an alliance with President Frank A. Rose, his staff, and a small group of progressive-minded professors in order to transform the university during a time of social and political turmoil. Together they...
Faithful to Secularism
The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia to Latin America,...
Bat, Ball & Bible
Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, moral and social forces collided in the argument over upholding New York State's blue laws, meant to restrict social activities and maintain Sunday's traditional standing as a day of religious observation. Baseball was at the center of this...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Islam has become a potent political force around the world since it reemerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a religio-political alternative to failed nationalist ideologies. In countries throughout the world, individuals and movements have attempted to reconstruct the political, economic, and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the meaning of secularism. An under-examined issue is how religion figures in the decisions, actions and experiences...
A Knight of Another Sort
Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
In 1913 Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. He was charismatic, with an easygoing manner and a cavalier generosity that made him popular. The stuff of legend, he was part monster, part Robin Hood. In the early days, he would emerge from...
Kentucky Confederates
Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
During the Civil War, the majority of Kentuckians supported the Union under the leadership of Henry Clay, but one part of the state presented a striking exception. The Jackson Purchase -- bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River to the east...
by James W. Pohl
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Part of the inscription on the base of the San Jacinto Monument reads: "Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world." James W. Pohl, a noted military historian, tells the exciting story of the pivotal battle of the Texas Revolution.
Imperial Texas
An Interpretive Essay in Cultural Geography
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Imperial Texas examines the development of Texas as a human region, from the simple outline of the Spanish colony to the complex patterns of the modern state. In this study in cultural geography set into a historical framework, D. W. Meinig, professor of geography at Syracuse University, discusses the...
Did America Have a Christian Founding?
Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.
In 2010, David Mark Hall gave a lecture at the Heritage...
by Angela Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Winner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)
In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents...
Connecticut Town Greens
History of the State's Common Centers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The state of Connecticut has 170 town or village greens that still exist today. These greens date back to Colonial times where they served as the physical and spiritual centers for these early towns. Today many town greens continue to be the center of town events, fairs, and other gatherings. Connecticut...
by Sheval Anthony Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This publication builds on all efforts to date to achieve and are achieving global reach as God requires for and in “Serving all.”This publication builds on my hope of us all being established in and one with Christ in all the ways that fulfill righteousness; and on the hope we all with...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Should parents receive vouchers to send their children to religious schools? What limits -- if any -- should the government place on abortion? Should the government permit and fund stem cell research? Should religious organizations have the right to prohibit the employment of homosexuals? Should public...