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The Path to a Modern South
Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Federal New Deal programs of the 1930s and World War II are often credited for transforming the South, including Texas, from a poverty-stricken region mired in Confederate mythology into a more modern and economically prosperous part of the United States. By contrast, this history of Northeast Texas,...
by Jamil Ammar, Songhua Xu
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities. The authors investigate the use of religion to advance political agendas and the...
by William Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an accident of fate brought the armies of Lee and Grant together there. It is that Appomattox--the typical small Confederate community--that William...
Reclaiming Hope
Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Now with a new afterword from the author. "An important and extremely timely book...Get it, read it, and talk to others about it." --Timothy Keller
In this unvarnished account of faith inside the world’s most powerful office, Michael Wear provides unprecedented insight into the...
Courage to Stand
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Long before he was considered a top prospective presidential candidate for 2012—even before he landed on John McCain’s short list of potential running mates in 2008—Governor Tim Pawlenty had already earned legendary status in conservative circles. In his hard-left-leaning home state of Minnesota,...
God's Politics
Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
New York Times bestseller God's Politics struck a chord with Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics, and with the Left, who were mute on the subject. Jim Wallis argues that America's separation of church and state does not...
The Abominations of the Obama-Nation
The Audacity of Ruthless Ambitions Vs. the Hope of God’S Assurance
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Some people use the poor, minorities, and special interest groups as an excuse to take away rights from others who tend to be wealthy, white, or Christian or all of the above.
Betty Sue Prollock, a Christian and an American patriot, seeks to wake people up from their slumber and shine a spotlight...
by Carl Carmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Stars Fell on Alabama is truly a classic. The book enjoyed enormous popularity and notoriety when it was first published (it was a selection of The Literary Guild and also sold widely in Europe). It can be described as a book of folkways—not journalism, or history, or a novel. At times it is...
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God
Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection of essays on the religious communication of members of the Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning, and in their public and private writing. While many books on the market address issues at the intersection...
by Wallace O. Chariton, Kevin Young, Charlie Eckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1992
What happened to the documents captured in the Alamo? Does a ghost actually haunt the state capitol in Austin? Was John Wilkes Booth killed or did he escape and flee to Central Texas? The authors present the known facts and circumstances of these and other mysteries.
A World Engraved
Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people.
The Swift Creek people, centered in Georgia and surrounding states from A.D. 100 to 700, are best known from...
In the Shadow of the Dam
The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. In just thirty minutes, the Mill River flood left 139 people dead and 740 homeless -- and a nation...
by Stephen Kantrowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Through the life of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918), South Carolina's self-styled agrarian rebel, this book traces the history of white male supremacy and its discontents from the era of plantation slavery to the age of Jim Crow.
As an anti-Reconstruction guerrilla, Democratic activist, South...
Toward an Ethic of Citizenship
Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2000
The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as "phonegate", that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990's in which a number of legislators were found to have been abusing their phone privileges. The hubris of the legislature in response to the discovery of...