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by Judy Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Parallel Destinies is the North's history in a microcosm, from wilderness to modernization. Through Montenegrin fur trader John Hajdukovich, Swedish roadhouse owner Rika Wallen and Interior Natives, Alaska evolves from trail to highway, from runners to telegraph and telephone. Researched in Montenegro,...
The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law
Ninth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Much has changed in the area of school law since the first edition of The Educator’s Guide was published in 1986. This new ninth edition offers an authoritative source on all major dimensions of Texas school law through the 2017 legislative sessions. Intended for educators, school board members,...
by Allen Johnston Going
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Hailed as the definitive study of the subject when it appeared in 1951, Bourbon Democracy in Alabama analyzes and describes the state government of Alabama during the Bourbon Period as it operated under the Democratic and Conservative party. For this edition, the author has prepared a new foreword...
Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy
New Challenges for Society and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? What different forms of interactions between and negotiations of religion and religious beliefs can we see in contemporary society? What are the primary contenders in these interactions...
Mississippi Secrets
Facts, Legends, and Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Delve into the fascinating history of one of the South's greatest states with Mississippi Secrets: Facts, Legends, and Folklore. Authors Dr. Gary D. and Ruth A. McDowell offer an intriguing collection of little-known events in Mississippi's history.
Written in short, easy-to-read vignettes,...
It Happened in Indiana
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This book offers an inside look at over 25 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Hoosier State.
Into the West
The Story of Its People
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Acclaimed historian Walter Nugent brings us what is perhaps the most comprehensive and fascinating account to date of the peopling of the American West. In this epic social-demographic history, Nugent explores the populations of the West as they grow, change and intersect from the Paleo-Indians, the...
A Tree Accurst
Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a tree growing near the ruins of the old cabin was...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
A preface notes the scope of the work. The following 24 (ID'd as H__) heresies are amplified upon over 6 chapters, broken down into major denominations. An appendix lists the 24 heresies in order. H1: Established Church: A number of denominations in various places submit their communities to this...
Blasphemous Modernism
The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy--the rhetoric of religious offense--and to the specific...
A Hanging in Nacogdoches
Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870-1916
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
On October 17, 1902, in Nacogdoches, Texas, a black man named James Buchanan was tried without representation, condemned, and executed for the murder of a white family—all in the course of three hours. Two white men played pivotal roles in these events: Bill Haltom, a leading local Democrat and the...
Zeb Vance
North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized.
Vance...
Ivy and Industry
Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Emphasizing how profoundly the American research university has been shaped by business and the humanities alike, Ivy and Industry is a vital contribution to debates about the corporatization of higher education in the United States. Christopher Newfield traces major trends in the intellectual and...
Florida Place Names
Alachua to Zolfo Springs
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Many names of Florida places evoke fantastic images: Caloosahatchee, Okeechobee, Loxahatchee, Everglades, Miami—to mention only a few. Did you know that Florida's places were often named to honor prominent local citizens such as postmasters, landowners, or war heroes? Jacksonville, for example,...