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by Marc O. DeGirolami
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Legal scholars expect to resolve religious dilemmas according to principles of equality, neutrality, or separation of church and state. But such abstractions fail to do justice to the clashing values in today’s pluralistic society. Marc DeGirolami explains why conflicts implicating religious liberty are so emotionally fraught and deeply contested.
by Andrea Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The Globalist Party exposes in this Manifesto its view of history and its project: delete all state sovereignties to build a world empire respectful of human rights.
The Sawners of Chandler
A Pioneering Power Couple in Pre-Civil Rights Oklahoma
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Juxtaposed against the grim realities of black life at the turn of the twentieth century, the lives of George and Lena Sawner shone like the blazing sun on an oven-hot August day in Oklahoma. Educated, professional, and economically stable—well-off by most standards—the Sawners lived the American...
by Elizabeth K. Goetsch
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
While known for the twang of its country music, Nashville is also home to a colorful and salacious past. The earliest settlers to lay claim to the land surrounding Nashville brought with them betrayal, murder and thievery. As the city grew, authorities unsuccessfully attempted to outlaw and remove...
It Happened in North Carolina, 2nd
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the Tar Heel State, It Happened in North Carolina describes everything from one of the first incidences of American resistance against British rule to a courageous milestone in the civil rights movement.
The Medicine of Memory
A Mexica Clan in California
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
"People who live in California deny the past," asserts Alejandro Murgua. In a state where "what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo," no one has "the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened...
Inside Texas
Culture, Identity and Houses, 1878–1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
“Inside Texas: Culture, Identity and Houses, 1878–1920” is a 464 page book with 296 photos that tests and rejects the notion that Texas homes, like all things Texan, were unique and different. Over the 40 year time span covered by the book, decorating ideas nationally and in Texas went...
Outlaw Tales of Idaho
True Stories of the Gem State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Idaho. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the Rocky Mountain's most infamous reprobates.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
From Kanorado to Pawnee villages, Kansas is a land rich in archaeological sites—nearly 12,000 known—that testify to its prehistoric heritage. This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of Kansas archaeology in nearly fifty years, containing the most current descriptions and interpretations...
History of Texas Christian University
A College of the Cattle Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
First published by TCU Press in 1947, Colby Hall’s book History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier is the story of the first seventy-five years of the institution. Tracing the evolution of Add Ran College to Add Ran University, and ultimately to Texas Christian University,...
by Shannon Lee Dawdy, Martha Zierden, Bonnie L. Gums
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The rapid growth and development of urban areas in the South have resulted in an increase in the number of urban archaeology projects required by federal and state agencies. These projects provide opportunities not only to investigate marginal areas between the town and countryside but also to recover...
by Tracey Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Offering a one-of-a kind teaching resource for Texas history teachers, The Big Resource Guide to Teaching and Learning Texas History, by author and teacher Tracey Williams, includes everything to make Texas history come alive in the classroom.
The teaching units are aligned with the Texas Essential...
A Perfect War of Politics
Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Though antebellum Louisiana shared the rest of the South's commitment to slavery and cotton, the presence of a substantial sugarcane industry, large Creole and Catholic populations, numerous foreign and northern immigrants, and the immense city of New Orleans made it perhaps the most unsouthern of...
Religion and the Racist Right
The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian Identity. In Religion and the Racist Right (1994), Barkun provided the first sustained exploration of the ideological...