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Speaking American
A History of English in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's...
Embarcadero
True Tales of Sea Adventure from 1849 to 1906
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
There are no tales like high-sea tales and here’s a baker’s dozen of true sea adventures—tales filled with salt spray, blood-and-thunder, and man-overboard action all guaranteed to satisfy the hardiest armchair adventurer.
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by Adrian J Ebell
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
A Brief history of the Indian uprising and depredations in Minnesota during 1862.
by Mary Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
. THE THREE SHIPS SAIL II. THE ADVENTURERS III. JAMESTOWN IV. JOHN SMITH V. THE SEA ADVENTURE VI. SIR THOMAS DALE VII. YOUNG VIRGINIA VIII. ROYAL GOVERNMENT IX. MARYLAND X. CHURCH AND KINGDOM XI. COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION XII. NATHANIEL BACON XIII. REBELLION AND CHANGE XIV. THE CAROLINAS XV. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD XVI. GEORGIA
by John Austin Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A short piece that describes Old Time Taverns in New York city from the time of the founding by the Dutch to the American Revolution.
John Austin Stevens Jr. (1827–1910) was a leader of business, an adviser of government and a student of the American Revolution. His was the founder of the Sons of the Revolution.
God and Empire
Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
At the heart of the Bible is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they are Babylon, Rome, or even America.
From the divine punishment and promise found in Genesis through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, John Dominic Crossan reveals what the Bible has to...
The Way to the Spring
Life and Death in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life
Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest...
Where God Was Born
A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible and Abraham, travels ten thousand miles through the heart of the Middle East—Israel, Iraq, and Iran—and examines the question: Is religion...
The Myth of a Christian Nation
How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of...
Inventing a Christian America
The Myth of the Religious Founding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation....
by Eran Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times through about 1830, numerous American politicians, commentators, ministers,...
by Mark David Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention. As a Representative and Senator in the new republic, he had a hand in determining the proper scope of the...
Miracles of the American Revolution
Divine Intervention and the Birth of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Was the birth of the Republic an accident of history or part of a divine plan?Is God on America's side?Is it possible a providential hand intervened at critical junctures during the American Revolution?Larkin Spivey, a decorated Marine Corps officer and respected military professor,...
Beleaguered Winchester
A Virginia Community at War, 1861--1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
During the Civil War, the strategically located town of Winchester, Virginia, suffered from the constant turmoil of military campaigning perhaps more than any other town. Occupied dozens of times by alternating Union and Confederate forces, Winchester suffered through three major battles, including...