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by John R. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004
The American cowboy is a mythical character who refuses to die, says author John R. Erickson. On the one hand he is a common man: a laborer, a hired hand who works for wages. Yet in his lonely struggle against nature and animal cunning, he becomes larger than life. Who is this cowboy? Where did he come...
Original Sinners
A New Interpretation of Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In this vivid, original interpretation of Genesis, former Episcopal priest John R. Coats takes readers on a journey through the ancient text, inviting them to see its characters in a new light, not as religious icons, but as people whose day-to-day concerns, triumphs, and failures are like our own.
In...
The American Slave-Trade
An Account of Its Origin, Growth and Suppression
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
First published in the year 1900, American journalist, naval historian and author John R. Spears’ book tells the story of American slave trading, from its early beginnings in 1619 to its end with the hanging of the last slaver in 1862. In this carefully researched history, Spears vividly recounts...
by Jeffery Farnol, Stephen W. Meader, Benjamin Barker
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
A collection of some of the world's most beloved pirate stories with an active table of contents.Works include:"Black Bartlemy's Treasure" by Jeffery Farnol"The Black Buccaneer" by Stephen W. Meader "Blackbeard" by Benjamin Barker"Blackbeard: Buccaneer" Ralph D. Paine"Captain Blood" by Rafael...
by John R. Carling
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Shadow of the Czar. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by John R....
The Men Who Made the Constitution
Lives of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated the debates, the exchanges were also shaped by the dynamic personalities of the fifty-five delegates...
by John R. Vile
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A document that is well past two centuries old, the U.S. Constitution remains as relevant and important today as during the time of our country's founding. Now in its sixth edition, this single-volume work offers a fair, non-partisan treatment of one of the most important documents in American history....
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic
The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic
In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world’s harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade,...
by John R. Maass
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
In 1781, Virginia was invaded by formidable British forces that sought to subdue the Old Dominion. Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis, led thousands of enemy troops from Norfolk to Charlottesville, burning and pillaging. Many of Virginia's famed Patriots--including George Washington, Thomas...
Shakespeare the Man
New Decipherings
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of restricting the search for bits and...
Gettysburg Redux
Rebel Empire, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Veteran Confederate Sergeant Ben Gallows has lived through the blood and terror of the first two years of the American Civil War, but nothing in that period could have prepared him for the madness and chaos of Gettysburg. Under attack by both the Yankees and enemies from within his own regiment will...
Granbury's Texas Brigade
Diehard Western Confederates
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
John R. Lundberg's compelling new military history chronicles the evolution of Granbury's Texas Brigade, perhaps the most distinguished combat unit in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Named for its commanding officer, Brigadier General Hiram B. Granbury, the brigade fought tenaciously in the western...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa
Dialogues between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....