Thomas S : 567 books
The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves
Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential...
by Thomas S. Hischak
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Animation has been a staple of the filmmaking process since the early days of cinema. Animated shorts had been produced for decades, but not until 1937 did a major studio venture into animated features when Walt Disney produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Of the hundreds of animated feature films...
1939
Hollywood's Greatest Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
What do Babes in Arms, Beau Geste, Gunga Din, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Only Angels Have Wings, and Young Mr. Lincoln all have in common? They are all classic films released in the same year, but none of them received Academy Award nominations for best picture. Why? In that same year, Hollywood...
Patrick Henry
First Among Patriots
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Most Americans know Patrick Henry as a fiery speaker whose pronouncement Give me liberty or give me death!” rallied American defiance to the British Crown. But Henry's skills as an orator-sharpened in the small towns and courtrooms of colonial Virginia-are only one part of his vast, but largely...
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Benjamin Franklin
The Religious Life of a Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin’s faith Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin...
by Thomas S. Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing...
by Thomas S. Weinberg, Professor Gerhard J. falk, Dr. Ursula Adler Falk
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The American Drug Culture uses sociological and other perspectives to examine drug and alcohol use in U.S. society. The text is arranged topically, rather than by categories of drugs, and explores diverse contexts of drug use including popular culture; sexuality; the legal and criminal justice systems;...
by Thomas S. Monson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
President Thomas S. Monson expounds upon these questions in light of modern revelation and scriptures to help us separate truth from trivia and embrace an eternal perspective of our Heavenly Father's plan. This is a comforting reacquaintance with vital doctrines of the Lord's restored gospel.
The Unchained: Powerful Life Stories of Former Slaves
Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Narratives of Former Slaves (Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement)
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including numerous recorded testimonies, life stories and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick...
BURIED ALIVE BEHIND PRISON WALLS
The Inside Story of Jackson State Prison from the Eyes of a Former Slave Who Was Punished for Killing a White Man in Self Defence (Black History Series)
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: “BURIED ALIVE BEHIND PRISON WALLS” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Walker was an African American man who was sold again and again to different slave owners and had to flee to Canada to realise his dreams of...
by Cecilia Tan, Thomas S. Roche, Arinn Dembo
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The best erotic science fiction and fantasy as determined by the annual contest run by Circlet Press. Rewarding originality and positive sensuality, the contest inspires well-known and unknown writers alike to excel in this provocative genre. Erotic sf/f combines erotic and sexual themes with magic,...
1927
A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Jazz Age's Greatest Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2019
The first solo transatlantic flight. The release of the first talking picture. The invention of the jukebox. These are just a handful of milestones that occurred in one momentous year. In a decade of historic firsts, 1927 stands out as the peak year of the Roaring Twenties, a span of time in which...
by Thomas S. Hischak
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
For more than five decades, Woody Allen has been one of the most critically acclaimed talents in American cinema. Allen has been nominated for best director seven times by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—winning for his 1977 film Annie Hall—and he has received more Oscar nominations...