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by Jeff Doles
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
GOD HAS ALWAYS DONE MIRACLES IN HIS CHURCH ~ AND STILL DOES!
The Holy Spirit has never left the Church and neither have His supernatural gifts and manifestations. They have been available in every century — from the days of the Apostolic Fathers, to the desert monks of Egypt asnd Syria,...
by J. Pringle Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
1689. State of Parties in Scotland Dalrymple's "Memoirs" The Convention of Estates Dalrymple's "Memoirs" Dundee's Rebellion Mackay's "Memoirs" The Battle of Killiecrankie Mackay's "Memoirs"
1690....
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens
A History of Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life." So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray their fellow Greeks to the enemy, the "barbarian"...
Making History
The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990: An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
When Making History was first published in 1992, the acclaimed oral historian Studs Terkel called it, “One of the definitive works on gay life.” Novelist Armistead Maupin said that author “Eric Marcus not only writes with grace and clarity but makes it look so easy—the ultimate measure of...
The History of the American Revolution
In Two Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1990
David Ramsay’s History of the American Revolution appeared in 1789 during an enthusiastic celebration of nationhood. It is the first American national history written by an American revolutionary and printed in America.
Ramsay, a well-known Federalist, was an active participant in many of...
A History of US: All the People
Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. A History of US is a 10-volume, award-winning series about the birth and development of the United States as related by master storyteller Joy Hakim. All the People, the last volume...
by José Peirats Valls
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
José Peirats’s La CNT en la revolución española is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when...
Schoolbook Nation
Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back to almost the beginning of the republic. Moreau's writing is engaging, with brilliant flashes of insight, as well as balance and wit."
-Gary B....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A guide to the history that informs the world of Star Trek?just in time for the next JJ Abrams Star Trek movie
For a series set in our future, Star Trek revisits the past constantly. Kirk and Spock battle Nazis, Roman gladiators, and witness the Great Depression. When they're not doubling back...
Knowing History in Mexico
An Ethnography of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
While much has been written about national history and citizenship, anthropologist Trevor Stack focuses on the history and citizenship of towns and cities. Basing his inquiry on fieldwork in west Mexican towns near Guadalajara, Stack begins by observing that people talked (and wrote) of their towns’...
Prophets of the Past
Interpreters of Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for so many different ideological and political purposes as the Jews. He...
by Philip Schaff
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
As I appear before The public with a new edition of my Church History, I feel more than ever The difficulty and responsibility of a task which is well worthy to occupy The whole time and strength of a long life, and which carries in it its own rich reward. The true historian of Christianity is yet...
Who Owns History?
Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
A thought-provoking new book from one of America's finest historians
"History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled...
Past Imperfect
Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today." He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity:...