Spencer Polk was born of an African-Indian slave woman known as Sally, and her master, Taylor Polk, a descendant of one of America's first families and one of the earliest white settlers in the Arkansas Territory.
Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays?
It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would "e;cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song"e;-his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress-but he did much more than acquire songs.
During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin, dominated the pages of the "e;big slicks,"e; the Saturday Evening Post, LIFE, Harper's, Look, and Collier's.
In this biography of Algie Martin Simons, a major figure in the Socialist party of America, Kent and Gretchen Kreuter show the widely ranging social activities that brought Simons into touch with many of the movements and personalities of his time.
Southern Baptists had long considered themselves a missionary people, but when, after World War II, they embarked on a dramatic expansion of missionary efforts, they confronted headlong the problem of racism.
Bei Hitze, Hagel, Kälte oder Trockenheit, als Mittel zur Brandbekämpfung und Abwendung von Wassergefahren hielt man Hostien für allgegenwärtig und allmächtig.
In volume 5 of The Papers of Henry Clay, the second of the series to cover Clay's role as Secretary of State, problems arising from domestic political pressures become significant in the conduct of national affairs both at home and abroad.
When the private papers of Millard Fillmore, thought to have been destroyed in 1889, were discovered they proved to include a large number of letters to Fillmore from Dorothea Dix, the renowned crusader for the humane treatment of the insane.
La voluntad invicta es una memoria politica escrita por Jesus Zambrano Grijalva, en la que narra su transformacion ideologica: de joven guerrillero integrante de la Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre a dirigente del PRD y actor clave en la transicion democratica mexicana.
George Smitherman tells all about his successes and failures as a politician - in Ontario's legislature and in Toronto's city hall - and shares the joys and sorrows of his personal life.
Thomas Merton: Social Critic organizes and critically analyzes the social thought of the Cistercian monk who has become an internationally known symbol of the spiritual element in man.
This provocative study suggests that Pater, usually thought of as a florid prose stylist and second-rate adjunct to the Esthetic Movement, is, in reality, an articulate prophet of the twentieth century.
2014 Forest of Reading, White Pine Award - Winner, NonfictionThe true story of how a young Quebecois nun ended up a prisoner of war in Buchenwald and how her daughter discovered her secrets.
The Essential Cardinal Newman Collection: Prayers, Meditations, and Other Spiritual Writings brings together the most inspiring prayers and profound reflections of one of the greatest Catholic minds of modern times.
