Akenson argues that, despite the popular conception of the Irish as a city people, those who settled in Ontario were primarily rural and small-town dwellers.
The "e;First Lady of American Folklore"e; explores the supernatural side of the Civil War with chilling tales of spectral soldiers and haunted battlefields.
The South Caroliniana Library, located on the historic Horseshoe of the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia, is one of the premier research archives and special collections repositories in South Carolina and the American Southeast.
In Daily Devotions for Advent 2019, the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles share their distinctive spirituality, which seamlessly blends contemplative lives of prayer with active ministry in schools, healthcare centers, and retreat houses.
Let the Apostleship of Prayer (The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network) be your guide during Lent by helping you deepen your prayer life in the most solemn season of the year.
In Daily Devotions for Advent 2019, the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles share their distinctive spirituality, which seamlessly blends contemplative lives of prayer with active ministry in schools, healthcare centers, and retreat houses.
West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba seeks to explain how a series of historical events that occurred in West Africa from the mid-1790s - including Afonja's rebellion, the Owu wars, the Fulani-led jihad, and the migrations to Egbaland - had an impact upon life in cities and plantations in western Cuba and Bahia.
Collected letters of a Confederate officer and his family detail daily life and loss on the battlefieldHope, sacrifice, and restoration: throughout the American Civil War and its aftermath, the Foster family endured all of these in no small measure.
The Making of Barack Obama: The Politics of Persuasion provides the first comprehensive treatment of why Obama's rhetorical strategies were so effective during the 2008 presidential campaign, during the first four years of his presidency, and once again during the 2012 presidential campaign.
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr.
The social critic and Set the Night on Fire co-author tackles the fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this 2007 collection of radical essays.
A unique visual account: "e;The hour-by-hour maps of the maneuvering and fighting provide the clearest cartographic picture of the battle in existence.
Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture.
A study of the man who led the Supreme Court as the nineteenth century ended and the twentieth began, exploring issues of property, government authority, and more.
In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South.
This book was developed to present factual information as delineated by the title:The United States of AmericaThe Most Successful Nation and People of AllThe 1620 Mayflower Pilgrims Began it, with Freedom for People and the Free Market;The Constitution Defined It with Law, Success Reigned.
Award-winning journalist and popular blogger Deacon Greg Kandra accompanies you in prayer and reflection through the busy days and long nights of the Advent season to help you spiritually prepare for Christmas.
This powerful Lenten prayer book from the Apostleship of Prayer (The Popes Worldwide Prayer Network) engages and inspires readers with the Churchs daily scripture readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, introducing Catholics and other Christians to the traditional spiritual devotion known aslectio divina, or ';sacred reading,' in a new way.
In Maya Roads, McConahay draws upon her three decades of traveling and living in Central America's remote landscapes to create a fascinating chronicle of the people, politics, archaeology, and species of the Central American rainforest, the cradle of Maya civilization.
Since Britain's occupation of Cyprus in 1878 and the fall of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, ethnic rivalry has dominated the island's divided history.
The Black WashingtoniansTHE ANACOSTIA MUSEUM ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGYA history of African American life in our nation's capital, in words and picturesFrom the Smithsonian Institution's renowned Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture comes this elegantly illustrated, beautifully written, fact-filled history of the African Americans who have lived, worked, struggled, prospered, suffered, and built a vibrant community in Washington, D.
This uplifting prayer book for Advent and the Christmas season from the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Networkan international ecclesial ministry served by the Jesuitsengages you with the Church's daily scripture readings and incorporates the Pope's monthly prayer intentions for groups across the globe.
In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence.
The South Carolina Historical Marker Program, established in 1936, has approved the installation of more than 1,700 interpretive plaques, each highlighting how places both grand and unassuming have played important roles in the history of the Palmetto State.
This work provides a revealing look at the history of Hispanic peoples in the American West (or, from the Mexican perspective, El Norte) from the period of Spanish colonization through the present day.
