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Book Review Of At Peace And Unafraid: Public Order, Security, And The Wisdom Of The Cross, Ron Mock
Book Review Of At Peace And Unafraid: Public Order, Security, And The Wisdom Of The Cross, Ron Mock
Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics
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Jeffersonian Walls And Madisonian Lines: The Supreme Court’S Use Of History In Religion Clause Cases, Mark Hall
Jeffersonian Walls And Madisonian Lines: The Supreme Court’S Use Of History In Religion Clause Cases, Mark Hall
Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics
In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Justice Wiley Rutledge observed that '[n]o provision of the Constitution is more closely tied to or given content by its generating history than the religious clause of the First Amendment. It is at once the refined product and the terse summation of that history.' Scholars and activists argue about the relevance or irrelevance of the Supreme Court’s use of history in general, and the extent to which Justices are good historians. These debates have been particularly furious with respect to the Court’s use of history in religion clause cases. Although broad claims are …
Trade (Chapter 2 Of The Dutch-Munsee Encounter In America: The Struggle For Sovereignty In The Hudson Valley), Paul Otto
Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics
"Just as word of Hudson's arrival must have spread among the Indians, so too did news of his discovery spread in Europe. Motivated by the 1deals of material acquisition and driven by economic forces in Europe, Dutch merchants in Amsterdam wasted no time in dispatching trade expeditions after learning of the newly discovered lands and the valuable supply of furs in the Hudson River region. The Munsees, already engaged in trade with other native peoples throughout northeastern North America, welcomed the new source and availability of goods and provided a nexus through which Europeans would have access to Indian markets …
Apt Pupil: Dwight Eisenhower And The 1930 Industrial Mobilization Plan, Kerry Irish
Apt Pupil: Dwight Eisenhower And The 1930 Industrial Mobilization Plan, Kerry Irish
Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics
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Review Of Merwick's "The Shame And The Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters In New Netherland", Paul Otto
Review Of Merwick's "The Shame And The Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters In New Netherland", Paul Otto
Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics
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The British Church And The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms To C.620 (Chapter Four Of The Celtic And Roman Traditions: Conflict And Consensus In The Early Medieval Church), Caitlin Corning
Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics
Excerpt: "At the same time that Columbanus was establishing his monasteries in Merovingian Gaul, Pope Gregory the Great began planning a mission to convert the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms located in present-day England. The pope wrote to leading Merovingians such as Brunhild asking for their support in this endeavor and to provide whatever aid was necessary for the missionaries. In 596, Augustine (597–604/10), future bishop of Canterbury, and his party departed Italy for the north, traveling through the Merovingian kingdoms to Kent where the papal mission established their headquarters at the old Roman town of Canterbury (map 4.1).
In the first years …