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Honorable And Brilliant Labors, John D. Miller Jun 2024

Honorable And Brilliant Labors, John D. Miller

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A primary source collection that offers a window into the mind of nineteenth-century author and public intellectual, William Gilmore Simms.

William Gilmore Simms was in his lifetime considered the South's preeminent man of letters, and Edgar Allan Poe once claimed that Simms was "immeasurably the greatest writer of fiction in America." Best known as a poet, novelist, and editor, Simms was also a public intellectual who intended that his work shape public opinion and public discourse. In Honorable and Brilliant Labors, editor John D. Miller collects Simms's public orations, a body of literature that ranks among the least studied of …


El Paso Women’S History Coloring Book Volume Ii / Historia De Las Mujeres De El Paso: Cuaderno De Colorear Volumen Ii, El Paso Women’S History Coloring Book Committee Jan 2020

El Paso Women’S History Coloring Book Volume Ii / Historia De Las Mujeres De El Paso: Cuaderno De Colorear Volumen Ii, El Paso Women’S History Coloring Book Committee

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The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States. The El Paso Women’s History Coloring Book Volume II celebrates this anniversary and women’s achievements, while also acknowledging that much work still remains to be done regarding women’s and voting rights.

This new bilingual (Spanish and English) coloring book builds upon the El Paso Women’s History Coloring Book, published in March 1991. The original coloring book was created by Eva Ross, a retired teacher and former Equity Program Specialist of the Ysleta Independent School District. This second volume was developed as a free educational resource. …


History Of The Organization Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South: Comprehending All The Official Proceedings Of The General Conference; The Southern Annual Conferences, And The General Convention; With Such Other Matters As Are Necessary To A Right Understanding Of The Case, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2015

History Of The Organization Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South: Comprehending All The Official Proceedings Of The General Conference; The Southern Annual Conferences, And The General Convention; With Such Other Matters As Are Necessary To A Right Understanding Of The Case, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

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A History Of Canadian Studies At The University Of Maine, Robert H. Babcock Jan 2009

A History Of Canadian Studies At The University Of Maine, Robert H. Babcock

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The purpose of this book is to explain the development of the Canadian Studies program at the University of Maine from its origins in the early 20th century to its position today as the most comprehensive program of its kind in the United States. Readers will learn how Maine's close proximity to Canada has spawned an ever-widening range of cross-border academic contacts rooted in mutual interests that are reinforced by collaborative academic study, which is benefiting residents on both sides of the international boundary.


Freud's Dream Of Interpretation, Ken Frieden Jan 1990

Freud's Dream Of Interpretation, Ken Frieden

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Frieden explores methods of dream interpretation in the Bible, the Talmud, and in the writings of Sugmund Freud, and brings to light Freud's Troubled relationship to his Judaic forerunners. This book reveals unfamiliar associations in intellectual history and challenges received ideas in biblical, Talmudic, and Freudian scholarship.


Genocide And The Modern Age: Etiology And Case Studies Of Mass Death, Isidor Wallimann, Michael Dobkowski, Richard L. Rubenstein Jan 1987

Genocide And The Modern Age: Etiology And Case Studies Of Mass Death, Isidor Wallimann, Michael Dobkowski, Richard L. Rubenstein

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A Guide To The Secretariat Circulars: Kenya National Archives Microfilm, Robert G. Gregory, Richard E. Lewis Jan 1984

A Guide To The Secretariat Circulars: Kenya National Archives Microfilm, Robert G. Gregory, Richard E. Lewis

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The Secretariat Circulars are made up of five reels of microfilm that comprise Section 7, the last section of the Guide to the Kenya National Archives. Microfilm number: 2807.


Middle East In Crisis: A Historical And Documentary Review, Carol A. Fisher, Fred Krinsky Jan 1959

Middle East In Crisis: A Historical And Documentary Review, Carol A. Fisher, Fred Krinsky

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This book had its inception in a common teaching experience. Although it is now almost two years since we were first involved in the preparation of materials on the Middle East for a course in the problems of American democracy, world events continue to remind us of the critical importance of the Mediterranean area. Our students were aware of an increasing variety of proposals for the role the United States should play in easing the tensions in the Middle East, but they were relatively unfamiliar with the general history and geography of the area. Thus they were unable to evaluate …


Mao Tse-Tung And I Were Beggars, Yu Siao Jan 1959

Mao Tse-Tung And I Were Beggars, Yu Siao

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This book was written neither in admiration of a hero nor in condemnation of a bandit. I had neither object in view. Moreover, to my mind, the line of demarcation between the bandit and the hero is at times faint. No, in the following pages I have attempted merely to set down an accurate record of certain episodes in my life selected from the storehouse of memory as of certain interest to the public at large and in connection with current events in the Far East. More important than this, I feel it my duty, not only towards my own …