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How the Slaves Saw the Civil War

Recollections of the War through the WPA Slave Narratives

By: Herbert C. Covey,Dwight Eisnach

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How the Slaves Saw the Civil War

Recollections of the War through the WPA Slave Narratives

By: Herbert C. Covey,Dwight Eisnach

Drawing from narratives of former slaves to provide accurate and poignant insights, this book presents descriptions in the former slaves' own words about their lives before, during, and following the Civil War. Examining narratives allows us to better understand what life was truly like for slaves: "hearing" history in their own words brings the human aspects of slavery and their interpersonal relationships to life, providing insights and understanding not typically available via traditional history books. How the Slaves Saw the Civil War: Recollections of the War through the WPA Slave Narratives draws upon interviews collected largely during the 1930s–1940s as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Because most slaves could not read or write, their perspective on the unfolding history of the war has been relatively unknown until these narratives were collected in the 1930s and 1940s. This book extracts the most cogent and compelling tales from the documentation of former slaves' seldom-heard voices on the events leading up to, during, and following the war. The work's two introductory chapters focus on the WPA's narratives and living conditions under slavery. The remaining chapters address key topics such as slave loyalties to either or both sides of the conflict, key battles, participation in the Union and/or Confederate armies, the day Union forces came, slave contact with key historical figures, and emancipation—and what came after.

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369

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216099307

Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

By: Dwight F. Reynolds

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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

By: Dwight F. Reynolds

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.

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350

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Cornell University Press

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1501723235

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9781501723230

Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George A. Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

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Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George A. Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

This book of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi includes a total of 166 figures, all who have made significant contributions. Black history makers are defined herein as those who have achieved national prominence in their fields, who have made lasting contributions within the state as pioneers in their fields, or who contributed to their own communities or fields as role models. Each of those included in the book either was born in Mississippi, spent a part of their childhood there, or migrated to Mississippi and remained. History makers covered include Hiram R. Revels, the first Black US Senator; Blanche K. Bruce, the first Black US Senator to serve a six-year term; political and civil rights leaders such as Aaron Henry, Medgar Evers, and Fannie Lou Hamer; William Johnson, a free Black man from antebellum Natchez; Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T. Washington; Walter Payton, former running back for the Chicago Bears; and contributors to arts and letters such as Leontyne Price, William Grant Still, Margaret Walker Alexander, James Earl Jones, and “Bo Diddley” McDaniel, a pioneer rock-and-roll musician; as well as other notable Black Mississippians. The book is organized into ten thematic sections: politics, civil rights, business, education, performing and visual arts, journalism and literature, military, science/medicine/social work, sports, and religion. And each section is introduced by an historical overview of this field in the state of Mississippi. This book is a valuable reference work for those wishing to assess the contributions of African Americans to the history of Mississippi. Of particular significance is the fact that it is a collection which brings attention to lesser-known figures as well as those of considerable renown.

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512

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1628469765

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9781628469769

The Way To God

Moody Classics Series

By: Dwight L. Moody

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The Way To God

Moody Classics Series

By: Dwight L. Moody

GOD DID NOT MEAN FOR SALVATION TO BE A DEEP, COMPLICATED SUBJECT MAN COULD NOT UNDERSTAND. But sometimes man's words confuse God's simple truths. D. L. Moody, one of the nineteenth century's greatest evangelists, shows how simple salvation is. He doesn't use heavy philosophy, but simply shows "the way to God." The Way to God is filled with stories about ordinary people. Anyone willing to have honest questions and doubts answered will find answers here. Who is Christ? How can I know my sins have been forgiven? What can I do if I have turned away from God? What is repentance? These are important questions, and D. L. Moody answers them from God's Word. More than 1 million copies of this classic work have been distributed since it was first published in 1894.

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Moody Publishers

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0802488455

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9780802488459

All Faithful People

Change and Continuity in Middletown's Religion

By: Theodore Caplow,Howard M. Bahr,Bruce A. Chadwick,Dwight W. Hoover

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All Faithful People

Change and Continuity in Middletown's Religion

By: Theodore Caplow,Howard M. Bahr,Bruce A. Chadwick,Dwight W. Hoover

All Faithful People was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In 1924 Robert and Helen Lynd went to Middletown (Muncie, Indiana) to study American institutions and values. The results of their work are the classic studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). In the late 1970s a team of social scientists returned to Middletown to gauge the changes that have taken place in the fifty years since the Lynds' first visit. The Middletown III Project, by replicating the earlier work, in some cases by using the same questions, provides an unprecedented portrait of a small American town as it adapts to changing times. Its first report, Middletown Families, was published by Minnesota in 1982. This book explores the role of religion in the life of Middletown. Using the Lynds' magnificent cache of empirical data as a base, social scientists on the Middletown III Project attempted to gauge how religious beliefs and practices have changed. For the most part, their findings show that the current perception of a trend toward a more secular society is not true. In Middletown, religion seems to be more important than ever. All Faithful People also covers the history of Middletown's churches, the differences between the town's Protestants and Catholics, religious participation among young people, and the role in Middletown life of private devotions and public rituals. In conclusion, the authors of All Faithful People evaluate Middletown as a representative community. They attempt to explain the myth of the death of organized religion, and briefly compare religion in America to religion in other Western countries. Fifty years after the Lynds first made Middletown famous, a team of social scientists returned to find out how American values have changed. This, their second report, focuses on religion. What does religion mean to Middletown today? Has America become a secular society? Those are some of the questions discussed in All Faithful People.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816657203

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9780816657209

The American Scholar Reader

By: Dwight Waldo

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The American Scholar Reader

By: Dwight Waldo

To celebrate The American Scholar's thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include the best essays that appeared throughout the life of one of the leading publications of the country. The editors give a picture of the changing intellectual climate and emphasis from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. The collection illustrates the unusually wide range and diversity of the regular subject matter of The American Scholar. This work is once again brought to public attention a half century later, and this edition includes a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz.Haydn and Saunders chose essays that were of supreme quality; those included were among the best of several hundred published. They focused on a diversity of subject matter as well as a selection representative of the different interests stressed in the magazine's history. These pieces reflect the prevailing intellectual and cultural currents of fifty years earlier. The American Scholar Reader then, as now, focuses on themes of economics, religion, psychology, social and cultural matters, ecology, and the importance of conservation.Some of the major contributors and essays herein included are: 'The Germans: Unhappy Philosophers in Politics,' Reinhold Niebuhr; 'The Challenge of Our Times,' Harold J. Laski; 'The Problem of the Liberal Arts College,' John Dewey; 'The Retort Circumstantial,' Jacques Barzun; 'Freud, Religion, and Science,' David Riesman; 'Three American Philosophers,' George Santayana; 'Christian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature,' Edmund Wilson; 'The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt,' Richard Hofstadter; 'The Present Human Condition,' Erich Fromm; 'Our Documentary Culture,' Margaret Mead; and 'Equality America's Deferred Commitment,' C. Vann Woodward.

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543

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Routledge

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1351486004

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9781351486002

Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George Alexander Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

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Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George Alexander Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

A well-researched collection of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617034282

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9781617034282

Genesis 1-2-3

By: Dwight O. Troyer

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Genesis 1-2-3

By: Dwight O. Troyer

Troyer uses his study of Genesis to prove to the Jewish people and the rest of the world that Jesus is the Anointed One. No other person fulfills the interwoven complexities of the living Word of God. (Christian)

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Xulon Press

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1604771372

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9781604771374

Great Horned Owl

By: Dwight G. Smith

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Great Horned Owl

By: Dwight G. Smith

A complete natural history of the species, in straightforward text and brilliant color photographs.

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116

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Stackpole Books

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0811726894

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9780811726894

The History of the Descendants of John Dwight

Vol. II

By: Benjamin Dwight

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The History of the Descendants of John Dwight

Vol. II

By: Benjamin Dwight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368833626

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9783368833626

Jurisprudence for a Free Society

Studies in Law, Science, and Policy

By: Harold Dwight Lasswell,Myres Smith Macdougal

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Jurisprudence for a Free Society

Studies in Law, Science, and Policy

By: Harold Dwight Lasswell,Myres Smith Macdougal

Jurisprudence For a Free Society" is a remarkable contribution to legal theory. In its comprehensiveness and systematic elaboration, it stands among the major theories. It is also the most important jurisprudential statement to emerge in the post-war period. The pioneering work of Lasswell and McDougal on law and policy is already legendary. Most of the work produced by these scholars together and in collaboration with their students represent applications of their basic theory to a wide assortment of international and national legal and policy problems. Now, for the first time, the authoritative statement of their legal philosophy appears as a single volume. In Part I the authors develop their fundamental criteria for a theory about law, including the requirements of clarifying observational standpoint, focus of inquiry and the pertinent intellectual tasks incumbent on the scholar and decisionmaker for determining and achieving common interests. Trends in theories about law, including Natural Law, the Historical School, Positivism, the Sociological Study of Law, American Legal Realism and other contemporary theories, are explored for what they might contribute to the achievement to the authors' conception of an adequate jurisprudence. In Part II, the social process as a whole and the particular value-institutional processes that comprise it are described and analyzed. Because people establish, maintain and change institutions, the dynamics of personality and personality's relation to law is delineated. Part III explores the intellectual tasks of policy thinking, from clarification of values, through description of trend, the scientific examination of conditions, projection of futuredevelopments and the invention of alternatives. Part IV examines the structure of decision in a free society, a society in which the achievement of human dignity is confirmed in both word and deed. Six appendices bring together monographs by the authors over a period of forty years which deal, in more detail, with particular matters treated in the body of the book.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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0792309898

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9780792309895

Becoming of Two Minds about Liberalism

A Chronicle of Philosophical and Moral Development

By: Dwight R. Boyd

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Becoming of Two Minds about Liberalism

A Chronicle of Philosophical and Moral Development

By: Dwight R. Boyd

Integrating scholarly essays and personal reflections, Becoming of Two Minds chronicles a unique philosophical odyssey, a developmental journey of coming to recognize the inadequacy of liberalism in the face of some egregious social problems such as racism, while also appreciating its strengths. A Personal Prologue describing the main intellectual influences on the author locates the origins of the journey and functions as a backdrop for its interpretation. Fifteen chronologically organized essays, divided into three parts, identify significant positions of contrast between the two minds, establishing the direction of the journey and indications of change. Essays in Part I reflect early allegiance to liberalism and explore its core ideas as they should be interpreted to guide moral education. Those in Part II express disaffection with that allegiance, taking a distinctly critical stance toward liberalism. Part III then consists of essays that represent attempts to come to terms with the becoming of two minds exemplified in the tension between the ideas about liberalism expressed in Parts I and II. A Personal Preface also introduces each of the fifteen essays. These Prefaces address questions such as why the problem of the essay was chosen, why it was approached in a particular way, and what place the essay assumes in the direction the author’s journey takes.

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Springer

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9463003193

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9789463003193

A Buddhist Bible

By: Dwight Goddard

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A Buddhist Bible

By: Dwight Goddard

A wide selection of readings from Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, and modern sources inteded to provide the reader with a foundation in classical Buddhist thought.

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Beacon Press

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0807059110

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9780807059111

Book's by Dwight Young

How the Slaves Saw the Civil War

How the Slaves Saw the Civil War

Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

Mississippi Black History Makers

Mississippi Black History Makers

The Way To God

The Way To God

All Faithful People

All Faithful People

The American Scholar Reader

The American Scholar Reader

Mississippi Black History Makers

Mississippi Black History Makers

Genesis 1-2-3

Genesis 1-2-3

Great Horned Owl

Great Horned Owl

The History of the Descendants of John Dwight

The History of the Descendants of John Dwight

Jurisprudence for a Free Society

Jurisprudence for a Free Society

Becoming of Two Minds about Liberalism

Becoming of Two Minds about Liberalism

A Buddhist Bible

A Buddhist Bible

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