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A Sermon Descriptive of the Life and Labors of the Rev. William Banks

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A Sermon Descriptive of the Life and Labors of the Rev. William Banks

By: James Spratt White

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385377897

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The Indians’ New World

Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal

By: James H. Merrell

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The Indians’ New World

Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal

By: James H. Merrell

This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance. Upon its original publication in 1989, James Merrell's definitive history of Catawbas and their neighbors in the southern piedmont helped signal a new direction in the study of Native Americans, serving as a model for their reintegration into American history. In an introduction written for this twentieth anniversary edition, Merrell recalls the book's origins and considers its place in the field of early American history in general and Native American history in particular, both at the time it was first published and two decades later.

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UNC Press Books

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0807838691

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9780807838693

Analytical Index to Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Volumes 1-36

By: James T. Bratcher

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Analytical Index to Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Volumes 1-36

By: James T. Bratcher

Hoping to become famous, Broderick practices on a tongue depressor to become the world's greatest surfing mouse.

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University of North Texas Press

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0870741357

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9780870741357

Lay Bare the Heart

An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement

By: James Farmer

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Lay Bare the Heart

An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement

By: James Farmer

Texas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten man of the movement, overshadowed by Martin Luther King Jr., who was deeply influenced by Farmer’s interpretation of Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent protest. Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920, the son of a preacher, Farmer grew up with segregated movie theaters and “White Only” drinking fountains. This background impelled him to found the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942. That same year he mobilized the first sit-in in an all-white restaurant near the University of Chicago. Under Farmer’s direction, CORE set the pattern for the civil rights movement by peaceful protests which eventually led to the dramatic “Freedom Rides” of the 1960s. In Lay Bare the Heart Farmer tells the story of the heroic civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. This moving and unsparing personal account captures both the inspiring strengths and human weaknesses of a movement beset by rivalries, conflicts and betrayals. Farmer recalls meetings with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson (for whom he had great respect), and Lyndon Johnson (who, according to Farmer, used Adam Clayton Powell Jr., to thwart a major phase of the movement). James Farmer has courageously worked for dignity for all people in the United States. In this book, he tells his story with forthright honesty. First published in 1985 by Arbor House, this edition contains a new foreword by Don Carleton, director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, and a new preface.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0875655203

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9780875655208

Blessed Experiences

Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black

By: James E. Clyburn

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Blessed Experiences

Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black

By: James E. Clyburn

“Shares lessons learned on his way from the Jim Crow South to a top spot on Capitol Hill . . . [a] remarkably candid new memoir” —NPR From his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina, to his prominence on the Washington, D.C., political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, US Congressman James E. Clyburn has led an extraordinary life. In Blessed Experiences, Clyburn tells in his own inspirational words how an African American boy from the Jim Crow-era South was able to beat the odds to achieve great success and become, as President Barack Obama describes him, “one of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens.” Born in 1940 to a civic-minded beautician and a fundamentalist minister, Clyburn began his ascent to leadership at the age of twelve, when he was elected president of his National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth chapter. He broke barriers through peaceful protests and steadfast beliefs in equality and justice. As a civil rights leader at South Carolina State College, as human affairs commissioner under John C. West and three subsequent governors, and as South Carolina’s first African American congressman since 1897, Clyburn has established a long and impressive record of public leadership and advocacy for human rights, education, historic preservation, and economic development. Includes a foreword from Emmy Award–winning actress and the congressman’s longtime friend Alfre Woodard “Blessed Experiences has captured not just the history of this tireless leader’s more-than-four decades in public service, but also a sense of the times.” —Warren Buffett

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611173388

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The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics

By: James M. Glaser

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The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics

By: James M. Glaser

div A central story of contemporary southern politics is the emergence of Republican majorities in the region’s congressional delegation. Acknowledging the significance and scope of the political change, James M. Glaser argues that, nevertheless, strands of continuity affect the practice of campaign politics in important ways. Strong southern tradition underlies the strategies pursued by the candidates, their presentational styles, and the psychology of their campaigns. The author offers eyewitness accounts of recent congressional campaigns in Texas, Mississippi, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. In the tradition of his award-winning book Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South, Glaser captures the “stuff” of politics—the characters, the images, the rhetoric, and the scenery. Painting a full and fascinating picture of what it is like on the campaign trail, Glaser provides wide-ranging insights into the ways that the “hand of the past” reaches into the southern present. /DIV

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Yale University Press

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0300132999

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9780300132991

Targeted: Beirut

By: Jack Carr,James M. Scott

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Targeted: Beirut

By: Jack Carr,James M. Scott

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut. 1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima, when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day. Now, the full story is revealed as never before by Jack Carr and historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott. Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries and photographs, this is the authoritative account of the deadly attack.

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Simon and Schuster

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1398540846

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To Face Down Dixie

South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights

By: James O. Heath

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To Face Down Dixie

South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights

By: James O. Heath

In an era during which the United States Supreme Court handed down some of its most important decisions, including Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Baker v. Carr (1962), and Miranda v. Arizona (1966), three senators from South Carolina—Olin Johnston, Strom Thurmond, and Ernest “Fritz” Hollings—waged war on the court’s progressive agenda by targeting the federal judicial nominations process. To Face Down Dixie explores these senators’ role in some of the most contentious confirmation battles in recent history, including those of Thurgood Marshall, Abe Fortas, and Clement Haynsworth. In scrutinizing Supreme Court nominees and attempting to restrict the power of the nine justices of the court, these senators defied not only the leadership of the Democratic Party but also the Senate traditions of hierarchy and seniority. Along with South Carolina’s conservative, segregationist political establishment, which maintained ironclad control over the state’s legislature, Johnston, Thurmond, and Hollings effectively drowned out the many moderate voices in South Carolina that remained critical of their obstructionism, thus advancing their own conservative credentials and boosting their chances of reelection. To Face Down Dixie examines for the first time the central role that South Carolina played in turning Supreme Court nomination hearings into confrontational and political public events. James O. Heath argues that the state’s war on the court concealed its antipathy to civil rights by using the confirmation process to challenge the court’s function as the final arbiter of policy on questions relating to law and order, obscenity, communist subversion, and school prayer. Heath’s study illustrates that while South Carolina’s history of “massive resistance” is less prominent than that of other states, its politicians acted as persistent antagonists in the complex and dramatic debates in the U.S. Senate during the era of civil rights.

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LSU Press

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0807168378

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Climate Action Upsurge

The Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics

By: Stuart Rosewarne,James Goodman,Rebecca Pearse

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Climate Action Upsurge

The Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics

By: Stuart Rosewarne,James Goodman,Rebecca Pearse

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of urgency and, despite consensus on the need for action, the growing failure of international climate policy engendered new political space for social movements. By 2007 a ‘climate justice’ movement was surfacing and developing a strong critique of existing official climate policies and engaging in new forms of direct action to assert the need for reduced extraction and burning of fossil fuels. Climate Action Upsurge offers an insight into this important period in climate movement politics, drawing on the perspectives of activists who were directly engaged in the mobilisation process. Through the interpretation of these perspectives the book illustrates important lessons for the climate movement today. In developing its examination of the climate action upsurge, the book focuses on individual activists involved in direct action ‘Climate Camps’ in Australia, while drawing comparisons and highlighting links with climate campaigns in other locales. The book should be of interest to scholars and researchers in climate change, environmental sociology, politics, policy and activism.

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Routledge

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1135071667

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The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul

Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected

By: James Smith

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The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul

Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected

By: James Smith

James Smith, an accomplished yachtsman, has given a narrative of Paul's voyage. He follows this with dissertations on the wind Euroclydon, the island Melita, the hips of the ancients, and geological changes in St. Paul's Bay. Six appendices and a general index conclude the book. Maps, engravings, an line drawings illustrate it.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1579107222

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The Doctrine of Equity. A Commentary on the Law as Administered by the Court of Chancery

By: John Adams,Alfred I. Phillips,George Tucker Bispham,John MacMinn Collins,Henry Wharton,George Sharswood,James Reily Ludlow

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The Doctrine of Equity. A Commentary on the Law as Administered by the Court of Chancery

By: John Adams,Alfred I. Phillips,George Tucker Bispham,John MacMinn Collins,Henry Wharton,George Sharswood,James Reily Ludlow

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385469406

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A Sermon Descriptive of the Life and Labors of the Rev. William Banks

A Sermon Descriptive of the Life and Labors of the Rev. William Banks

The Indians’ New World

The Indians’ New World

Analytical Index to Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Volumes 1-36

Analytical Index to Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Volumes 1-36

Lay Bare the Heart

Lay Bare the Heart

Blessed Experiences

Blessed Experiences

The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics

The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics

Targeted: Beirut

Targeted: Beirut

To Face Down Dixie

To Face Down Dixie

Climate Action Upsurge

Climate Action Upsurge

The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul

The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul

The Doctrine of Equity. A Commentary on the Law as Administered by the Court of Chancery

The Doctrine of Equity. A Commentary on the Law as Administered by the Court of Chancery

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