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John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary, and the First Three Generations of Their Descendants, 2nd Edition

By: John D. Glenn Jr.

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John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary, and the First Three Generations of Their Descendants, 2nd Edition

By: John D. Glenn Jr.

John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary grew up in Laurens County, South Carolina. They married in 1807, then moved to Indiana. They later returned to the South, and settled in Lawrence County, Alabama. After Elizabeth's death, John Brown (who was an uncle of General Ambrose Burnside) moved to Warren County, Illinois, where he remarried, and spent the rest of his life. John and Elizabeth's descendants included doctors and lawyers, farmers and ranchers, soldiers, bankers, scientists, and engineers. Many bore other surnames-among them Dobbins, Cogdell, Wilson, Dandridge, Otwell, Davidson, and Glenn. They were a varied and mobile family, whose lives were intertwined with many major events of American history-the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the westward movement of the American population, and the nation's transformation from an agrarian and rural to a more industrialized and urban society. This book makes use of a variety of sources, including previously unpublished correspondence, to tell their story.

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1365003477

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9781365003479

Tell El-Hesi

The Site and the Expedition

By: John Wilson Betlyon

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Tell El-Hesi

The Site and the Expedition

By: John Wilson Betlyon

In 1970, The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi, sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research and a consortium of educational institutions, entered the site with the objectives of investigating in greater detail and with more refined methods the stratigraphic divisions identified by Petrie and Bliss. This book appears as the fourth volume in the Joint Expedition's series of final publications regarding their field experience and findings. The Joint Expedition had its first field season in June 1970 and returned to the site for further excavation in the summers of odd-numbered years. The first four seasons (1970-75) have been designated Phase One, and were largely limited to the later occupation levels on the summit and southern slope of the site's northeast hill or acropolis, although there were also probes and limited exploration of the larger Early Bronze (EB) city.

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248

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Eisenbrauns

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0931464579

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9780931464577

Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Texas 30th Cavalry Regiment

By: John C. Rigdon

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Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Texas 30th Cavalry Regiment

By: John C. Rigdon

On August 18, 1862, Col. Edward J. Gurley organized ten companies at Waco, Texas, to form the Thirtieth Texas Cavalry, also known as the First Texas Partisan Rangers. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Gurley obtained permission from President Jefferson Davis to raise a regiment of cavalry. A majority of the men Gurley enlisted in his command came from Waco and the surrounding area, many to avoid the stigma of conscription. Besides McLennan, men came from Bastrop, Johnson, Bosque, Comanche, Chambers, Erath, Hill, and Ellis counties, all in North Central Texas near the frontier, with a small number of men from Arkansas. After the Second Battle of Cabin Creek, the Thirtieth Texas Cavalry received orders that transferred it to Gen. William Henry Parson's Brigade, replacing the Twenty-first Texas Cavalry in March 1865. The Thirtieth Texas Cavalry finally disbanded in May 1865 at Wallace Prairie, Texas, near Austin after serving with Parson's Brigade for only two months.

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0359863914

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9780359863914

Life on the Line

Ethics, Aging, Ending Patients' Lives, and Allocating Vital Resources

By: John Frederic Kilner

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Life on the Line

Ethics, Aging, Ending Patients' Lives, and Allocating Vital Resources

By: John Frederic Kilner

In today's society, where life and death are increasingly becoming matters of choice, life is on the line. Kilner explores topics such as "active" and "passive" euthanasia, suicide, quality of life, living wills, and the criteria for deciding who will receive access to vital treatments that cannot be provided to all. Contrasts a Biblically-grounded ethics with other ethical approaches commonly employed today.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802806309

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9780802806307

Into One's Own

From Youth to Adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975

By: John Modell

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Into One's Own

From Youth to Adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975

By: John Modell

Tracing the life course of American teenagers in the mid-twentieth century, Into One's Own presents a compelling historical portrait of growing up. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989. Tracing the life course of American teenagers in the mid-twentieth century, Into One's Own presents a compelling historical portrait of growing up. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of

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0520341376

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Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord

Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870

By: John B. Boles

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Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord

Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870

By: John B. Boles

Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion and were baptized together, were subject to the same church discipline, and were buried in the same cemeteries. What was the black perception of white-controlled religious ceremonies? How did whites reconcile their faith with their racism? Why did freedmen, as soon as possible after the Civil War, withdraw from the biracial churches and establish black denominations? This book is essential reading for historians of religion, the South, and the Afro-American experience.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813148790

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Creating the Suburban School Advantage

Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis

By: John L. Rury

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Creating the Suburban School Advantage

Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis

By: John L. Rury

Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan Kansas City, a region representative of trends elsewhere. While big-city districts once were widely seen as superior and attracted families seeking the best educational opportunities for their children, suburban school systems grew rapidly in the post–World War II era as middle-class and more affluent families moved to those communities. As Rury relates, at the same time, economically dislocated African Americans migrated from the South to center-city neighborhoods, testing the capacity of urban institutions. As demographic trends drove this urban-suburban divide, a suburban ethos of localism contributed to the socioeconomic exclusion that became a hallmark of outlying school systems. School districts located wholly or partly within the municipal boundaries of Kansas City, Missouri, make for revealing cases that illuminate our understanding of these national patterns. As Rury demonstrates, struggles to achieve greater educational equity and desegregation in urban centers contributed to so-called white flight and what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan considered to be a crisis of urban education in 1965. Despite the often valiant efforts made to serve inner city children and bolster urban school districts, this exodus, Rury cogently argues, created a new metropolitan educational hierarchy—a mirror image of the urban-centric model that had prevailed before World War II. The stubborn perception that suburban schools are superior, based on test scores and budgets, has persisted into the twenty-first century and instantiates today's metropolitan landscape of social, economic, and educational inequality.

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1501748408

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John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary, and the First Three Generations of Their Descendants, 2nd Edition

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Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Texas 30th Cavalry Regiment

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Into One's Own

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Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord

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Creating the Suburban School Advantage

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