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Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science, Sports Therapy: Organization and Operations
Handbook of Sports Therapy Services: Organization and Operations is a practical guide, appropriate for each member of the multi-disciplinary "Sports Therapy" team, to establishing and effectively delivering the diverse therapy services required for athletes at international, national, and regional s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Rural Electrification And Development: Social And Economic Impact In Costa Rica And Colombia
Financing distribution of electric energy to rural areas in developing countries is a relatively recent activity. The United States Agency for International Development (AID) was the first to loan funds for this purpose. In 1963 it authorized $400, 000 to establish an electric cooperative in Nicarag... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1979 -
Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit from Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business
Picasso changed the way we look at art.Profit Patterns will change the way we look at business. Picasso's work reflected the social and technological changes that swept through the early twentieth century. Equally pronounced changes are sweeping through today's business landscape, often at breathtak... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Snow on the Roof
by J. Leigh Bailey • Maggie Lee • Sam C. Leonhard • Kim Fielding • Ac Valentine • John Inman • Rhidian Brenig Jones • Mari Donne • Dottie Stratton • Laylah Hunter • Linda James • Amy Rae Durreson • Tray Ellis • Chris Scully • Pinkie Rae Parker • Layla M. Wier"Just because there's snow on the roof, doesn't mean the fire's gone out in the furnace." There's something to be said for maturity and experience, and in all of these relationships, at least one of the lovers is over forty. Whether it's a May/December romance, a second chan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by James M. Mcpherson • William C. Davis • Lesley J. Gordon • John C. Inscoe • Christopher Phillips • William S. Mcfeely • Joseph T. Glatthaar • Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein • Jennifer Gross • Clarence L. Mohr • Brian Steel Wills • Nina Silber • Jennifer Lund Smith • Frank J. Byrne • Thomas G. Dyer • Keith Bohannon • Jean E. Friedman • Rod Andrew • Philip Davis Dillard • David McgeeIn The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set): From the Global to the Individual
by James Gilligan • Gwen Adshead • Kate Rothwell • Grace Lee • Estela Welldon • Christopher Scanlon • John Adlam • Anna Motz • Alex Maguire • Julian Manley • Simon Hackett • David W. Jones • Matt Killingsworth • Thilo Kroll • Lucy Neal • Tilman Kluttig • Bandy Lee • John L Young • Annie Stopford • Gardnel Carter • Gina Donoso • Gloria Uwizeye • Efrat Even-Tzur • Ismail Karolia • Klaus Hoffmann • Barry Richards • Aileen Schloerb • Hayley Berman • Reinmar Du Bois • Maggie McAlister • Clinton Van der Walt • Zoe Berko • Sarita Bose • Martha Ferrito • Martina Mindang • Robyn Timoclea • Deborah J. Cohan • Claude Barbre • Jill Barbre • Tamsin Cottis • Andrew Ware • Gerrard Drennan • James S. VrettosThis is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent state... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood
by Richard Van Camp • Tomson Highway • Joseph Boyden • Kim Anderson • Gregory Scofield • Sam Mckegney • Lee Maracle • Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair • Basil H. Johnston • Dana Claxton • Daniel David Moses • Louise Bernice Halfe • Taiaiake Alfred • Janice C. Hill • Thomas Kimeksun Thrasher • Brendan Hokowhitu • Ty P. Tengan • Warren Cariou • Alison Calder • Daniel Heath Justice • Adrian Stimson • Terrance Houle • Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm • Joanne Arnott • Neal McleodWhat does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Preaching with Their Lives: Dominicans on Mission in the United States after 1850
by Kathleen Sprows Cummings • Cynthia Taylor • Margaret M. McGuinness • Arlene Bachanov • Elizabeth Michael Boyle O.P. • James T. Carroll • Heath Carter • Diane Kennedy O.P. • Donna Maria Moses O.P. • Cecilia Murray O.P. • Christopher J. Renz O.P. • Ellen Skerrett • Janet Welsh O.P.This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting after the Civil War, the book takes a thematic approach through twelve essays examining Dominican contribu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
by Neil Gaiman • Dave Eggers • Scott Turow • Salman Rushdie • Michael Cunningham • Louise Erdrich • Geraldine Brooks • David Handler • Ann Patchett • Meg Wolitzer • Elizabeth Strout • Timothy Egan • Jonathan Lethem • Jacqueline Woodson • Rabih Alameddine • Lauren Groff • Victor Lavalle • Jennifer Egan • Aleksandar Hemon • Anthony Doerr • William Finnegan • Jesmyn Ward • Sergio De La Pava • George Saunders • Marlon James • Andrew Greer • Yaa Gyasi • Brit Bennett • Morgan Parker • Moriel Rothman-Zecher • Steven Okazaki • Li Yiyun • Hector Tobar • Moses Sumney • Viet Nguyen • C. J. Anders • Brenda Childs • Adrian LeBlancTo mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. <P><P>On January 19, 1920, a small ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020