In Between Homeland and Motherland, Alvin B. Tillery Jr. considers the history of political engagement with Africa on the part of African Americans, beginning with the birth of Paul Cuffe’s back-to-……続きを見る
Members of the Yale College class of 1964ーthe first class to matriculate in the 1960sーwere poised to take up the positions of leadership that typically followed an Ivy League education. Their miss……続きを見る
Emotional intelligence is the capability to recognize, use and manage one's own emotions and those of others. The use of emotional information guides thinking and behaviour, allowing adjustment of e……続きを見る
An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classic
The Lotus Sūtra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it asserts the potential for all ……続きを見る
I am a father first. Nothing is more important to me than my kids and what I have instilled in them to prepare them for this world. It hurts me that the time I was able to spend with my sons growing……続きを見る
“The Cash Boy,” by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given in……続きを見る
First published in 1949, in By Eastern Windows author William H. McDougall recalls his experiences of his three years spent in prison camps in Sumatra.
“By Eastern Windows is filled with stories of ……続きを見る
Gilbert Greyson is rich. He is finishing boarding school, readying himself for college, and his future looks bright. And why not? His father willed him $75,000. Today, 2019, that is $1.8 million! A ……続きを見る
What does it mean to inhabit the life of liturgy? What does it mean to be inhabited by Christ? This book offers a way to rethink what we do when we pray, so that we do not so much call on God for he……続きを見る
In this first modern biography of Nathaniel P. Banks, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., reveals the complicated and contradictory nature of the man who called himself the "fighting politician." Despite a……続きを見る
In The Pride of the Confederate Artillery, Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., illustrates the significance of the unit and, for the first time, positions this pivotal group in its rightful place in hist……続きを見る
The politics of slavery consumed the political world of the antebellum South. Although local economic, ethnic, and religious issues tended to dominate northern antebellum politics, The South and the……続きを見る
In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial "ghosts" haunting the mind of the white South: the black woman with whom the white man often had sexual relations, the ……続きを見る
The collapse of the Soviet Union and other Marxist regimes around the world seems to have left liberal democracy as the only surviving ideology, and yet many scholars of political thought still find……続きを見る
Modeled after Ezra J. Warner's two earlier books, Generals in Gray and Generals in Blue, the volume contains an introduction describing the makeup of the Confederate Congress, biographical sketches ……続きを見る
When Generals in Gray was published in 1959, scholars and critics immediately hailed it as one of the few indispensable books on the American Civil War. Historian Stanley Horn, for example, wrote, "……続きを見る
In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among them -- an issue they termed the "negr……続きを見る
When Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina savagely caned Senator Charles Sumner Massachusetts on the floor of the U.S. Senate on May 21, 1856, southerners viewed the attack as a triumphan……続きを見る
Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.’s Marketing the Blue and Gray analyzes newspaper advertising during the American Civil War. Newspapers circulated widely between 1861 and 1865, and merchants took full advan……続きを見る
Victoria English appears to have the perfect life. Although a widow, the 40-year-old mother of 3 is engaged to Crown Height’s most eligible bachelor, the young and strikingly handsome Reverend Matth……続きを見る
Our symptoms are messages we were meant to decode. But are we listening? SAF® translates our symptom patterns from twenty-three systems, making this the Rosetta Stone for humansーan ancient-future s……続きを見る
I believe. These two words are among the most explosive words any human can utter.
The Apostles' Creed has shaped and guided Christian faith for almost two thousand years. Shared by Protestant, Roma……続きを見る
From his entrance into Democratic leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy administration and up until his last days, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was always at the vital center ……続きを見る
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Cha……続きを見る
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collectionーthe first of its kindーinvites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing s……続きを見る
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourg……続きを見る
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chroni……続きを見る
In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wid……続きを見る
