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Since the beginning in 1943, the mission of the Gamma Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority has been to cultivate scholastic and ethical standards, to promote unity and friendship among college women, and to be of service to all mankind. Timeless Service in Gamma Sigma Omega Chapter chronicles the history of the women who sojourned in the life of one chapter of the first Black female Greek letter organization and the events that impacted...
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Essays on Descartes, Schopenhauer, Marx, Bergson, Adam Smith,David Ricardo Kuhn, Hecksher-Ohlin. Topics include: certainty, ego,duration, consciousness, free-will, alienation, naturalism, scientifi crevolutions, profi ts, rents, classical and marginalist economics, foreigntrade theory.Th ese essays were written when I was a graduate student in philosophyin the late 1960s at New York University and then a decade later asa graduate student in economics...
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Explore the history of immigration to the United States through the eyes of two of its earliest families the Nuckollses and the Lymans. Charles R. Nuckolls Jr. examines the religious strife, war, and other problems that forced his descendants and others to flee to the New World. His examination of his family's role in historic events provides a framework for understanding the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the beginnings of...
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Asylums were first, established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky's First Asylum, author Alma Wynelle Deese explores this issue by dissecting the inner workings of the Eastern Kentucky Asylum, Kentucky's First Asylum and the second state-supported asylum to be, established in the United States. She describes the people, who were involved in the creation and maintenance of a medical...
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Cest une poque, dont nous ne sommes pas prts de prendre cong. 1757 dbute le rcit de Pierre Joseph Jean-Baptiste. La ralit historique pour lauteur, contrairement dautres crivains, consiste cerner les vnements pour les prsenter sous leur aspect logique, les faits dabord la fiction ensuite. Quel est le mystre de cette philosophie? Cest peut-tre sa faon de concevoir notre hros. 1791 nait un grand espoir la crmonie du Bois Caman, et la rvolte desclaves...
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Abraham Lincoln once said that history is not history unless it is the truth, and American history, as told to generations of Americans of all ages, is filled with lies and deceits that has led us inevitably to war after war. Despite all the deceptions, America has risen to become the greatest and wealthiest nation of all time. That is the paradox that is explored in this book.
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Most historical narratives about Africans in America begin with Jamestown, Virginia, where enslaved Angolans were sold in 1619. However, this book commences with blacks as explorers in the Americas before Christopher Columbus arrival. The point here is to demonstrate that slavery robbed Africa of its heritage and impoverished the continent.Once Africans landed in America as slaves, state laws denied them civil rights and humane treatment. The hopelessness,...
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On November 26, 1943, the United States sustained its largest loss of troops at sea. Over 2,000 U.S. servicemen were aboard the British troop ship HMT Rohna in the Mediterranean on their way to the China-Burma-India Theater of war. Traveling in a convoy, the Rohna and 23 other ships were attacked by German bombers. After a fierce fight that ended with no ships lost, a single bomber made a final run. Armed with the latest technology (a rocket powered,...
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Ten young men from a small Indiana town volunteer to take up arms against the Confederates as war breaks out between North and South. The men will prove their mettle as part of Company K of the Nineteenth Volunteer Regiment, part of the Union Army of the Potomac's Iron Brigade. Known as fierce fighters, the brigade will suffer some of the heaviest casualties during the Civil War. They will fight important battles over three years, including Second...
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Early associates such as Rudolf Hess, Ernst Hanfstaengl, and Hermann Esser all claimed that Hitler revered alcoholic playwright Dietrich Eckart more than any other colleague. Eminent German historians Karl Dietrich Bracher, Werner Maser, Georg Franz-Willig, and Ernst Nolte have confirmed this assessment. Hitler not only dedicated Mein Kampf to Eckart, he hung his portrait in Munich's Brown House, placed a bust of him in the Reich Chancellery next...
11) Still More Meanderings in Medical History: The Third of a Trilogy of Meanderings in Medical History
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As with the previous two books in this trilogy of meanderings, the current collection contains essays about medical practice and the lives of various physicians at different times and places.
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"Carefully reviewing events from 1500 AD to 1830 AD, Coddington and Chapman provide a persuasive list of examples of how they believe God favorably intervened in the establishment of the United States. Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with their arguments, you will be amazed at the number of times the margin between victory and defeat was determined by factors totally outside human control."-C. Craig Williford, PhD, president, Denver SeminaryWith...
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A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions struck in the middle of the twelfth century BC and with a sudden swiftness brought Old World civilizations to an abrupt end. This initiated the worlds longest and deepest known dark age.When the world finally recovered centuries later, new written languages had replaced old ones, a new strategic and useful metal had replaced the old one, and the historical reality of the old civilizations had been replaced...
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The Psychedelic Sixties were turbulent times filled with periods of ecstasy and despair. Who could have predicted that President Kennedy's Camelot would end with his televised assassination? Or that Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary's "Concord Prison Project" would evolve into his becoming the pied piper of LSD, the Psychedelic Revolution, and the Hippie Movement? To the credit of many Americans, a key characteristic of the Psychedelic Sixties was...
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This collection of columns by historian Bruce G. Kauffmann is must reading whether you are a history buff or not. Unlike most historians Kauffmann writes in a style that is entertaining as well as educational, and because his columns are short just 450 words they arent a huge commitment in time. Read one each day, or as many as you like. A recurring theme in the correspondence Kauffmann gets from readers is how much they wish history had been taught...
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The Civil War that so devastated the United States began a century and a half ago; even so, people continue to disagree on why the North and South went to war. By examining President Abraham Lincoln's speeches, along with those of other politicians during the time period, it is possible to identify historical misrepresentations and distortions that have made their way into textbooks. Author Jack Pennington, a historian and retired school teacher,...
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"To endure the hardships of the frontier took more than a determined pioneer spirit. It required a faith that everything would work out for the best-that something more was to come other than the meager crops they scratched out of the earth."-from The Minutes of Salem Baptist ChurchSalem Baptist Church was one of the small pioneer churches that nurtured that faith. Located near Birchwood, Tennessee, Salem Baptist Church led the community in the midst...
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Agendas and Choices illustrates and examines the intricate predispositions, habits, and agendas and choices which form and become the personalities of the characters in the books five major parts--- which are four Stories and one Novella. There are imposed Agendas and Choices for example (like a WWII, which can also help to create a final personality profile); there are, of course, personal choices which often harden into inflexible agendas. Enjoy...
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With a political career spanning nearly half a century, Tlesphore-Damien Bouchard was an advocate for progress in Quebec's history. He began his rise to the top in 1912 when he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the city of Saint-Hyacinthe. He went on to become mayor of Saint-Hyacinthe for twenty-five years, Speaker of the House, Acting House Leader of the Liberal Party from 1936 to 1939 and finally, the most influential...
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Gen. George Washington faced a myriad of obstacles in the summer of 1781.
In George Washington at "Head Quarters, Dobbs Ferry," author and historian Mary Sudman Donovan explores this crucial period during the American Revolutionary War by chronicling his activities.
In July, he moved a large contingent of the Continental army to the east bank of the Hudson River near the eastern terminus of Dobbs Ferry. There, on a large expanse known as Philipsburg,...
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