books about: commemorating

books about: commemorating

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Commemorating

The Making of an American Church: Essays Commemorating the Jubilee Year of the Evangelical United Brethren ...
Robert L. Frey

The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2007

John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Franny Nudelman

The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Singing "John Brown's Body" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a means to national unity and rebirth. Many scholars have followed suit, and the Civil War is ...

Commemorating Epimetheus (Philosophy/Communication) (Philosophy/ Communication)
Les Amis & S.

Purdue University Press, 2008

Epimetheus has largely been forgotten, and yet, he was once credited with bringing humans into the world naked, unshod, without bed, and unarmed. Rather than view this condition as one of deficiency to be covered over through some kind of technical artifice, Commemorating Epimetheus describes the human condition positively in terms of its state of ...

Cowgirls: Commemorating the Women of the West

David R. Stoecklein

Stoecklein Publishing, 1999

COWGIRLS RULE
I purchased this book after looking at it in a bookstore. The authors' photpgraphy is amazing. Now I want all of his books! This book makes me want to be a cowgirl when I grow up (I'm 42). I have to say that I don't agree with one of the other reviewers' comments, in ...

Peninsula Tales and Trails: Commemorating the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space ...

David Weintraub

Graphic Arts Books, 2004

Local History, Hiking and More!
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District came into existence in 1972 as the result of an overwhelming vote in 1972 to preserve lands from rapid development. In 1976 the "open space" concept was extended into San Mateo county and in the nearly 30 years since the ...

Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future: Commemorating the150th Anniversary of the American ...

Visual Reference Publications, 2008

The Empire State Building. Fallingwater. The Walt Disney Concert Hall. Rediscover these American treasures?and discover the engrossing stories of the colorful individuals whose designs made them possible?in Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future. This lavishly illustrated, eminently readable book commemorates 150 years of the ...

Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane

Sarah Farmer

University of California Press, 2000

Excellent presentation of history in rural Limousin, France.
Sarah Farmer deserves high praise for the clear narration and helpful explanations throughout "Martyred Village." Other historians ought emulate her writing. She first describes the slaughter of 10 June 1944, SS troops killing the civilians of Oradour. She then ...

The Great Hudson River Brick Industry: Commemorating Three and a Half Centuries of Brickmaking
George V. Hutton

Purple Mountain Press, 2003

At the beginning of the twenieth century, brick manufacturing was the dominate industry in the Hudson Valley. One hundred and thirty brickyards employed seven to eight thousand workers. It was the largest brickmaking region in the world, supplying vast amounts of this most essential building material to the fastest growing city in the world. ...

The Anne of Green Gables Treasury -Special Edition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Anne of Green ...
Carolyn Strom Collins, Christina Wyss Eriksson

Ingleside Impressions, 2008

In 1908, L. M. Montgomery's classic Anne of Green Gables introduced the charming and memorable Anne Shirley to readers and immortalized scenic Prince Edward Island through the eyes of this unforgettable character. In this lavishly illustrated volume, you can enter the world of Green Gables and bring that world into your own. Learn to prepare ...

Lincoln Centennial: Addresses Delivered At The Memorial Exercises Held At Springfield, Illinois, 1909, ...
Illinois Centennial Commission

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

Baudelaire as a Love Poet,: And Other Essays; Commemorating the Centenary of the Death of the Poet

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969

The Truth Will Set You Free: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Death of Pope Pius XII
Margherita Marchione

Paulist Press, 2009

The Truth Will Set You Free commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII (October 9, 1958). On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pius XII, Sr. Margherita Marchione recalls the outstanding contribution that his life make to the world. Sr. Margherita has long been in the forefront of the battle to restore the reputation ...

Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789-1799 (Cambridge Social and ...
Joseph Clarke

Cambridge University Press, 2007

From the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the coming of Napoleon ten years later, the commemoration of the dead was a recurring theme during the French Revolution. Based on extensive research across a wide range of sources, this book is the first comprehensive study of the cultural politics of commemoration in Revolutionary France. It examines ...

Commemorating Brown: The Social Psychology of Racism and Discrimination (Decade of Behavior)

American Psychological Association (APA), 2007

Brown v. Board of Education was the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared racial segregation illegal in the United States. Commemorating Brown offers a critical retrospective on the role of psychological research in the fight against racism and discrimination and an up-to-date review of the psychology of racism and its ...