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Solidarity and Mercy: The Power of Christian Humanitarian Efforts in UkraineFrom an international correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter's Global Sisters Report comes a powerful investigative work into the poignant acts of humanitarianism he witnessed during the Ukrainian war. In this touching, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Chris Herlinger spotlights the Catholic sisters, clerics, and...
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Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by the Women Left Behind'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry ... A welcome contribution to polar studies.' Sara Wheeler, Spectator '[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill...takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief' The Times The men of Captain Scott's...
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of SlaveryWith a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition. In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country--revealing the fascinating history behind...
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Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States ConstitutionSlavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. While historians have generally acknowledged that patriot leaders assembled in response to postwar economic chaos, the threat of popular insurgencies, and the...
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Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the PresentAn acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped...
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Shipwrecked and Rescued: The "City of Bangor"Author: Larry JorgensenPublisher: Modern History PressPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 100Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27dISBN: 9781615998548
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Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth CenturyA TRAGIC SHIPPING ACCIDENT OPENS A WINDOW ON RACIALIZED LABOUR MANAGEMENT IN AN AGE OF IMPERIALISM When eighty-seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail ship Egypt in 1922, the accident gave rise to a racist international press campaign against...
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Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing DynastiesThroughout much of history, imperial China has exhibited a seemingly capricious relationship with the sea. At times, it has welcomed commerce and travel across its vast waters with open arms, yet at others, it has sought to completely cordon off the littoral and the...
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Sarah Siddons: The First Celebrity ActressSarah Siddons rose from a poor, traveling actor to Britain's greatest tragic actress by overcoming early career failures, becoming a superstar by her 30s, and skillfully managing her image and reputation in the eighteenth century.Sarah Siddons grew up as a member of a family...
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Sanya Kantarovsky: Selected Works 2010-2024An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky. Forlorn and spiritually bankrupt, tender or abject--the subjects in the figurative paintings of Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982) convey an uneasy, dark humor. They seem trapped in a precarious inner monologue,...
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San MarcosSan Marcos, Texas, permanently settled in 1846, was founded by former members of John C. Hays's company of Texas Rangers. The town was designated the county seat of Hays County by the Texas legislature in 1848 and was formally laid out in 1851. A...
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Salvation: God's Marvelous Work of GraceA now classic work that clearly and directly defines and explains the scriptural, theological, and practical aspects of each facet of the salvation Jesus secured for us. Originally published in 1917, this book explores atonement, grace, propitiation, forgiveness, justification, imputation, regeneration, adoption, sanctification, redemption,...
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Roman Decorative Stone Collections in the Kelsey Museum of ArchaeologyAt the turn of the twentieth century, Francis W. Kelsey began to amass a large collection of artifacts from ancient sites across the Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Imperial Rome, to broaden the teaching of antiquity at the University of Michigan. Among the objects...
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Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art World: 1945-2000A colorful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global center of the art market--a story of Impressionist masterpieces, dodgy dealers, and ground-breaking financial transactions. On October 15, 1958, Sotheby's of Bond Street staged an "event sale" of seven Impressionist paintings belonging...
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Robert RymanAn extensive look at Robert Ryman's formative work from the early 1960s, as well as his last series of paintings In the 1960s, Robert Ryman began to firmly establish the broad parameters of his radical and inventive practice. While he initially gained recognition for...
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Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European HistoryMigration is often viewed as a one-way process, from the country of origin to the place of arrival, but recent academic research shows that this presumption is fundamentally flawed. Migration has always been characterized by return movements, as a glance into history reveals -...
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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I (February 2024)This report represents Volume I of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office's (AARO) Historical Record Report (HR2) which reviews the record of the United States Government (USG) pertaining to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). In completing this report, AARO reviewed all official USG investigatory efforts since...
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Registration of SLAVES to work in the Great Dismal Swamp Gates County, North Carolina, 1847-1861By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1995, Reprinted 2024, 148 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-247-7. Gates County was created in 1778 from Hertford, Chowan and Perquimans counties, N.C. It is located in the Northeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. It is surrounded by...
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Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages: Writing, Language, and Creation in the Latin Physiologus, Ca. 700-1000This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiologus--the foundation of the medieval...
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?rase Una Vez M?xico 1: de Las Cavernas Al Virreinato / Once Upon a Time Mexico 1Una manera distinta de redescubrir el pasado mexicano y despertar la curiosidad del lector sin frivolidades. Esta es la historia de un grupo de hombres que comenz? en las cavernas y luego de miles de a?os, encontraron una se?al: un ?guila posada en un...
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