—Jean Strouse “Caro is a master of biography. . . . With his Tolstoyian touch for story telling and drama, Caro gives us a fascinating ride through the corridors of Senate sovereignty. . . . Of all the many Johnson biographies, ...
In considering Thomas Groome's powerful understanding of religious education, we sense that the engagement of the whole person in real life situations and relationships guides the project of religious education.
Paul S. Boyer. taxes” such as the Stamp Act. But in an influential 1767 pamphlet misleadingly titled Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia lawyer John Dickinson rejected this distinction. As the dispute deepened, ...
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An encyclopedia of life on the home front during the two world wars provides biographical profiles, articles on all aspects of life during the era, chronologies of important events, and primary source documents.
... war, civil war, and cold war, and following its own historical patterns toward new political forms and economic development. In both Korea and Vietnam, modernization was vexed by a context of colonial domination, nationalist movements ...
German-Americans in the World Wars: Research on the German-American experience of World War One
As this book reveals, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich were in the forefront of statistical innovation in the interwar decades.