The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life—and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World ...
William Evans, representing a generation of jurists including Thomas Peake and Henry Wigmore, had taken issue in print with courtroom evidence, written as well as oral, that had been secured by a magistrate's pretrial examination of ...
In an essay entitled “Corn-Pone Opinions” (written in 1901 but not published until 1923), Mark Twain opened with a childhood reminiscence of Jerry, a Missouri slave who entertained young Twain with mock sermons preached from atop a ...
“Rich with historical detail . . . examines the figure and theme of the death penalty in imaginative literature from Cooper to Dreiser.” —Gregg Crane, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan Drawing from ...
Even what David Roth, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, calls “high-strain caregiving” can be rewarding if you learn ways to handle highly stressful situations effectively or avoid them altogether.
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As he was putting them on, he raised his head, and with it his left arm akimbo, he then slowly moved his head from left to right, and back again, his left elbow following his head in its movements, in which there was an unconscious ...
River birch, Betula nigra, is sometimes called red or black birch for the color of its peeling bark, which is pinkish to reddish brown, becoming dark, fissured, and shaggy on larger, more mature trees. The leaves are arrowhead-shaped, ...
Ferguson, D. M., Steidle, C. P., Singh, G. S., Alexander, J. S., Weihmiller, M. K., & Crosby, M. G. 2003. Randomized, placebo-controlled, doubleblind, crossover design trial of the efficacy and safety of Zestra for Women in women with ...
A, Office of the Dean's Correspondence, AMCMA. 49. Minutes of the Advisory Board, 3/26/31, vol. 2, p. 381; Minutes of the Executive Board, 3/26/31, AMCMA. 50. “Report of the Committee on the Department of Physiology,” 10/1/31, Box 135, ...
As simply an explanation of how Americans became such avid consumers of sugar, this book is superb and can be recommended highly.” —Ken Albala, Winterthur Portfolio “An enlightening tale about the social identity of sweets, how they ...
" Well, physics professor John Eric Goff has the answers.
Early on, the scholarship of Paul Spickard and Werner Sollors helped me get oriented to the subject. Conversations with and shared materials from colleagues have been as important as published works: Will Provine sent me the manuscript ...
After Tom Casale of Grafton, Massachusetts, sued to stop his land from being included in an “area of critical environmental concern,” the state slowed its effort to protect ecologically sensitive areas. The designation wouldn't have ...
... The American Red Cross: A History (New York: Harper, 1950); David P. Forsythe and Barbara Ann J. Rieffer-Flanagan, The International Committee of the Red Cross: A Neutral Humanitarian Actor (New York: Routledge, 2007). 3.
At Macfarland's suggestion, the convention voted to receive Lee at noon on April 23 into the Hall of the House of Delegates—this was a fitting tribute, he noted, ...
These forts anchored Lee's thirty-five miles of thinly stretched defensive works, with Fort Harrison the largest of Richmond's exterior defenses. During the Petersburg Campaign, on September 29, 1864, Union soldiers crossed the James ...
The foundational work of evolutionary psychology is Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby, eds., The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
As Madison noted of the national government in Federalist 10, “Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests: you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the ...