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View book details for A Campaign of Quiet Persuasion
How the College Board Desegregated SAT Test Centers in the Deep South, 1960-1965
LSU Press
In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the South. Working with its partner, Educational Testing Services, the College Board quietly integrated its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) centers throughout the …
LSU Press
Mary Seaton Dix, Associate EditorThe fifth volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis presents 9,000 of the approximately 21,000 known Davis letters, papers, and speeches from the years 1853 through 1855, when Davis served as secretary of war under President …
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Georgia's Forgotten Founder
LSU Press
In 1737, Englishman William Stephens (1671--1753) sailed to Georgia to serve as colonial secretary to its British Board of Trustees. His lucid reports on the condition of Georgia deeply impressed the board, which eventually appointed him president of the troubled …
LSU Press
John Marshall (1755--1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 to1835, he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the …
View book details for Acadiana
Louisiana's Historic Cajun Country
LSU Press
"Acadiana" summons up visions of a legendary and exotic world of moss-draped cypress, cocoa-colored bayous, subtropical wildlife, and spicy indigenous cuisine. The ancestral home of Cajuns and Creoles, this twenty-two-parish area of south Louisiana encompasses a broad range of people, …
View book details for Damn Yankees!
Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South
LSU Press
During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of …
De Gruyter
Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten hat mit uber 500 Banden zur linguistischen Theoriebildung der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland und international wesentlich beigetragen. Die Reihe wird auch weiterhin neue Impulse fur die Forschung setzen und die zentrale Einsicht der Sprachwissenschaft prasentieren, dass …
View book details for Existenz, Denken, Stil: Perspektiven einer Grundbeziehung
Dargestellt am Werk Soren Kierkegaards
De Gruyter
View book details for Die sprachliche Erforschung der griechischen Bibel
Ihr gegenwartiger Stand und ihre Aufgaben
iUniverse
Turner Publishing Company
What began as a fur-trading post grew into the second-largest city in Michigan, a center for industry and the arts. As "Furniture Capital of the World and an All-American City three times, Grand Rapids has a fascinating past. Historic Photos …
Turner Publishing Company
In Chicago, as wherever Christmas is celebrated, holiday traditions reflect both universal themes and local color, both the spirit of giving and snow-covered State Street. In 1913, Chicago decorated its first civic Christmas tree, while many others arrived on the …
Turner Publishing Company
Imagine a ride with the Mississippi mockingbird as it soars through the Mississippi skies. Beginning in the land of Elvis at Tupelo, one moves down to the Piney Woods of East Central Mississippi where the ground is covered with fragrant …
De Gruyter
Lexicographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost …
Turner Publishing Company
Historic Photos of Chicago captures the remarkable journey of the city of broad shoulders"" and its people through the historic photographs of the Chicago History Museum. From the Great Fire, to the rise of industry, through prohibition, World Wars and …
Turner Publishing Company
The popularity of great Americans frequently simmers before it boils, but the nations 40th President heard the kettle whistling from early in his administration. Ronald Reagan came to office in 1981 determined to face head-on foes of the great American …
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A Brief Introduction for Christians
Turner Publishing Company
A window into the Jewish soulwritten especially for Christians. I invite you to explore with me some of the rich and varied expressions of the Jewish spiritual imagination. It is a tradition that may at times, for Christians, feel strangely …
View book details for In the Creole Twilight
Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore
LSU Press
Many of the recurring motifs found in south Louisiana's culture spring from the state's rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of European and African heritage, celebrated customs like the Courir de Mardi Gras and fabled creatures like the Loup-Garou grow out …
Turner Publishing Company
Historic Photos of Boston captures Beantown's"" past through photographs from the city's finest archives. From the Civil War period, to the turn of the century, to the building of a modern metropolis, Historic Photos of Boston follows life, government, education, …
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Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future
Turner Publishing Company
Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational changefrom fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life."Jewish Megatrends offers a vision for a community that can simultaneously strengthen the institutions that serve those who seek greater Jewish identification and attract younger Jews, …
Turner Publishing Company
The Golden Gate Bridge is a marvel of engineering and architecture considered by many to be one of the worlds most beautiful bridges, its picturesque vistas favored by photographers, artists, visitors to San Francisco, and almost everyone else. When naysayers …
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The Jewish Passion to Repair the World
Turner Publishing Company
The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health. For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be …
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