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Book Shame Unveiled the Monument Promise

Download or read book Shame Unveiled the Monument Promise written by Dr. Cindy Jolene and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shame Unveiled the Monument Promise “Wait until I Die” Title Explanation Words of honor erected in memory of a person’s past regarding shame, enduring evidence lived and unveiled (by choice). Scripture For the scripture says, Who-ever believes on him will not be put to shame. (Romans 10:11))

Book Exercises Connected with the Unveiling of the Ellsworth Monument  at Mechanicville  May 27  1874

Download or read book Exercises Connected with the Unveiling of the Ellsworth Monument at Mechanicville May 27 1874 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book The Shame of the Cities

Download or read book The Shame of the Cities written by Lincoln Steffens and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shame of the Cities is a book written by Lincoln Steffens. It accounts for the workings of corrupt political procedures in several major U.S. cities, along with a few attempts to fight against them.

Book The Shame of the Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lincoln Steffens
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-03-08
  • ISBN : 0486147665
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Shame of the Cities written by Lincoln Steffens and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.

Book Monument Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kirk Savage
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-07-11
  • ISBN : 0520271335
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Monument Wars written by Kirk Savage and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.

Book Public Opinion

Download or read book Public Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun

Download or read book Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun written by June Teufel Dreyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even as Japan perceives itself falling behind, exacerbating long-standing historical frictions. June Teufel Dreyer's Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun provides a highly accessible overview of one of the world's great civilizational rivalries that ranges from the seventh century to the present. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the shrinking distances afforded by advances in technology and the intrusion of Western powers brought the two into closer proximity in ways that alternately united and divided them. In the aftermath of multiple wars between them, including a long and brutal conflict in World War II, Japan developed into an economic power but rejected militarism. China's journey toward modernization was hindered by ideological and leadership struggles that lasted until the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. The final part focuses on the issues that dominate China and Japan's current relationship: economic rivalry, memories of World War II, resurgent nationalism, military tensions, Taiwan, the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, and globalization. Dreyer argues that recent disputes should be seen as manifestations of embedded rivalries rather than as issues whose resolution would provide a lasting solution to deep-standing disputes. For the paperback edition, she has added a new afterword that takes readers up to the present day.

Book A Mirror for Monkeys

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Spurling
  • Publisher : Prelude Books
  • Release : 2021-04-22
  • ISBN : 0715653636
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book A Mirror for Monkeys written by John Spurling and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the floorboards of a ruined house, an 18th-century memoir is discovered. It reveals the life story of William Congreve, the acclaimed English playwright. The lost manuscript is penned by his faithful servant, Jeremy, who tells how they lived together through fierce political division and triumphal nationalism in that era of war with France, the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution. Upon his death a monument in Stowe is erected to honour Mr Congreve. Atop a slender pyramid sits a monkey peering into a mirror, a court wit seeing reflected the ironies of polite society folding in on itself as Whigs and Tories feud with scant ground for compromise. Through the prisms of memory and art, award-winning author John Spurling reimagines this tumultuous period and brings to life historical figures Dryden, Vanbrugh, Swift, Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as never before.

Book Dixie s Daughters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen L. Cox
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2019-02-04
  • ISBN : 0813063892
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Dixie s Daughters written by Karen L. Cox and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this edition, with a new preface, Cox acknowledges the deadly riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, showing why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They erected monuments, monitored history for "truthfulness," and sought to educate coming generations of white southerners about an idyllic past and a just cause—states' rights. Soldiers' and widows' homes, perpetuation of the mythology of the antebellum South, and pro-southern textbooks in the region's white public schools were all integral to their mission of creating the New South in the image of the Old. UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I. This remarkable history of the organization presents a portrait of two generations of southern women whose efforts helped shape the social and political culture of the New South. It also offers a new historical perspective on the subject of Confederate memory and the role southern women played in its development.

Book The Monthly Review  Or  Literary Journal

Download or read book The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Review  Or  New Literary Journal

Download or read book Monthly Review Or New Literary Journal written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Review

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph Griffiths
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1821
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book The Monthly Review written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lancet

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1898
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1090 pages

Download or read book The Lancet written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collier s Once a Week

Download or read book Collier s Once a Week written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of General Philip H  Sheridan

Download or read book Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of General Philip H Sheridan written by New York (State) Sheridan monument commission and published by . This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haunted by Atrocity

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  • Author : Benjamin G. Cloyd
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2010-05-24
  • ISBN : 9780807137383
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Haunted by Atrocity written by Benjamin G. Cloyd and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, and both the Lincoln and Davis administrations manipulated the prison controversy to serve the exigencies of war. As both sides distributed propaganda designed to convince citizens of each section of the relative virtue of their own prison system -- in contrast to the cruel inhumanity of the opponent -- they etched hardened and divisive memories of the prison controversy into the American psyche, memories that would prove difficult to uproot. In Haunted by Atrocity, Benjamin G. Cloyd deftly analyzes how Americans have remembered the military prisons of the Civil War from the war itself to the present, making a strong case for the continued importance of the great conflict in contemporary America. Throughout Reconstruction and well into the twentieth century, Cloyd shows, competing sectional memories of the prisons prolonged the process of national reconciliation. Events such as the trial and execution of CSA Captain Henry Wirz -- commander of the notorious Andersonville prison -- along with political campaigns, the publication of prison memoirs, and even the construction of monuments to the prison dead all revived the painful accusations of deliberate cruelty. As northerners, white southerners, and African Americans contested the meaning of the war, these divisive memories tore at the scars of the conflict and ensured that the subject of Civil War prisons remained controversial. By the 1920s, the death of the Civil War generation removed much of the emotional connection to the war, and the devastation of the first two world wars provided new contexts in which to reassess the meaning of atrocity. As a result, Cloyd explains, a more objective opinion of Civil War prisons emerged -- one that condemned both the Union and the Confederacy for their callous handling of captives while it deemed the mistreatment of prisoners an inevitable consequence of modern war. But, Cloyd argues, these seductive arguments also deflected a closer examination of the precise responsibility for the tragedy of Civil War prisons and allowed Americans to believe in a comforting but ahistorical memory of the controversy. Both the recasting of the town of Andersonville as a Civil War village in the 1970s and the 1998 opening of the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville National Historic Site reveal the continued American preference for myth over history -- a preference, Cloyd asserts, that inhibits a candid assessment of the evils committed during the Civil War. The first study of Civil War memory to focus exclusively on the military prison camps, Haunted by Atrocity offers a cautionary tale of how Americans, for generations, have unconsciously constructed their recollections of painful events in ways that protect cherished ideals of myth, meaning, identity, and, ultimately, a deeply rooted faith in American exceptionalism.

Book Transatlantic Memories of Slavery  Remembering the Past  Changing the Future

Download or read book Transatlantic Memories of Slavery Remembering the Past Changing the Future written by Elisa Bordin and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the memorialization of slavery has generated an impressive number of publications, relatively few studies deal with this subject from a transnational, transdisciplinary and transracial standpoint. As a historical phenomenon that crossed borders and traversed national communities and ethnic groups producing alliances that did not overlap with received identities, slavery as well as its memory call for comparative investigations that may bring to light aspects obscured by the predominant visibility of US-American and British narratives of the past. This study addresses the memory of slavery from a transnational perspective. It brings into dialogue texts and practices from the transatlantic world, offering comparative analyses which interlace the variety of memories emerging in diverse national contexts and fields of study and shed light on the ways local countermemories have interacted with and responded to hegemonic narratives of slavery. The inclusion of Brazil and the French, English, and Spanish Caribbean alongside the United States and Europe, and the variety of investigative approaches-ranging from cinema, popular culture and visual culture studies to anthropology and literary studies-expand the current understanding of the slave past and how it is reimagined today. This fascinating book brings freshness to the topic by considering objects of investigation which have so far remained marginal in the academic debate, such as heroic memorials, civic landscape, white family sagas, Young Adult literature of slavery, Latin American telenovelas and filmic narrations within and beyond Hollywood. What emerges is a multifarious set of memories, which keep changing according to generation, race, gender, nation and political urgency and indicate the advancing of a dynamic, mobilized memorialization of slavery willing to move beyond mourning towards a more militant stand for justice. This is an important book for those interested in African American, American, and Latin American studies and working across literature, cinema, visual arts, and public culture. It will also be useful to public official and civil servants interested in the question of slavery and its present memory.