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August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping, falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt suddenly disappeared and he was “overwhelmed as with a stream of joy.” His account came to exemplify Pietist conversion in the historical ......
A History of the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association with an Account of the Battle Giving Movements, Positions, and Losses of the Commands Engaged
John Mitchell Vanderslice’s Gettysburg offers an overarching history of the Battle of Gettysburg and describes the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association’s origins and accomplishments. The Memorial Association, established by an act of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1864, aimed to preserve and protect the battlefield ......
Publication of Gezer VI: The Objects from Phases I and II (1964–1974) continues the presentation of archaeological reports on the Hebrew Union College-Harvard Semitic Museum Excavations at Gezer between 1964 and 1974 as part of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology Annual Series. With the exception of objects ......
The Middle Bronze Age and Later Fortifications in Fields II, IV, and VIII
In 1912, R. A. S. Macalister published reports on his PEF excavations at Tell Gezer in central Israel, including notice of having traced more than 1,400 meters (almost a full mile) of defense walls around the site. Now, a century later, a detailed reassessment of these fortifications is provided in the publication of Gezer VII: The Middle ......
There has never been much doubt about the faith of the "infidel historian" Edward Gibbon. But for all of Gibbon's skepticism regarding Christianity's central doctrines, the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire did not merely seek to oppose Christianity; he confronted it as a philosophical and historical puzzle. ......
Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice.
Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice.
Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel
A discussion of the murals by Giotto in the Arena Chapel of Padua, Italy. The artist's work is considered in terms of its relationship to the structure of the poetry of Dante, biblical exegesis, geometry, and symmetry.
The History of a Family Estate, as Revealed in the Correspondence Between Brognard Okie and Ernst and Mary Behrend
By 1930, having developed a highly successful business, the innovative paper manufacturer Ernst Behrend and his wife Mary purchased a number of existing houses and farms to give them sufficient acreage to create a large estate. In 1948 this property became a campus of Penn State University. Known as Penn State Behrend, to this day it retains the ......
