Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Third Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, the 1996 Hesburgh Lecturer on Ethics and Public Policy, challenges a powerful strand in western political thinking that separates the political and ethical realms. This is manifest above all in the claim that although the rule of justice might pertain between citizens, force is the ultimate arbiter between states and would-be ......
Reveals fundamental continuities between the contemporary War on Terror and earlier U.S. imperial conflicts Prehistories of the War on Terror examines the longstanding American project of classifying enemies who challenge U.S. power abroad as terrorists. To do so, the volume brings disparate episodes of U.S. military empire-building into dialogue ......
A detailed treatise on thirty two Worthington families of the 17th century in Lancashire and others worldwide whose ancestry can be traced to Lancashire produced from some of over 2,800 written references collected over more than ten years and containing pedigrees of each family and 76 maps and illustrations. A must for Worthington genealogists.
Ambassador Francis Martin O'Donnell explores the fascinating history of his forbearers in this comprehensive study. The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland in the early 1600s extinguished the rule of the O'Donnells of Tyrconnell (Tir Chonaill), leading to the plantation of Ulster. This is the first account of lost branches of their dynasty, descending ......
Family history, usually destined or even designed for limited consumption, is a familiar genre within Mormon culture. Mostly written with little attention to standards of historical scholarship, such works are a distinctly hagiographic form of family memorabilia.But in the right hands, many family sagas can prove widely engaging, owing to inherent ......
A guide to the methods and issues involved in carrying out biographical, life history or family history research. Robert Miller demonstrates that biographical research is a distinctive way of conceptualizing social activity. He covers the three main approaches to biographical and family history: realist - focused around grounded-theory techniques ......
The Lone Star State takes its name from the icon on its famous flag, a flag whose story adds a unique dimension to the dramatic history of Texas. In the flag's early incarnations, homespun cotton, ladies' silk dresses, and various other goods provided the materials used for banners to lead Texans in battle and in nation-building. In Texas Flags, ......
A Travel Guide to Remarkable Cemeteries in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,Louisiana, Arkansas
The compilation reaffirms our fascination with cemeteries and their status as tourist attractions. People visit cemeteries in large numbers. Evidence of crowd control abounds from signs directing traffic to the grave marker of President Clinton's mother in Hope, Arkansas, and the large steel cage protecting the tombstone of Billy the Kid at Fort ......
