The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age "Let Us Vote!" tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. Over a thirty-year period starting during World War II, Americans, old and young, Democrat and Republican, in politics and culture, built ......
Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais
To studies of Brazilian slavery, this book adds a new dimension by showing how it developed in a region where mining was the chief commercial activity and how important a role gender played in this frontier setting in creating opportunities for slaves to achieve some measure of autonomy, compared with slaves who worked in sugar-cane and ......
Explores the figurative and symbolic function of animal imagery in the Bible, with particular attention to the structural and stylistic features of that imagery in the Book of Psalms.
This volume gathers the best previously unpublished and uncollected writings on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln scholarship by one of his great biographers, Benjamin P. Thomas. A skilled historian and a masterful storyteller himself, Thomas was widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. With these essays, he combines ......
Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his ''true profession.'' From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose ......
Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer," Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and John Cage, and is best known for his ......
Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2007).Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as ''one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer,'' Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry ......
Author Robin L. Owen demonstrates how US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan turned her religious faith and her faith in the Constitution into a powerful civil religious expression. Jordan's particular use of the Constitution-deeply connected with her background and identity-represents the agency and power reflected in her speeches.
Author Robin L. Owen demonstrates how US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan turned her religious faith and her faith in the Constitution into a powerful civil religious expression. Jordan's particular use of the Constitution-deeply connected with her background and identity-represents the agency and power reflected in her speeches.
