Author: Kathleen M. Lesko
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 162616326X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling journey through more than two hundred years of history. A one-of-a-kind book, it invites readers to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.
Black Georgetown Remembered
Author: Kathleen M. Lesko
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 162616326X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling journey through more than two hundred years of history. A one-of-a-kind book, it invites readers to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 162616326X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling journey through more than two hundred years of history. A one-of-a-kind book, it invites readers to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393070255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393070255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.
Fire on Mount Zion
Author: Mabel B. Little
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Jews in Minnesota
Author: Hyman Berman
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873517385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Although never more than a small percentage of the Minnesota's population, Jews have made a remarkable contribution to the state in business, politics, and education.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873517385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Although never more than a small percentage of the Minnesota's population, Jews have made a remarkable contribution to the state in business, politics, and education.
Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia
Author: James Robert Saunders
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476632383
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and "substandard" conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely because they were deprived of a voice in government. Vinegar Hill's displaced residents discuss the loss of homes and businesses and the impact of the project on black life in Charlottesville. The interviews raise questions about motivations behind urban renewal. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476632383
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and "substandard" conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely because they were deprived of a voice in government. Vinegar Hill's displaced residents discuss the loss of homes and businesses and the impact of the project on black life in Charlottesville. The interviews raise questions about motivations behind urban renewal. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Palestine Explored. With a View to its Present Natural Features, and to the Prevailing Manners, Customs, Rites, and Colloquial Expressions of its People, which Throw Light on the Figurative Language of the Bible
Author: James Neil
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385460344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385460344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
A Glorious Institution
Author: Stanford Murrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953151100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953151100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi
Author: Carol V. R. George
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190231084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Carol George offers a micro-history of Neshoba County, Mississippi: a place that has decided to break its silence and confront a past of racial injustice and violence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190231084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Carol George offers a micro-history of Neshoba County, Mississippi: a place that has decided to break its silence and confront a past of racial injustice and violence.
History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens
Author: Gibson Lamb Cranmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Denmark Vesey Affair
Author: Egerton Douglas R. Egerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813068992
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vast collection of documents that illuminate one of the mostsophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the U.S. In1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named DenmarkVesey, were tried and executed for "attempting to raise aninsurrection" in Charleston, South Carolina. In The Denmark Vesey Affair,Douglas Egerton and Robert Paquette annotate and interpret a vast collection ofcontemporary documents that illuminate and contextualize this complicated saga,providing the definitive account of a landmark event that played a role in thenation's path to Civil War. The editors ultimately argue that the Vesey plotwas one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in thehistory of the United States. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and RandallM. Miller Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustainingthe Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813068992
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vast collection of documents that illuminate one of the mostsophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the U.S. In1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named DenmarkVesey, were tried and executed for "attempting to raise aninsurrection" in Charleston, South Carolina. In The Denmark Vesey Affair,Douglas Egerton and Robert Paquette annotate and interpret a vast collection ofcontemporary documents that illuminate and contextualize this complicated saga,providing the definitive account of a landmark event that played a role in thenation's path to Civil War. The editors ultimately argue that the Vesey plotwas one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in thehistory of the United States. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and RandallM. Miller Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustainingthe Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities.