Author: Charles Francis ADAMS (U.S. Minister at the Court of St. James's.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
An Oration, delivered before the City Council and Citizens of Boston ... on the sixty-seventh anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1843
Author: Charles Francis ADAMS (U.S. Minister at the Court of St. James's.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
An Oration, Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, in Faneuil Hall, on the Sixty-seventh Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
City Documents
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Both Swords and Ploughshares
Author: Ineke BocktingPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443884782
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This collection of essays examines interactions of war, peace and religion in the United States, a country where religious faith was, and still is, often deeply felt and widely held, where faith has provided a set of values to uphold with fervor or to transgress in protest, and where religion has been used to legitimize both armed violence and passive resistance. These essays analyze the mythos of America as a place of religious freedom, yet one imbued with a socially-imposed civil religion and underpinned by a heavy presumption of Protestant dominance. With subjects ranging from the War of Independence to the early 21st century, the contributions to this volume focus on a variety of historical and chronological circumstances in order to consider what concrete, tangible outcomes, what artifacts, were produced by the interface of war, peace and religion – the swords and ploughshares of the title. This volume thus presents a variety of often multifaceted responses that reflect its interdisciplinary scope. Some contributions refer to fine art pieces, including statues, paintings, and murals, and others to works of literature, theology, or public speaking. Some of these interfaces were performed on stage or in film, while yet others were heard on the radio or read in newspapers or journals. Some of the essays gathered here concern individuals working through the meaning of armed conflict in terms of their own, personal faith, while others examine the impact of such conflicts on a larger scale, as with whole faith communities or in the shaping of national or foreign policy. The first part, Communities, looks at interfaces that served to structure a whole community. The second, Margins, examines instances where the relationship between religion and war and peace has occupied a more marginal space within a faith community. The final section turns this interface Outward, situating it away from American soil or noting how foreign war shaped the spirituality of those returning.
An Oration Delivered by Request of the City Authorities Before the Citizens of Boston, on the Sixty-fourth Anniversary of American Independence
Author: Thomas PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Mystic Chords of Memory
Author: Michael KammenPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307761401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 879
Book Description
Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic." —Washington Post Book World In this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—have been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly." —Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task . . . an importnat book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves." —Milwaukee Journal
The North American Review
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The North American Review
Author: Jared SparksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description