Fighting To Preserve A Nation S Soul

Author : Bradley F. Abrams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742530248

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The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation by Bradley F. Abrams Pdf

The material effects of World War II, in combination with Eastern Europe's disappointingly undemocratic interwar history, placed radical social change on the postwar agenda across the region and shaped the debates that took place in immediate postwar Czech society. These debates adopted both a cultural form, in struggles over the meaning of the recent past and the nation's position on the East-West continuum, and a directly political form, in battles over the meaning of socialism. The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation examines the most important and politically resonant fields of historical and cultural debate in Czech society immediately after World War II. Bradley Abrams finds that communist public figures were largely successful in controlling debate over the nation's recent past--the interwar First Republic and the experiences of Munich and World War II--and over its location on the East-West continuum. This success preceded and was mirrored in the struggles over the political issue of the times: socialism. The communists engaged their political foes in the democratic socialist and Roman Catholic camps, and, surprisingly, found significant support from a major Protestant church. Abrams's careful reading of major publications re-creates a postwar mood sympathetic to radical social change, questioning the standard view of the communists' rise to power. This book not only contributes to the specific literature on Czech history, but also raises questions about the relationship between war and radical social change, about the communist takeover of the region, and about the role of intellectuals in public life.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Law
ISBN : MSU:31293011645136

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Robert Tarbell Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : UOM:39015035774986

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Korea's Fight for Freedom by Robert Tarbell Oliver Pdf

Author : Romain Rolland
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Above the Battle by Romain Rolland Pdf

Above the Battle is an anti-world war I treatise by Romain Rolland written in 1916. Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. Romain Rolland was a lifelong pacifist. He protested against the first World War in Above the Battle (Chicago, 1916).

Author : Thomas Aiello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440843587

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The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk by Thomas Aiello Pdf

In the 20 years between 1895 and 1915, two key leaders—Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois—shaped the struggle for African American rights. This book examines the impact of their fierce debate on America's response to Jim Crow and positions on civil rights throughout the 20th century—and evaluates the legacies of these two individuals even today. The debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington on how to further social and economic progress for African Americans lasted 20 years, from 1895 to Washington's death in 1915. Their ongoing conversation evolved over time, becoming fiercer and more personal as the years progressed. But despite its complexities and steadily accumulating bitterness, it was still, at its heart, a conversation—an impassioned contest at the turn of the century to capture the souls of black folk. This book focuses on the conversation between Washington and Du Bois in order to fully examine its contours. It serves as both a document reader and an authored text that enables readers to perceive how the back and forth between these two individuals produced a cacophony of ideas that made it anything but a bipolar debate, even though their expressed differences would ultimately shape the two dominant strains of activist strategy. The numerous chapters on specific topics and historical events follow a preface that presents an overview of both the conflict and its historiographical treatment; evaluates the legacies of both Washington and Du Bois, emphasizing the trajectories of their theories beyond 1915; and provides an explanation of the unique structure of the work.

Author : Susan R. Schrepfer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780299088538

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The Fight to Save the Redwoods by Susan R. Schrepfer Pdf

"This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from nineteenth-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism—and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history. . . . The subject is important—much broader than the title suggests—and so is the book."—American Historical Review

Author : David Everard Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Evangelistic work
ISBN : PRNC:32101066075464

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Decapolis, Or, The Individual Obligation of Christians to Save Souls from Death by David Everard Ford Pdf

Author : Christopher A. McAuley
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780268106034

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The Spirit vs. the Souls by Christopher A. McAuley Pdf

Despite the extensive scholarship on Max Weber (1864–1920) and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), very little of it examines the contact between the two founding figures of Western sociology. Drawing on their correspondence from 1904 to 1906, and comparing the sociological work that they produced during this period and afterward, The Spirit vs. the Souls: Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship examines for the first time the ideas that Weber and Du Bois shared on topics such as sociological investigation, race, empire, unfree labor, capitalism, and socialism. What emerges from this examination is that their ideas on these matters clashed far more than they converged, contrary to the tone of their letters and to the interpretations of the few scholars who have commented on the correspondence between Weber and Du Bois. Christopher McAuley provides close readings of key texts by the two scholars, including Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, to demonstrate their different views on a number of issues, including the economic benefits of unfree labor in capitalism. The book addresses the distinctly different treatment of the two figures's political sympathies in past scholarship, especially that which discredits some of Du Bois's openly antiracist academic work while failing to consider the markedly imperialist-serving content of some of Weber's. McAuley argues for the acknowledgment and demarginalization of Du Bois's contributions to the scholarly world that academics have generally accorded to Weber. This book will interest students and scholars of black studies, history, and sociology for whom Du Bois and Weber are central figures.

Author : Jon Meacham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780399589836

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The Soul of America by Jon Meacham Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women’s rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson’s crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear—a struggle that continues even now. While the American story has not always—or even often—been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, “The good news is that we have come through such darkness before”—as, time and again, Lincoln’s better angels have found a way to prevail. Praise for The Soul of America “Brilliant, fascinating, timely . . . With compelling narratives of past eras of strife and disenchantment, Meacham offers wisdom for our own time.”—Walter Isaacson “Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”—Newsday “Meacham gives readers a long-term perspective on American history and a reason to believe the soul of America is ultimately one of kindness and caring, not rancor and paranoia.”—USA Today

Author : Dr. Apostle Emmanuel Adebiyi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781456851415

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How to Obtain the Promises of God by Dr. Apostle Emmanuel Adebiyi Pdf

Every true believer must daily live for the promises and by the promises of God. Whosoever does not live by these promises is living for nothing, without God in the world and is spiritually aimless - Now we, brethren as Isaac was, are the children of promise. Galatians 4; 28. Daily connectors to the throne of mercy, where grace is obtain and strength and power is given against each day's evil, are those that are standing on the promises of God. Everything is derived by grace. We are saved, sustained and accomplished by grace The God of all grace, which is also our sufficiency, has made grace sufficient for all things. Nothing can be received, nor obtained from the throne of grace, except through the provisions from the promising notes, which is the word of God. Any day you failed to connect to the throne of grace, you are on your own - Without him, you can do nothing. Hebrews 4; 16. John 15; 5. For some, the promises of God are 7, 500 and to another 13,000 and to another 9,999 etc. The scripture is very clear that the promises of God go beyond numbers, counting and quantity. They are given by divine love, which surpasses human understanding, and that is why Apostle Peter calls them, EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES. 2 Peter 1; 4. There is no counting, neither limits, to what divine power which has given unto us all things that pertains to life and godliness can accomplished through us and for us, for he is able to do EXCEEDING ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK, ACCORDING TO HIS POWER THAT WORKS IN US O you that answered prayer, unto you all flesh shall come. When you want to gain the world without God in your world, youll end up losing all, including your own soul. This time around, it shall not be in a cave like lot, worst and much more, in the bottomless pit for all eternity - for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul For those who have been faithfully waiting up to seven years or more for promises given yet unfulfilled, 2011 is your year of eleventh hour of divine reward, says the Spirit of God.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008436250

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Catholic World by Anonim Pdf

Author : James M. Thomas
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820365091

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The Souls of Jewish Folk by James M. Thomas Pdf

The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late nineteenth-century Germany's struggle with its "Jewish question"-what to do with Germany's Jews-served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B. Du Bois's considerations of America's anti-Black racism at the turn of the twentieth century. Du Bois is wellknown for his characterization of the twentieth century's greatest challenge, "the problem of the color line." This proposition gained prominence in the conception of Du Bois'sThe Souls of Black Folk (1903), which engages the questions of race, racial domination, and racial exploitation. James M. Thomas contends that this conception of racism is haunted by the specter of the German Jew. In 1892 Du Bois received a fellowship for his graduate studies at the University of Berlin from the John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen. While a student in Berlin, Du Bois studied with some of that nation's most prominent social scientists. What The Souls of Jewish Folkasks readers to take seriously, then, is how our ideas, and indeed intellectual work itself, are shaped by and embedded within the nexus of people, places, and prevailing contexts of their time. With this book,Thomas examines how the major social, political, and economic events of Du Bois's own life-including his time spent living and learning in a latenineteenth-century Germany defined in no small part by its violent anti-Semitism-constitute the soil from which his most serious ideas about race, racism, and the global color line sprang forth.

Author : Paul M. Sparrow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639366682

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Awakening the Spirit of America by Paul M. Sparrow Pdf

A powerful new work of history that brings President Roosevelt, his allies, and his adversaries to life as he fought to transform America from an isolationist bystander into the world’s first superpower. “In today’s troubled times, with authoritarianism escalating at home and abroad, Sparrow’s book reads like an all-hands-on-deck wakeup call. Highly recommended!”—Douglas Brinkley Franklin Roosevelt awoke at 2:50 a.m. on September 1, 1939 to the news that Germany had invaded Poland, signaling the start of World War II. The president had warned for years that Hitler’s fascist regime posed an existential threat to democracy, but the American public remained stubbornly isolationist as fascist sympathizing groups, egged on by right wing media stars promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, plotted to overthrow the president. The situation was dire, and Roosevelt quickly found himself facing an unexpected adversary: Charles Lindbergh. Wildly popular, the famed aviator's youthful charm, plainspoken rhetoric, and media magnetism earned him a massive following as he led an aggressive attack on FDR’s policies. Millions listened to Linberg’s radio broadcasts and attended his rallies. Powerful individuals including William Randolph Hearst, Henry Ford, and members of Congress supported him. The German government provided secret funds to Lindbergh’s Nazi followers as he led the radical America First Committee in an effort to prevent Roosevelt from aiding England’s survival—and the world’s. Awakening the Spirit of America brilliantly shows how Roosevelt overcame the forces aligned against him in a war against fascism. Paul Sparrow, former director of the FDR Presidential Library, reveals how FDR's triumph of leadership was by no means a foregone conclusion. Roosevelt’s astute political maneuvers and persuasive use of language to preserve what he termed “the spirit of America” changed history and can still inspire today. Sparrow brings readers into the rooms where key decisions were made, focusing on the crucial role words, media, and propaganda played in the transformation of America into the protector of the free world. Awakening the Spirit of America provides a riveting, inside account of FDR’s ultimate victory over pro-Nazi isolationists and provides vital insight into American history and an iconic president.

Author : John Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Bible
ISBN : ONB:+Z221581000

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The Coming Struggle Among the Nations of the Earth: Or, the Political Events of the Next Fifteen Years Described in Accordance with Prophecies in Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Apocalypse (etc.) by John Thomas Pdf

Author : Rick D. Boyer
Publisher : Ambassador International
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781649600899

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God, Caesar, and Idols: The Church and the Struggle for America’s Soul by Rick D. Boyer Pdf

Once “one nation under God,” America today is desperately sick. And the Church seems to have no answers. How can a nation so “churched” be so untouched by the Gospel? Why has “the Glory departed,” leaving a nation racked by political hatred, drug addiction, and shattered families? God, Caesar, and Idols asks these questions and calls the Church to seek God’s Word for answers. Too many Christians no longer make political choices on the basis of eternal truth, but instead make them on the basis of purely financial considerations. It’s time for the Church to break its addiction to humanistic, government schooling and instead “bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” This book challenges the Church to reject “cheap grace” and the easy temptation to be “tolerant” of society’s rebellion. We must again honor the authority of God’s Word and embrace the life-altering power available when we reject our cultural idols and proclaim “the whole counsel of God” without compromise. Armed with careful scriptural exegesis and supported by the words of great Christians from church history, God, Caesar, and Idols encourages the American Church to again “contend for the faith” in today’s culture—whatever the cost.