William J: 1364 books

Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition...

CONTENTS H. W. COLLINGWOOD 1. Indian Pete's Christmas Gift HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 2. The Fir-Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 3. The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 4. The Little Match Girl HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 5. Betty's Bright Idea HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 6. Christmas In Poganuc...

In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the men...

Michael J. Coumatos is a former U.S. Navy test pilot, ship's captain, and commodore; U.S. Space Command director of wargaming; and a government counterterrorism advisor. William Scott is a retired bureau chief of Aviation Week and Space Technology and a nine-year Air force veteran who served as aircrew...

Turn back the clock. It's the start of the 20th century in New York City. Police Officer Redmond Keresey is on patrol astride his magnificent horse, Pompey. Redmond has no cell phone or even a two-way radio to summon assistance. But he has a unique partner: Pompey. Together they can rapidly respond...

William J. Anderson was born in 1811 to a free mother and a slave father. Andersons own mother sold him into slavery after his father died. Anderson escaped in 1836 and wrote an autobiography on his experience as a slave. This edition includes a table of contents.

A single-volume edition of William J. Bennett's bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated.  *"The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett's wonderfully readable book is so important." *--Walter Isaacson A decade...

English Literature by William J. Long -Included TOC for Reader. -Included biography the author. This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has three specific aims. The first is to...

"William Murray provides a unique perspective that should be read, particularly by America's youth, at a time central planners are once again promising utopian dreams at a cost to the most productive among us.” —Governor Mike Huckabee Utopian dreamers are deceived and deceiving. Their...

The “Dictatorship of Relativism”, the dominant culture of the post-modern world with its ideological roots in the Cartesian, Protestant, and French revolutions, is ultimately a revolt against Truth. It argues that man is incapable of knowing reality as reality but merely as physical-mathematical...

William J. Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in two volumes of America: The Last Best Hope. While national test scores reveal that American students know startlingly little about their history, former U.S. Education Secretary William J. Bennett offers one of the most gripping and...

William Coleman thought he was on the way to success as a bank clerk in Chester, S.C., in the spring of 1861. Then his employer sent him a petticoat to shame him into joining the militia and fighting the Yankees. He did, sure "the silliness" would end once everyone calmed down.He was wrong.

William James (1842-1910) is a canonical figure of American pragmatism. Trained as a medical doctor, James was more engaged by psychology and philosophy and wrote a foundational text, Pragmatism, for this characteristically American way of thinking. Distilling the main currents of James's thought,...

The 1960s in Newark, New Jersey, were a crucible of racial tensions. While the civil rights movement slowly planted the seeds of hope and resilience across the rest of the nation, the movement in Newark faced intense challenges from an entrenched and racist political power structureculminating in...