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- Huron / by Webster, Christine.; Willis, John,1989-;
- Provides information on the Huron with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.LSC
- Subjects: Wyandot Indians;
- Iroquois / by Lomberg, Michelle.; Willis, John,1989-;
- Provides information on the Iroquois with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.LSC
- Subjects: Iroquois Indians;
- Reasons for Christianity’s Success. by D. Ehrman, Bart,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Bart D. EhrmanOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2021.How did a group of 20 or so illiterate disciples grow into the largest religion in the Roman world?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle / by Meacham, Jon,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen in popular minds as the greatest of American presidents--a remote icon--or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln--an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment was essential to the story of justice in America. Here is the Lincoln who, as a boy, was steeped in the sermons of emancipation by Baptist preachers; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him light to see the right. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on Good Friday 1865: his rise, his self-education through reading, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans of the nineteenth century, Lincoln's story illuminates the ways and means of politics, the marshaling of power in a belligerent democracy, the durability of white supremacy in America, and the capacity of conscience to shape the maelstrom of events"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents; Slavery; Slaves;
- Life in ancient Japan / by Richardson, Hazel.;
- Describes various aspects of the life of the ancient Japanese, including religion and beliefs, arts and culture and traditions.LSC
- © c2005., Crabtree Pub.,
- Turkey / by Mattern, Joanne,1963-;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Geography -- History -- Government -- Economy -- Environment -- The people today -- Lifestyle -- Religion -- Language -- Arts and festivals -- Fun and play -- Food.LSC
- Ancient Chinese / by Binns, Tristan Boyer,1968-;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 31), Internet address and index.Presents an overview of ancient Chinese civilization, including its geography, government, religion, social classes, recreation, art, and architecture.
- © 2007, c2005., Compass Point Books,
- The pope at war : the secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler / by Kertzer, David I.,1948-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and festered, making Pius XII one of the most controversial popes in Church history, especially now as the Vatican prepares to canonize him. In 2020, Pius XII's archives were finally opened, and David I. Kertzer--widely recognized as one of the world's leading Vatican scholars--has been mining this new materialever since, revealing how the pope came to set aside moral leadership in order to preserve his church's power. Based on thousands of never-before-seen documents not only from the Vatican, but from archives in Italy, Germany, France, Britain, and the United States, The Pope at War paints a new, dramatic portrait of what the pope did and did not do as war enveloped the continent and as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews. The book clears away the myths and sheer falsehoods surrounding the pope's actions from 1939 to 1945, showing why the pope repeatedly bent to the wills of Hitler and Mussolini"--
- Subjects: Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958; Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.; Catholic Church; Catholic Church; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Judaism; National socialism and religion.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
- Ancient African kingdoms / by Sheehan, Sean,1951-;
- Describes different aspects of ancient African kingdoms, including their history, politics, religion, art, architecture, and everyday life.Includes bibliographical references (page 63) and index.The first kingdoms -- Ghana, Mali, Ife, and Great Zimbabwe -- Benin : the forest kingdom -- Later kingdoms -- Politics, war, and trade -- Ideas and religion -- Art, architecture, and poetry -- Everyday life -- The legacy of the kingdoms.
- Subjects: Literature.; History.; Juvenile works.; Nonfiction.; Literature.; Civilization.;
- © 2011., Gareth Stevens Pub.,
- Medieval life / by Langley, Andrew.; Brightling, Geoff.; Dann, Geoff.; Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.;
- An illustrated look at various aspects of life in medieval Europe, covering, amongst other things, everyday life, religion and royalty.
- Subjects: Civilization, Medieval; Middle Ages;
- © c2004., DK Pub.,
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