In the 1980s, Army Chaplain Corps adopted the credo "Nurture the living. / Care for the wounded. / Honor the dead." It summarizes more than 200 years of chaplain ministry with soldiers during war and
Macon is located at the head of navigation on the Ocmulgee River in the center of Georgia. In 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, Macon was a business community dedicated to supplying the needs o
The 1971 season saw many changes for the University of Alabama football team, within the context of the social and political changes of the Civil Rights Movement, examining in detail, with probing int
Follows the amazing lives of Ida and Isidor Straus--who rose to become the the owners of Macy's Department Store in New York--including their humble beginnings, experiences with anti-Semitism and unti
Neither side's army had an office in charge of chaplains, so information about the some 4,000 who served during the Civil War was scattered and nearly lost before researchers began search and recovery
From wherever Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) is read, scholars of philosophy comment on the three works he published pseudonymously. Their topics include paratextualism in Prefaces and contemporary liter
This volume gathers eight essays on African-American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois from the spring 2001 conference, W.E.B. Do Bois and Frantz Fanon: Post-colonial linkages and Trans-Atlantic Receptions.
Georgia's music history is diverse in that it covers gospel singer Thomas Dorsey, soul singer James Brown, opera singer Jessye Norman, country singer Alan Jackson, folk singer Hedy West and symphony a
Two things this book is not: a guide to handling snakes, and yet another academic account of exotic backwoods practices right here in the heart of the civilization. Morrow is a native Appalachian, pas
This biography describes President Carter's life from his early years through his education, military service, his peanut farm business, and his political career, from state senator in 1962, govern
The political corruption, gambling, and murder that nearly brought down an Alabama town during the Depression. In the first chronological and gripping narrative of the events that crippled Phenix C
