The Humanities In The American Life
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Author | : Commission on the Humanities (1978- ) |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520041837 |
Examines the present position of the humanities in the educational system and culture of the United States and recommends methods for finding sources of financial support for the humanities
Author | : Commission on the Humanities (1978- ) |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520042087 |
Examines the present position of the humanities in the educational system and culture of the United States and recommends methods for finding sources of financial support for the humanities
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : NON-CLASSIFIABLE. |
ISBN | : 9780520311787 |
Author | : Samantha Allen Wright |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1839096721 |
American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion bridges a gap in the market by linking the medical humanities with disability studies. It examines how Americans used life writing to record epidemic disease throughout history.
Author | : Michael Lofaro |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010-09-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0813128862 |
" The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age—the westward movement of the American people. Daniel Boone: An American Life brings together over thirty years of research in an extraordinary biography of the quintessential pioneer. Based on primary sources, the book depicts Boone through the eyes of those who knew him and within the historical contexts of his eighty-six years. The story of Daniel Boone offers new insights into the turbulent birth and growth of the nation and demonstrates why the frontier forms such a significant part of the American experience.
Author | : Commission on the Humanities |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : V.S.A |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1981-04 |
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Author | : United States. Panel on the Quality of American Life |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Philip Goff |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190468947 |
There is a paradox in American Christianity. According to Gallup, nearly eight in ten Americans regard the Bible as either the literal word of God or inspired by God. At the same time, surveys have revealed gaps in these same Americans' biblical literacy. These discrepancies reveal the complex relationship between American Christians and Holy Writ, a subject that is widely acknowledged but rarely investigated. The Bible in American Life is a sustained, collaborative reflection on the ways Americans use the Bible in their personal lives. It also considers how other influences, including religious communities and the Internet, shape individuals' comprehension of scripture. Employing both quantitative methods (the General Social Survey and the National Congregations Study) and qualitative research (historical studies for context), The Bible in American Life provides an unprecedented perspective on the Bible's role outside of worship, in the lived religion of a broad cross-section of Americans both now and in the past. The Bible has been central to Christian practice, and has functioned as a cultural touchstone From the broadest scale imaginable, national survey data about all Americans, down to the smallest details, such as the portrayal of Noah and his ark in children's Bibles, this book offers insight and illumination from scholars across the intellectual spectrum. It will be useful and informative for scholars seeking to understand changes in American Christianity as well as clergy seeking more effective ways to preach and teach about scripture in a changing environment.
Author | : Allyson Hobbs |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 067436810X |
Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss. As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one’s birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one’s own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied—and often outweighed—these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to “pass out” and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions.