State category: 3605 books
West Virginia
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
" An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape....
The Religious Roots of the First Amendment
Dissenting Protestants and the Separation of Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "Enlightenment" and the republican ethos of citizenship. In The Religious Roots of the First Amendment, Nicholas P. Miller does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment...
Church, State, and Race
The Discourse of American Religious Liberty, 1750–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750–1900). Discussions of religious liberty in America during this time often revolved around the fitness...
Giant Country
Essays on Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
In Giant Country Don Graham brings together a collection of lively, absorbing essays written over the past two decades. The collection begins with a twist on book introductions that sets the tone for the essays to come—a self-interview conducted poolside at an eccentric Houston motel favored by regional...
Servants of the Law
Judicial Politics on the California Frontier, 1849-89
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created a lasting influence on the politics and judicial history of California's Supreme Court during the court's formative years of 1855 to 1865. These jurists shared the state's highest...
by Toby Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This treatise offers an alternative paradigm to the 'Big Bang' theory of the origin of the universe. It takes a fresh look at current cosmological knowledge, suggests the existence of and defines a Megamassive Black Hole. The existence of such bodies allows a rational argument for a steady state universe....
Attack of the Theocrats
How the Religious Right Harms Us All-and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
At no time in history has the United States had such a high percentage of theocratic members of Congress—those who expressly endorse religious bias in law. Just as ominously, especially for those who share the values and views of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, at no other time have religious...
Godless
The Church of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.
Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals...
The American Constitutional Tradition
Colonial Charters, Covenants, and Revolutionary State Constitutions, 1578–1780
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The book is a work of non-fiction. The book is a historical analysis of the evolution of a uniquely American constitutionalism that began with the original English royal charters for the exploration and exploitation of North America. When the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787, the accepted conception...
Sword and Shield
A Practical Approach to Section 1983 Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Section 1983 claims are as
legally and factually complex as ever. Every official policy or conduct of state
government is potentially subject to a suit on some constitutional or statutory
theory of liability – such as tracing the lines of authority that set forth the
parameters for an illegal search...
Texas Cemeteries
The Resting Places of Famous, Infamous, and Just Plain Interesting Texans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing mausoleum, every marker in a Texas cemetery bears witness to a life that—in ways small or large—helped shape the history and culture of the state. Telling the stories of some of these significant lives is the purpose of this book....
Time before History
The Archaeology of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled...
by John Howard Yoder
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Our purpose is to analyze whether it is truly the case that a Christian pacifist position rooted not in pragmatic or psychological but in Christological considerations is thereby irrelevant to the social order.-John Howard YoderThese words by John Howard Yoder set the course of his pathbreaking...
by Jon Axline
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
For more than seventy years Montanans and tourists have pulled over to enjoy reading the state’s roadside historical and geological markers. The brainchild of gifted storyteller Bob Fletcher, the original signs told colorful stories of Montana's Indians and pioneers; the signs have since been expanded...