United States
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Craig Fehrman

In Baltimore, a man looked at a drugstore’s display of paperback books—each one priced at fifty cents. That made Senator Truman an upper middlebrow, and he enjoyed his era’s literary ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Ben Schwartz & Laura Moses [Schwartz, Ben/Moses, Laura and Moses, Laura & Moses, Laura]

Guy: I’ll pay for it. 53. Always reciprocate oral unless it’s your birthday. Girl: If I go down, you go down. Guy: Like the Titanic? Girl: Exactly. And if we ...
( Category: United States February 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Roy Morris Jr. [Morris, Roy Jr.]

THEIR FIRST VISIT WENT SO WELL THAT GERTRUDE AND ALICE returned to Chicago for a two-week stay on November 24. Once again Bobsy Goodspeed was their hostess, putting them up ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1959-01-15 | Author:Casey Rae [Rae, Casey]

Bunkers, Punkers, and Junkies Since music is registered with the whole body it can serve as a means of communication between one organism and another. . . . Agent attends ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman [Ehrman, Bart D.]

Our Need of Sources The first thing I need to stress is a point that I made in the introduction: anyone who says anything about Jesus (or about anybody else ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Matthew Mutter [Mutter, Matthew]

MAGIC, “CIVILIZATION,” AND SECULAR IMPERIALISM Prospero wants to take vengeance on the Romans. I discussed in the introduction the problem of contemporary critics who celebrate magic and occultism as a ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:G. L. Hagberg

It is clear that there can be little doubt that the narrator’s characterization of her appearance as “medieval” is justified. He unpacks the term in the context of this description ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Walt Whitman

As If a Phantom Caress’d Me AS if a phantom caress’d me, I thought I was not alone, walking here by the shore; But the one I thought was with ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 1970-01-15 | Author:Foner, Eric; [Foner, Eric;]

There is one duty we would earnestly urge upon the plain good sense and just feeling of our adopted citizens. It is the duty of thoroughly Americanizing themselves. . . ...
( Category: Political Parties January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-01 | Author:Marjorie Worthington

( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Paul B. Armstrong

* * * 1Joseph Conrad, “The Return, ” in Tales of Unrest (1898; rpt. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1924), p. 130. 2Joseph Conrad, Chance (1913; rpt. Garden City, N.Y.: ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Gary Gutting

From Descartes on, modern philosophy has been preoccupied with the question of whether our representations (experiences, ideas) accurately represent the world outside our minds. Descartes, for example, asked how we ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Richard W. Judd

Was Thoreau an Anarchist? The “Now Thoreau,” as the Ohio State Lantern put it, was not always so self-evident. In his American Mind in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Irving Bartlett assured ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Stamos, David N. [Stamos, David N.]

Contextualist History of Science There are different ways of doing history, and they need not converge given the very same topic. One way is history of ideas, which is popular ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edan Lepucki

I’d forgotten to tell the cleaning girl not to come anymore, so she showed up one final time, standing in the doorway, shifting her weight back and forth. I told ...
( Category: United States January 18,2020 )