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John Calvin is the most notable figure from the Reformed tradition Unfortunately he is often characterized as a stern and cerebral individual who had little concern for practical matters However Calvin was actually influential in promoting a profound sense of piety among early Protestantism InThe Soul of Life Joel R Beeke presents the life and…
The story of a remarkable era of reform controversy optimism and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953 the sixties era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived with renewed emphasis…
For 30 years much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union As bad as Vladimir Lenin seemed in the early 20th century Joseph Stalin was so much worse that Churchill later remarked of Lenin Their worst misfortune was his birth their…
Do you know the bloody story of the Spanish Civil War and what we need to learn from it to understand todays world
The Spanish conquest of the Americas is a pivotal part of the history of colonization
By the time Christopher Columbus started setting east from the New World he had explored San Salvador in the Bahamas which he thought was Japan Cuba which he thought was China and Hispaniola the source of gold As the common story goes Columbus en route back to Spain from his first journey called in at…
When people think about the Second World War they seldom think in terms of silence and small acts This was a war in which the industry of entire nations was rearranged to feed fighting and it was fought on a scale in which battles could include hundreds of thousands of combatants Whole cities and populations…
It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman but it was also not an empire in the sense people expect when hearing the term In theory the emperor was the highest prince in Christendom and his dominion extended the length and breadth of Western Europe The empire…
The Stonewall Brigade went on to fight in every major battle in the Eastern theater of the American Civil War to the extent that of the 6000 men who fought with the brigade over the course of four years less than 200 remained by the time General Robert E Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on…
A fascinating journey through Europes old towns exploring why we treasure thembut also what they hide about a continents fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World Warsome like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt had to be rebuilt almost completely They are now centers…
Storm of Steel is a gripping memoir of World War I written by Ernst Jnger a German officer who served on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 Jnger recounts his experiences in vivid and unflinching detail from the horrors of trench warfare and gas attacks to the camaraderie and courage of his fellow soldiers…
In The Story of Scandinavia political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1200 years of drama economic rise and fall crises kings and queens war peace language and culture Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts from the Viking Age to the Age of Perpetual War to the modern age…
History will never be the same again This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauers Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times Now more than ever other countries and customs affect our everyday livesand our children need to learn about the…
History will never be the same again This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauers Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times Now more than ever other countries and customs affect our everyday livesand our children need to learn about the…
History will never be the same again This spirited reading of the newly revised fourth edition in Susan Wise Bauers Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of the modern age Now more than ever other countries and customs affect our everyday livesand our children need…
From 1955 to 1975 Vera Pigee 19242007 put her life and livelihood on the line with grassroots efforts for social change in Mississippi principally through her years of leadership in Coahoma Countys NAACP Known as the Lady of Hats coined by NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins Pigee was a businesswoman mother and leader Her book…
In The Subversive Seventies Michael Hardt sets out to show that popular understandings of the political movements of the seventiesoften seen as fractious violent and largely unsuccessfulare not just inaccurate but foreclose valuable lessons for the political struggles of today While many accounts of the 1970s have been written about the regimes of domination that…
The Sum and Substance of the Gospelintroduces readers to the life and writings of one of the greatest preachers of the modern era Charles Haddon Spurgeon 18341892 Nathan A Finn and Aaron Lumpkins introduction traces the life and ministry of this great London pastor focusing on Spurgeons commitment to the gospel and the Lord Jesus…
The discovery of Robert E Lees Special Orders No 191 outside of Frederick Maryland on September 13 1862 is one of the most important and hotly disputed events of the American Civil War For more than 150 years historians have debated if George McClellan commander of the Union Army of the Potomac dawdled after receiving…
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