War and Speech

Reducere. DescriptionThe Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. W...

The demand for free speech on campus is a distraction, we need to follow the moneyPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Isaac KamolaNumber of pages: 256...

DescriptionRoman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape fu...

Reducere. DescriptionSojourner Truth (born Isabella (Belle) Baumfree) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into s...

Reducere. Mean Girls meets the debate team in this fish-out-of-water story about a teen girl determined to sabotage the elitist speech team at her new school...

Reducere. Mean Girls meets the debate team in this fish-out-of-water story about a teen girl determined to sabotage the elitist speech team at her new school...

The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg comprise perhaps the most famous speech in histo...

Reducere. In 1946, in the midst of global turmoil and after being voted out of office, Winston Churchill made a trip to the unlikely venue of Fulton, Missour...

From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of sp...

Reducere. As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Linc...

Down in the Holler, first published in 1953, is a classic study of Ozark folklore. The University of Oklahoma Press is especially pleased to introd...

Set in 1968, the year of Enoch Powell's infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech, The Nowhere Man is an intricate, perceptive tragedy of alienation center...

Reducere. On September 15, 1959, Georges Vanier, Canada's Governor-General soon-to-be, began his acceptance speech with the following invocation: "Mr. Prime ...

Reframing remembrance is an investigation into French cinema's representation of the Second World War. Focusing on films released between 1995 and ...

Reducere. A collection of essays by America's most prominent anarchist, feminist, and critic of both capitalism and communism, who was imprisoned and deporte...

Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Winter War, then keep reading...In December 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill m...

Reducere. The ancient city of Troy really existed. The Trojan War that figures in Homer's two great epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, really happened. B...

From the acclaimed author of }War Horse{ comes this heartwarming short story based on the true story of boy whose confidence and speech returns aft...

Reducere. The first career-spanning volume of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, featuring comic art from World War II, Kor...

With this "rich, complex, and eloquent" (Drew Gilpin Faust, Atlantic) work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gorra charts the evolution of an author...

A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, u...

Reducere. From the author of the esteemed epic poem, Paradise Lost, comes one history's most influential arguments against censorship. John Milton was known ...

This comprehensive collection of carefully edited documents--speeches, treaties, statements, and articles--traces the rise and fall of the Cold War...

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

Description"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and in moments of comfort, but where he stands in moment...

From post-truth politics to "no-platforming" on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield f...

DescriptionIn the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress ...

Reducere. This vigorous call-to-arms to reignite American citizenship at home and restore American power abroad by the Fox News contributor and decorated Ira...

Reducere. George VI was the man not born to be king. He nonetheless rescued the British monarchy in the aftermath of the abdication crisis and cemented its p...

Reducere. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Freder...

DescriptionKarin Michaelis (1872-1950) was a Danish author. She wrote 36 novels for adults, 9 children's books, 2 autobiographies plus numerous oth...

Reducere. Shakespeare s rousing tale of war and peace between England and France during the reign of Henry V springs to life in this unabridged, full-color g...

Reducere. after troy, Taban lo Liyong's booklength poem, is an expansive and engaging elaboration of two classical Greek texts, Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus...

Ashe led a hunger strike in Lewes Prison in May 1917 and was released under a general amnesty in June. He was re-arrested in August for a speech he...

DescriptionAvailable in English for the first time, we read the heart-warming, moving and intensely personal letters that the young soldiers wrote ...

How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once...

Reducere. "US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide" is a monument to free speech in a time of cowardice and widespread censorship. The book d...

"US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide" is a monument to free speech in a time of cowardice and widespread censorship. The book d...

Reducere. Poetry. In his third collection; THE LATITUDE OF A MERCY; Stefan Lovasik offers a testament of unflinching immediacy; conflicted sensitivity; and l...

Reducere. One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown's Body is Stephen Vincent Ben t's masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great e...

This is a wonderful collection of Lincoln's most famous speeches in complete and unabridged form. The simple yet memorable eloquence of his speeche...

Reducere. Help make spelling more appealing to your child with this collection of 70 brightly colored, fun-themed word lists! Explore words related to topics...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at A...

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

Reducere. "There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery, " wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of f...

Reducere. A crackling portrayal of everyday American heroines...A triumph. -- Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue A g...

Reducere. DescriptionEmma Goldman is one of the most celebrated activists and philosophers of the early 20th century, admired and reviled for her anarchist i...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf education regarded sign language as the "natural la...

He was the top male box office attraction at the movies, one of the most widely read newspaper columnists in America, a radio commentator with an a...

July 1918. Preparing to speak to an eager audience, 61-year-old Teddy Roosevelt receives the telegram that all parents of children who serve in war...

Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-BiographyHe was the top male box office attraction at the movies, one of the most widely read newspap...

Reducere. Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience o...

Reducere. DescriptionHighly controversial in Austria, this play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers th...

Reducere. Pam Roswell Moore had her doubts when she interviewed to be companion of the much-loved author Corrie ten Boom. Corrie's best-selling book The Hidi...

Reducere. In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-wo...

Reducere. "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who will speak it." - George Orwell "I refuse to accept the view that man...

Reducere. The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and o...

Reducere. Eighty-five percent of Italy's Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and th...

Reducere. Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, ``The Sea and the Mirror`` is not merely a great poem but ranks as one ...

Reducere. Through the postwar collective innocence of the 1950s and sucked into the swirling vortex of the 1960s counterculture in Washington DC, the author,...

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 195...

Reducere. The "magisterial" (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraha...

Reducere. The Death of Caesar. The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC-the...

Reducere. A reprint of a 1920 classic surveying the world racial situation after World War I and warning of the coming non-White population explosion. "The w...

"This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kip...

Reducere. Today's eighteen-year-olds may not know who Mrs. Robinson is, the size of a breadbox, or why going postal refers to a major uproar. Such "retroterm...

Reducere. First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive, objective, and accessible source of critically important information on th...

Reducere. Description"Ride hard, swing hard, and take out as many of those creepy critters as you can."Twelve year old Matt Del Toro is the greenest greenhor...

DescriptionIn a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the ...