War and Speech

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. 'STOP HEY, WHAT'S THAT SOUND?' The 1960's Revolution and Birth of the Jesus People is a crossover history on Social Change Movements in the US and ...

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...

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

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

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...

Reducere. Civil war hero and adventurer Thomas Scoundrel didn't expect the search for his friend's fiancée in frontier Colorado to be easy. He also didn't ex...

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. Fascist Voices contains a unique and uncompromising collection of essays that appeared in Fascist Quarterly during the turbulent 1930s. This public...

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

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. During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recen...

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

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. Norvel Lee, an unsung historical figure, rightfully should be included on a list of famous African Americans.On a September morning in 1948 - while...

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...

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the a...

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

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

"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...

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

Reducere. Peanuts reaches the middle of the go-go 1980s in this book, which covers 1985 and 1986: a time of hanging out at the mall, "punkers" (you haven't l...

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...

Reducere. Daniel Berrigan (+2016+) is most notorious for dramatic anti-war actions at a Catonsville draft board and a Pennsylvania nuclear weapons plant in t...

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. 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...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. Peace cannot be attained as long as there are ideologies that promote hate. People don't naturally do evil. They do evil when indoctrinated. Good p...

Reducere. "Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason." --JORDAN PETERSON *USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER* There's a war agains...

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...

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

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

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...

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run...

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

Reducere. In When We Free the World, acclaimed writer and activist Kevin Powell presents a stunning and brutally honest survey of America, yesterday and toda...

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...

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. 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. 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. DescriptionIt's as if we're living in an episode of the Twilight Zone. Every day we are inundated by news reports, trending topics on social media,...

Reducere. Daniel Berrigan (+2016+) is most notorious for dramatic anti-war actions at a Catonsville draft board and a Pennsylvania nuclear weapons plant in t...

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

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

Reducere. Here is a History Reader about a great man and his famous speech. Now available in Step into Reading, the premier leveled reader line. Abraham Linc...

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. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. THE YELLOW BOOK, a cross-genre meditation on what it means to be Korean/American and write, be...

Reducere. Winner, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Best Regional Fiction - Southwest Finalist, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Literary Fiction Fina...

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

Reducere. Through the postwar collective innocence of the 1950s and sucked into the swirling vortex of the 1960s counterculture in Washington DC, the 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. Norvel Lee, an unsung historical figure, rightfully should be included on a list of famous African Americans.On a September morning in 1948 - while...

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...

Reducere. "The Church is the conscience of the State, " wrote Martin Luther King, Jr., but is it anymore? With threats of Hate Crime Legislation and the Fair...

Reducere. Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller that takes readers on a riotous journey through the mind of one of America's premier comics George ...

Reducere. Seize, Brian Komei Dempster's follow-up to Topaz, spares no one the highs and lows of fatherhood. The speaker struggles to care for his young and a...

In 1875 Ohio, twelve-year-old Cap Cooper is an aspiring inventor--and a reluctant graverobber--enlisted by his father to help pay for his mother's ...

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

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...

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...

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

Reducere. He thought he was the chosen one, a warrior of the gods. He had no idea that his god was a demon. After twenty years, Voran has faced his deadly en...

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...