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Seize Freedom!

Author : Thaddeus G. McCotter
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497636396
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Seize Freedom! written by Thaddeus G. McCotter and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right now, parents suffer sleepless nights worrying that they will lose their jobs, their homes, and their hopes for their children. Citizens struggle to make sense of an increasingly perverse society disdainful of—and destructive to—the traditional culture of faith, truth, virtue, and beauty. Government—under both parties—has swollen to grotesque proportions, racked up staggering debt, and become a threat to Americans’ freedom. Former congressman Thaddeus McCotter makes a spirited cry for sanity in a chaotic age. Seize Freedom! boldly confronts a quartet of generational challenges that too many leaders ignore or belittle, and charts the path of truth and renewal for America. So many of our problems, the author shows, have been exacerbated by ideology, which John Adams aptly called the “science of idiocy.” With incisive thought and wicked humor McCotter attacks the idiocy that pervades Washington. Seize Freedom! is a guide for those concerned citizens and committed conservatives who wish to put an end to the ideologues’ simplistic solutions and false comforts. Well, that, and for anyone who wants a remedy for the usual ghostwritten claptrap that passes for “policy” or “campaign” books. This book won’t make you happier, but it will make you smarter.

Seizing Freedom

Author : David R. Roediger
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781686106
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Seizing Freedom written by David R. Roediger and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for “freedom” after the American Civil War How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Reinstating ex-slaves’ own “freedom dreams” in constructing these histories, Roediger creates a masterful account of the emancipation and its ramifications on a whole host of day-to-day concerns for Whites and Blacks alike, such as property relations, gender roles, and labor.

Between Form and Event: Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom

Author : M. Vatter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940159337X
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Between Form and Event: Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom written by M. Vatter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled. Machiavelli changed the terms of freedom, requiring that its discourse address the demand for no-rule or non-domination. Political freedom would then develop only through a strategy of antagonism to every form of legitimate domination. This leads to the emergence of modern political life: any institution that wishes to rule legitimately must simultaneously be inscribed with its immanent critique and imminent subversion. For Machiavelli, the possibility of instituting the political form is conditioned by the possibility of changing it in an event of political revolution. This book shows Machiavelli as a philosopher of the modern condition. For him, politics exists in the absence of those absolute moral standards that are called upon to legitimate the domination of man over man. If this understanding lies open to relativism and historicism, it does so in order to render effective the project of reinventing the sense of human freedom. Machiavelli's legacy to modernity is the recognition of an irreconcilable tension between the demands of freedom and the imperatives of morality.

More Than Freedom

Author : Stephen Kantrowitz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101575190
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book More Than Freedom written by Stephen Kantrowitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally understood as the moment African Americans became free, and Reconstruction as the ultimately unsuccessful effort to extend that victory by establishing equal citizenship. In More Than Freedom, award-winning historian Stephen Kantrowitz boldly redefines our understanding of this entire era by showing that the fight to abolish slavery was always part of a much broader campaign to establish full citizenship for African Americans and find a place to belong in a white republic. More Than Freedom chronicles this epic struggle through the lived experiences of black and white activists in and around Boston, including both famous reformers such as Frederick Douglass and Charles Sumner and lesser-known but equally important figures like the journalist William Cooper Nell and the ex-slaves Lewis and Harriet Hayden. While these freedom fighters have traditionally been called abolitionists, their goals and achievements went far beyond emancipation. They mobilized long before they had white allies to rely on and remained militant long after the Civil War ended. These black freedmen called themselves "colored citizens" and fought to establish themselves in American public life, both by building their own networks and institutions and by fiercely, often violently, challenging proslavery and inegalitarian laws and prejudice. But as Kantrowitz explains, they also knew that until the white majority recognized them as equal participants in common projects they would remain a suspect class. Equal citizenship meant something far beyond freedom: not only full legal and political rights, but also acceptance, inclusion and respect across the color line. Even though these reformers ultimately failed to remake the nation in the way they hoped, their struggle catalyzed the arrival of Civil War and left the social and political landscape of the Union forever altered. Without their efforts, war and Reconstruction could hardly have begun. Bringing a bold new perspective to one of our nation's defining moments, More Than Freedom helps to explain the extent and the limits of the so-called freedom achieved in 1865 and the legacy that endures today.

Freedom

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521132138
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Freedom written by Ira Berlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Freedom's Frontier

Author : Stacey L. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469607689
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Frontier written by Stacey L. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction

Freedom Soldiers

Author : Assistant Professor of History Jonathan Lande
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019753175X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Soldiers written by Assistant Professor of History Jonathan Lande and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom Soldiers examines the lives of formerly enslaved men who deserted the US Army during the Civil War and their experiences in army camps, courts, and prisons. It explores their reasons for leaving, often through their own voices from courts-martial testimony.

The Price of Freedom

Author : T. Stephen Whitman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183588
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Freedom written by T. Stephen Whitman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in border states where manumission was much more common. Whitman analyzes the economic and social history of Baltimore to show how the vigorous growth of the city required the exploitation of rural slaves. To prevent them from escaping and to spur higher production, owners entered into arrangements with their slaves, promising eventual freedom in return for many years' hard work. The Price of Freedom reveals how blacks played a critical role in freeing themselves from slavery. Yet it was an imperfect victory. Once Baltimore's economic growth began to slow, freed blacks were virtually excluded from craft apprenticeships, and European immigrants supplanted them as a trained labor force.

Inherit Your Freedom

Author : Mike Signorelli
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493447327
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Inherit Your Freedom written by Mike Signorelli and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we don't confront the generational curses and limitations we've inherited, we're doomed to relive them. Yet freedom is closer--and simpler--than you know! In this powerful, hope-filled book, rising international pastor Mike Signorelli guides you through a step-by-step process to confront and overcome cycles of ancestral trauma. Sharing his journey of transformation, Mike gives you the practical wisdom, real-world insights, and transformative biblical truth you need to · unearth your spiritual lineage--and limitations · recognize and break free from generational chains, curses, and sins · end negative cycles · embrace Christ-centered, victorious living · sustain your freedom · discover your God-ordained purpose · pass on a divine legacy You don't have to be trapped by the weight of your past or suffocated from the relentless grip of generational struggles. Seize freedom and healing today, and reclaim the future God destined for you--and your descendants.

Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era

Author : Jonathan A. Noyalas
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072670
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era written by Jonathan A. Noyalas and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Although the Valley was a site of fierce conflicts during the Civil War and its military activity has been extensively studied, scholars have largely ignored the Black experience in the region until now. Correcting previous assumptions that slavery was not important to the Valley, and that enslaved people were treated better there than in other parts of the South, Jonathan Noyalas demonstrates the strong hold of slavery in the region. He explains that during the war, enslaved and free African Americans navigated a borderland that changed hands frequently—where it was possible to be in Union territory one day, Confederate territory the next, and no-man’s land another. He shows that the region’s enslaved population resisted slavery and supported the Union war effort by serving as scouts, spies, and laborers, or by fleeing to enlist in regiments of the United States Colored Troops. Noyalas draws on untapped primary resources, including thousands of records from the Freedmen’s Bureau and contemporary newspapers, to continue the story and reveal the challenges African Americans faced from former Confederates after the war. He traces their actions, which were shaped uniquely by the volatility of the struggle in this region, to ensure that the war’s emancipationist legacy would survive. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Freedom Was in Sight

Author : Kate Masur
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469680203
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Was in Sight written by Kate Masur and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C., and its surrounding region were at the heart of these transformations, bravely working to reunite their families, build their communities, and claim rights long denied them. Meanwhile, in the capital, government leaders struggled to reunite and remake the nation. Famous individuals such as Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells played central roles, as did lesser-known figures like Emma Brown, the first African American teacher in Washington's public schools, and lawyer-journalist William Calvin Chase, longtime editor of the Washington Bee. Freedom Was in Sight! draws on the words and experiences of people who lived during Reconstruction, powerfully narrating how the impacts of emancipation and civil war rippled outward for decades. Vividly drawn by award-winning graphic artist Liz Clarke and written by Pulitzer Prize–finalist Kate Masur, a leading historian of Reconstruction, this rich graphic history reveals the hopes and betrayals of a critical period in American history.

Of Faith and Freedom

Author : joseph Gilbert
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1635751578
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Of Faith and Freedom written by joseph Gilbert and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It isn't very politically correct to say America is a Christian nation. However, the Founding Fathers were Christians and their core convictions were the bedrock upon which this country was built. These principles include the belief that as divine creations of God, we are all equal before the law, each citizen has intrinsic worth and value above any government, and our rights are endowed onto us by our Creator. These beliefs are not politically correct. Political correctness is an extension of cultural Marxism that seeks to remove every aspect of God and religion from American public life, including how we are governed. If they are successful, and they have been very successful so far, we lose what made America great in the first place. Our concept of the rule of law disappears, and the elite play by different rules than the rest of us. The belief that our rights come from God is removed. Our rights then can be twisted, manipulated, or stripped from us for political expediency. Worst of all, the divine nature of the creation of mankind with an immortal soul is gone. They can then do whatever they want. With no God, there is no objective right, wrong, good, or evil. The ends justify the means, and the perpetrators can execute their evils with a clean conscience because there is no sin. Cultural Marxism has been a powerful force in American culture for almost a century, shaping institutions such as school, family, and government. In the 1920s and during World War II, socialist ideas that originated at the Frankfurt School, also known as the Institute for Social Research, began to seep into the social fabric of the US. As the cultural Marxist movement gained power, the reach of the federal government expanded, and the basic value of each individual citizen was diminished. The role of the Judeo-Christian belief system, which emphasizes absolute truth and the dignity of the individual, has been ignored""with disastrous consequences. Using the Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights, author Joe Gilbert lays out the relationship God intended family, government, and individuals to have with each other and guides readers to a renewed hope and vision of American ideals shaped by objective biblical truth. Fans of Glenn Beck and Mark Levin will find Of Faith and Freedom a useful companion in the fight against the malevolent social forces that have so negatively influenced America.

Vestiges of Freedom

Author : William Venator
Publisher : WritersPrintShop
ISBN 13 : 9781904623304
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Vestiges of Freedom written by William Venator and published by WritersPrintShop. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses are believed to be extinct and pet ownership has been banned. A horrific war annihilated many cities. Trade and migration barriers have closed the Eunion. Welcome to the new feudal order with its alpha, beta, and gamma classes where corruption and intrigue dominate. The authorities don't like inquisitive, independent dreamers. Enter the world of Robin Bradbury a wealthy artist in the province of Mercia and guardian of a secret library. His dream it is to ride a horse, rumoured to be in the wasteland beyond the Eunion's borders.

The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292649
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America written by Edward L. Ayers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lincoln Prize A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective. At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world, followed by a political reconstruction in which new constitutions established the fundamental rights of citizens for formerly enslaved people. Few people living in 1860 would have dared imagine either event, and yet, in retrospect, both seem to have been inevitable. In a beautifully crafted narrative, Edward L. Ayers restores the drama of the unexpected to the history of the Civil War. From the same vantage point occupied by his unforgettable characters, Ayers captures the strategic savvy of Lee and his local lieutenants, and the clear vision of equal rights animating black troops from Pennsylvania. We see the war itself become a scourge to the Valley, its pitched battles punctuating a cycle of vicious attack and reprisal in which armies burned whole towns for retribution. In the weeks and months after emancipation, from the streets of Staunton, Virginia, we see black and white residents testing the limits of freedom as political leaders negotiate the terms of readmission to the Union. With analysis as powerful as its narrative, here is a landmark history of the Civil War.

On Freedom and the Will to Adorn

Author : Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469646919
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book On Freedom and the Will to Adorn written by Cheryl A. Wall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. The Souls of Black Folk, The Fire Next Time, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens are landmarks in African American literary history. Many other writers, such as Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Richard Wright, are acclaimed essayists but achieved greater fame for their work in other genres; their essay work is often overlooked or studied only in the contexts of their better-known works. Here Cheryl A. Wall offers the first sustained study of the African American essay as a distinct literary genre. Beginning with the sermons, orations, and writing of nineteenth-century men and women like Frederick Douglass who laid the foundation for the African American essay, Wall examines the genre's evolution through the Harlem Renaissance. She then turns her attention to four writers she regards as among the most influential essayists of the twentieth century: Baldwin, Ellison, June Jordan, and Alice Walker. She closes the book with a discussion of the status of the essay in the twenty-first century as it shifts its medium from print to digital in the hands of writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brittney Cooper. Wall's beautifully written and insightful book is nothing less than a redefinition of how we understand the genres of African American literature.

Freedom of the Screen

Author : Laura Wittern-Keller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813172640
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Freedom of the Screen written by Laura Wittern-Keller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, the proliferation of movies attracted not only the attention of audiences across America but also the apprehensive eyes of government officials and special interest groups concerned about the messages disseminated by the silver screen. Between 1907 and 1926, seven states—New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Kansas, Maryland, and Massachusetts—and more than one hundred cities authorized censors to suppress all images and messages considered inappropriate for American audiences. Movie studios, hoping to avoid problems with state censors, worrying that censorship might be extended to the federal level, and facing increased pressure from religious groups, also jumped into the censoring business, restraining content through the adoption of the self-censoring Production Code, also known as the Hays code.But some industry outsiders, independent distributors who believed that movies deserved the free speech protections of the First Amendment, brought legal challenges to censorship at the state and local levels. Freedom of the Screen chronicles both the evolution of judicial attitudes toward film restriction and the plight of the individuals who fought for the right to deliver provocative and relevant movies to American audiences. The path to cinematic freedom was marked with both achievements and roadblocks, from the establishment of the Production Code Administration, which effectively eradicated political films after 1934, to the landmark cases over films such as The Miracle (1948), La ronde (1950), and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1955) that paved the way for increased freedom of expression. As the fight against censorship progressed case by case through state courts and the U.S. Supreme Court, legal authorities and the public responded, growing increasingly sympathetic toward artistic freedom. Because a small, unorganized group of independent film distributors and exhibitors in mid-twentieth-century America fought back against what they believed was the unconstitutional prior restraint of motion pictures, film after 1965 was able to follow a new path, maturing into an artistic medium for the communication of ideas, however controversial. Government censors would no longer control the content of America’s movie screens. Laura Wittern-Keller’s use of previously unexplored archival material and interviews with key figures earned her the researcher of the year award from the New York State Board of Regents and the New York State Archives Partnership Trust. Her exhaustive work is the first to discuss more than five decades of film censorship battles that rose from state and local courtrooms to become issues of national debate and significance. A compendium of judicial action in the film industry, Freedom of the Screen is a tribute to those who fought for the constitutional right of free expression and paved the way for the variety of films that appear in cinemas today.

Imagine Freedom

Author : Rahiel Tesfamariam
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063253100
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Imagine Freedom written by Rahiel Tesfamariam and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to liberation and healing for people of African descent struggling in the shadows of the American Dream. The United States is at a critical juncture in its history. Not since the 1960s has the nation been so racially divided. White supremacy remains America’s Achilles’ heel—a moral failure that haunts us and holds us back from being the great nation we profess. For centuries, people of African descent have endured unimaginable hatred and discrimination which has manifested in pain and trauma passed from generation to generation. To break free from this historical cycle of suffering and be truly free at last, Black and brown people must reimagine ourselves, our communities, this country, and our relationship to Africa. Weaving storytelling, socioeconomic analysis, and cultural criticism with the spiritual and political threads of liberation theology and Pan Africanism, Imagine Freedom empowers us to begin the difficult but necessary work of decolonizing our minds and overcoming the lies we have been told about ourselves for centuries. Sobering and inspiring, filled with despair and hope, Rahiel Tesfamariam dares us to see the world through a larger historical and global lens— to understand how our quests for freedom and healing are intrinsically connected to our past, present, and future. By widening our vision, we discover new ways of imagining self, community, nation, and world, and most importantly, a new way to achieve the freedom that has been too long denied.