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This book explains in detail the practice of masoncraft in the
Middle Ages, using evidence from a number of sources. Monastic
chronicles, building contracts and other contemporary documents
have already revealed a good deal of information on the subject,
but less attention has, until now, been paid to archaeological
evidence preserved in numerous surviving Medieval buildings. Dr
Hislop investigates how a study of certain features in these
buildings, such as the stonework and building joints, can
contribute to our knowledge of working practices of masons in
medieval England. By focusing on how to interpret clues in the
building structure, this account provides a practical guide to
pursuing the study of masonry, and helps the reader to understand
and identify the medieval mason's approach to design and
constructional techniques.
New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon
S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the
United States. The half century extending from the imperial crisis
between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades
of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most
creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps
in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated
all aspects of politics and constitutionalism-the nature of power,
liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between
different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority,
and written constitutions. The results of these issues produced
institutions that have lasted for over two centuries. In this new
book, eminent historian Gordon S. Wood distills a lifetime of work
on constitutional innovations during the Revolutionary era. In
concise form, he illuminates critical events in the nation's
founding, ranging from the imperial debate that led to the
Declaration of Independence to the revolutionary state constitution
making in 1776 and the creation of the Federal Constitution in
1787. Among other topics, he discusses slavery and
constitutionalism, the emergence of the judiciary as one of the
major tripartite institutions of government, the demarcation
between public and private, and the formation of states' rights.
Here is an immensely readable synthesis of the key era in the
making of the history of the United States, presenting timely
insights on the Constitution and the nation's foundational legal
and political documents.
Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love,
escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the
Catskills. A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of
Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021 An uplifting
tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times,
exhilarating.--Wall Street Journal A gripping narrative that reads
like a page turning thriller novel.--NPR In the summer of 1942, the
Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish
town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They
miraculously survived two years in the woods--through brutal
winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids--until they
were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked
across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before
eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first
ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip
by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance
encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the
woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love
of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one
family's inspiring true story.
All-Black institutions and local community groups have been at the
forefront of the freedom struggle since the beginning. Lifting the
Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the
Civil War, told by one of our most distinguished historians of
modern America, William H. Chafe. He argues that, despite the
wishes and arguments of many whites to the contrary, the struggle
for freedom has been carried out primarily by Black Americans, with
only occasional assistance from whites. Chafe highlights the role
of all-black institutions—especially the churches, lodges, local
gangs, neighborhood women's groups, and the Black college clubs
that gathered at local pool halls—that talked up the issues,
examined different courses of action, and then put their lives on
the line to make change happen. The book draws heavily on the
tremendous oral history archives at Duke that Chafe founded and
nurtured, much of which is previously unpublished. The the archives
are now a collection of more than 3,600 oral histories tracing the
evolution of Black activism, managed under the auspices of the Duke
Center for Documentary History. Taking its title from a phrase
coined by W.E.B. DuBois in 1903, the project uncovered the degree
to which Blacks never gave up the struggle against racism, even
during the height of Jim Crow segregation from 1900 to 1950. Chafe
draws on these valuable resources to build this definitive history
of African American activism, a history that can and should inform
Black Lives Matter and other contemporary social justice movements.
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