Sentences with phrase «history of the civil war»

In his book The Lost Science of Money, Stephen Zarlenga has traced the following monetary history of the civil war greenbacks (through the Campbell paragraph below).

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark A. Noll University of North Carolina Press, 216 pages, $ 29.95 Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout Viking, 576 pages, $ 29.95 Nothing in American history» not the Revolution, not the Second World....

If you screw up a test on the history of the Civil War, it doesn't prevent you from doing better on a test about World War 2.

After a long history of civil war and corruption, many Liberians didn't trust their government's attempts to control Ebola.

He scoured the Internet for information on the Western African republic with a recent history of civil war so that he accurately reflected the country's interests and international positions.

One walk, for example, began with a teach - in during which Yemeni students shared information about their home country, including its location, cultural traditions, and history of civil war.

As an additional project, students can study the history of the civil war that wrenched the country apart (1980 — 90) and drove many citizens to flee to other countries — as Argueta did when he settled in San Francisco.

Kara Walker, Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun - Boats, from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005, offset lithograph and silkscreen, published by LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, New York.

Kara Walker Exhibit Installation view from the Kara Walker exhibition «Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).»

Student Brittany Carlson discuss Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

This series of 15 prints features Walker's signature black silhouettes layered over illustrations first published in Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

In this unique performance, Thomas F. DeFrantz and SLIPPAGE explore the provocation of Kara Walker's Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) with shadowplay, dance and image subtraction technology.

The Nasher Museum presented Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), in the Incubator Gallery as part of The Collection Galleries.

The exhibition includes three narrative series — The Emancipation Approximation (1999 — 2000), Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated (2005), and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters (2010)-- along with numerous individual works that underline Walker's use of Antebellum and Reconstruction - era imagery and themes.

Works from Cindy Sherman's «Untitled Film Stills» (1977 — 80) are so out of place as to be simultaneously distracting and forgettable, and selections from Kara Walker's Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)(2015) feel entirely extra.

Highlights include Kerry James Marshall's Dailies from Rythm Mastr (2010), Kara Walker's Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun - Boats from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)(2005), and Renee Cox's Chillin with Liberty (1998).

Detail of «Exodus of Confederates From Atlanta» from «Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated),» 2005 (15 offset lithographs and screen prints on Somerset textured paper) by Kara Walker.

Kara Walker, Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun - Boats, from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Thomas F. DeFrantz, professor and chair of Duke's African and African American Studies Department, and SLIPPAGE presented an exhilarating performance of a dance duet in response to Kara Walker's Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) prints.

Durham artist shirlette ammons, drawing from her perspective as a North Carolina native, African American and queer artist, performs in the Incubator Gallery featuring Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated): Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough, 2005

The exhibition Emancipating the Past presents three narrative portfolio series, executed in print — The Emancipation Approximation (1999 — 2000), Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated (2005), and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters (2010)-- accompanied by single works that underline Walker's employment of Antebellum and Reconstruction - era imagery and themes.

The exhibition presents three narrative portfolio series, executed in print — The Emancipation Approximation, Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters.

The exhibition presents three of KARA WALKER's narrative portfolio series, «The Emancipation Approximation» (1999 — 2000), «Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated» (2005), and «An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters» (2010).

EXHIBITION: «Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)» @ Smithsonian American Art Museum Opened Oct. 13 The exhibition presents a series of 15 prints by Kara Walker inspired by the two - volume Harper's anthology published in 1866.

The exhibition Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery & Power presents three narrative portfolio series, executed in print — The Emancipation Approximation (1999 — 2000), Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated (2005), and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters (2010)-- accompanied by single works that underline Walker's employment of Antebellum and Reconstruction - era imagery and themes.

Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) includes 15 lithographs and screenprints from the artist's 2005 series of the same name.

From the portfolio Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).

The haunting works seem to conflate two separate killings of unarmed black males and the history of the Civil War to make a point about how violence seems to find black males, no matter the circumstance.

Not exact matches

While use of these RFRA laws has been part and parcel of the judicial landscape since the 1990s, the controversy over them is part of a long history of discrimination in the U.S. And the attempts to end that discrimination stretch all the way back to the Civil War.

In his Natural History of Religion (1757), the Scottish philosopher David Hume — in agreement with other skeptical and agnostic English and French thinkers — said that Christianity's claim to absolute truth was to be blamed for the devastating civil wars that had taken place in Britain and France.

If God is one, then every war in human history is a civil war, for it is a war inside the family of God's people.

Each of the American histories I reviewed gave more space to the Watergate scandal than to all post — Civil War religion.

Take off the dumb reality trash and all the tons of metaphysical garbage and show me some «History of (Random country) or Civil War or something REAL.

Against the law student's disaffection, the Civil War experience shows that careful legal interpretation can be an engine of history in its own right — a real motive and limit, not just an instrument of judges» will to power.

In the second part — on our history's major constitutional disputes — the book reaches its dramatic climax: an expertly told story of the constitutional transformations wrought by the Civil War.

But what about the historical fact that you guys slaughtered each other during the American Civil War which was one of the most cruel wars of all history.

What would the course of American history and the quality of our national life have been like over the past 110 years or so if the U.S. had not fought the Civil War?

In American history, this method was used by many of the colonies, by the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War, and by Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War.

Reviewed by George McKenna In the preface to While God Is Marching On, Steven E. Woodworth, an associate professor of history at Texas Christian University, recalls that Ken and Ric Burns» 1990 documentary on the Civil War quoted freely from the letters of Civil War soldiers without revealing....

Griffiths shows his ignorance of Afghan history when he accepts a return to the civil war of the 1990s if it means a stop to the war of the last decade.

As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.

But you can't because Christian history is full of murder, torture, conquests, bloody civil wars, terrorism, the promotion of hate, etc., for centuries and centuries.

Card's future history of the Second American Civil War will stay safely on the fiction shelves where it belongs.

It is his future history of the Second American Civil War.

We fail in our responsibility to history when we do not permit ourselves to see Civil War memorials from a Romantic point of view, and when we fail to recognize the phrase «lost cause» as a shorthand for a morally complex, tragic understanding of the South's defeat.

Liberal Christians have a long history of political action, most recently in connection with civil rights and the war in Vietnam.

Because of the sectarian nature of Lebanese politics, modern Lebanese history is rife with coups, invasions, civil wars and government shutdowns.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?