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  • Black Southerners

    1619-1869

    by John B. Boles ...
    This revealing interpretation of the black experience in the South emphasizes the evolution of slavery over time and the emergence of a rich, hybrid African American culture. From the incisive discussion on the origins of slavery in the Chesapeake colonie ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unto a Good Land

    A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1900

    Introducing a New U.S. History Text That Takes Religion SeriouslyUnto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the American people -- from the first contacts between Europeans and North America's native inhabitants, through the creation of a modern nation, to the 2004 presidential election. Written by a team of highly regarded historians, this textbook shows how grasping the ... Read more

    $51.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unto a Good Land

    A History of the American People, Volume 2: From 1865

    Introducing a New U.S. History Text That Takes Religion SeriouslyUnto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the American people -- from the first contacts between Europeans and North America's native inhabitants, through the creation of a modern nation, to the 2004 presidential election. Written by a team of highly regarded historians, this textbook shows how grasping the ... Read more

    $51.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion in Antebellum Kentucky

    by John B. Boles ...
    A look at the Christian religions in the Bluegrass State before the Civil War from the author of the acclaimed Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty.Religion permeated the day-to-day life of antebellum Kentucky. This engaging account of Kentucky's various Christian denominations, first published as part of the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, traces the history of the Great Revival of 1800–1805 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jefferson

    Architect of American Liberty

    by John B. Boles ...
    From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Seven Virginians

    The Men Who Shaped Our Republic

    by John B. Boles ...
    Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America’s leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall.Most accounts of the founding generation focus only on the activities of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Great Revival

    Beginnings of the Bible Belt

    by John B. Boles ...
    Series series Religion in the South
    Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Religion In Antebellum Kentucky

    by John B. Boles ...
    Religion permeated the day-to-day life of antebellum Kentucky. This engaging account of Kentucky's various Christian denominations, first published as part of the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, traces the history of the Great Revival of 1800–1805, the subsequent schism in Protestant ranks, the rise of Catholicism, the development of a distinctive black Christianity, and the growth of a Christian ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord

    Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870

    by John B. Boles ...
    Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion and were baptized together, were subject to the same church discipline, and were buried in the same cemeteries. What was ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • University Builder

    Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute

    by John B. Boles ...
    Rice University, one of America's preeminent institutions of higher education, grew out of the vision, direction, and leadership of one man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871--1957). University Builder is the fascinating story of this extraordinary educator and the unique school he created. Widely acknowledged, almost from its founding in 1912, as one of America's best universities, Rice is distinguished ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rice University

    One Hundred Years in Pictures

    “From its founding, Rice University has been an institution devoted to making a strong impact on the world,” according to current president David Leebron. Nestled near Houston’s cultural heart, Rice University is characterized by seriousness of purpose as well as by such quirky traditions as the MOB (Marching Owl Band). In Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, more than 300 photographs ... Read more

    $8.69 USD