Source: Excerpts from “Catholic Novelists and Their Readers” and “The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South” from MYSTERY AND MANNERS by Flannery O’Connor, edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald. Copyright
Source: Amina Wadud, “Citizenship and Faith,” in Woman and Citizenship, Marilyn Friedman, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). This chapter proposes an important corollary between the idea of citizenship,
Source: Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt, ed., Stephen Brennan (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011), 304–10; William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (New York: Columbia University
Monday, May 28 . . . Mr. Wythe[1] from the Committee for preparing rules, made a report, which employed the deliberations of this day. Mr. King[2] objected to one of
Source: Ansel Adams, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans (NY: U.S. Camera, 1944), pp. 58-59; 63-67; 101. https://goo.gl/TNseGm. In any group of society the children are of
This excerpt is drawn from the postwar memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), who served as a young officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War.
Webster defends Hartford Convention as patriotic, constitutional response to crisis.
. . . It is true, it may be pled that popular meetings are often conducted with indiscretion, and have a tendency to promote licentiousness. This is admitted; but it
Mittelberger condemns Pennsylvania’s religious liberty, claiming unchecked toleration produced irreligion, disorder, and weakened clerical authority.
Franklin describes George Whitefield’s revival preaching, illustrating the First Great Awakening’s emotional power and challenge to traditional religious authority.
