The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's PastModeled after those bedside books of prayer and contemplation that millions turn to for daily spiritual guidance and growth, the national bestseller The Intellectual Devotional—offering secular wisdom and cerebral nourishment—drew a year's worth of readings from seven different fields of knowledge. In The Intellectual Devotional: American History, authors David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim have turned to the rich legacy of American history for their selections. From Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to Martin Luther King Jr., from the Federalist Papers to Watergate, the giant figures, cultural touchstones, and pivotal events in our national heritage provide a bountiful source of reflection and education that will refresh knowledge, revitalize the mind, and open new horizons of intellectual discovery. |
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... Native Americans, were arduous. During their first winter in Virginia, many of the 108 colonists died from disease or Indian attack. A primitive wooden stockade built around the settle- ment did not halt the attacks. Smith himself was ...
... Native Americans, were arduous. During their first winter in Virginia, many of the 108 colonists died from disease or Indian attack. A primitive wooden stockade built around the settle- ment did not halt the attacks. Smith himself was ...
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... Native Americans and English settlers in the New World. The Pequot were one of the most powerful tribes in the region that is now Connecticut, but they were nearly annihilated in the war. In the wake of the conflict, Native Americans in ...
... Native Americans and English settlers in the New World. The Pequot were one of the most powerful tribes in the region that is now Connecticut, but they were nearly annihilated in the war. In the wake of the conflict, Native Americans in ...
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... Native Americans in the Caribbean smoking rolled-up tobacco leaves. Several of the crew members took the odd custom back to Europe with them, where it caught on immediately. Within a generation, smoking was the rage in the Old World ...
... Native Americans in the Caribbean smoking rolled-up tobacco leaves. Several of the crew members took the odd custom back to Europe with them, where it caught on immediately. Within a generation, smoking was the rage in the Old World ...
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... Native Americans, established a successful colony that quickly grew in popula- tion as a “great migration” of Puritans fled persecution in England for a fresh start in the New World. The Puritans, a splinter sect of the official Church ...
... Native Americans, established a successful colony that quickly grew in popula- tion as a “great migration” of Puritans fled persecution in England for a fresh start in the New World. The Puritans, a splinter sect of the official Church ...
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... America. Native American warriors led by Metacom, better known as King Philip, the chief of the Wampanoag tribe, scored a string of victories at the beginning of the war that seriously endangered the future of the New England colonies ...
... America. Native American warriors led by Metacom, better known as King Philip, the chief of the Wampanoag tribe, scored a string of victories at the beginning of the war that seriously endangered the future of the New England colonies ...
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The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete ... David S. Kidder,Noah D. Oppenheim No preview available - 2007 |
The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete ... David S. Kidder,Noah D. Oppenheim No preview available - 2007 |
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