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The experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp - the fear, smell, pain, and camaraderie. Boys were turned into men, men were transformed into soldiers, and then from soldiers to warriors. These warriors had wives who shared in their transformations. Some marriages were strengthened, while for others men and their families were left emotionally and spiritually battered. Focusing in on a singular company’s experience of war and its eventual homecoming, Andrew Wiest discusses the shared experience of combat and both the darkness and resiliency of war’s aftermath.

Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous people alluring, often recalling his grandmother's consistent mention of their Chippewa heritage. When La Tray attended his grandfather's funeral as a young man, he finally found himself surrounded by relatives who obviously were Indigenous. "Who were they?" he wondered, and "Why was I never allowed to know them?"

In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln's assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers, released from Confederate prisoner-of-war camps, were to be transported home on the steamboat Sultana. With a profit to be made, the captain rushed repairs to the ship so the soldiers wouldn't find transportation elsewhere. More than 2,000 passengers boarded in Vicksburg, Mississippi...on a boat with a capacity of 376.

In The Haunt of Home, Zachary Michael Jack considers the many ways a region’s abiding spirit shapes the ethos of a land and its people, offering portraits of others who, like himself, are determined to live out the unique promise and predicament of the Gothic.

Why do we dance together? What does dancing tells us about ourselves, individually and collectively? And what can it do for us? Whether it be at home, '80s club nights, Irish dancehalls or reggae dances, jungle raves or volunteer-run spaces and youth centres, Emma Warren has sought the answers to these questions her entire life. At the intersection of memoir, social and cultural history, Dance Your Way Home is an intimate foray onto the dancefloor - wherever and whenever it may be - that speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move.

Join author Elbert Hubbard as he takes us on a fascinating journey to the homes of influential authors, poets, social activists, and other notable figures. Explore how their environments might have shaped their perspectives and the works they produced. This collection of insightful essays is part biography, part reflection on Hubbards interpretations of their life and work. In this particular volume, we delve into the lives of renowned scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Darwin, and many others. This is the twelfth installment in a captivating ...

In this intriguing volume, Elbert Hubbard takes us on an intimate tour through the homes of remarkable women who left their mark on history. Exploring the residences of authors, poets, social reformers, and other esteemed figures, Hubbard delves into how their environments could have shaped their lives and work. This book is a unique blend of biography and insightful commentary on the subjects life and creative output. Featured women include Elizabeth B. Browning, Madame Guyon, Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Rosa Bonheur, Madame De Stael, Elizabeth Fry, Mary Lamb, ...

In Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, Elbert Hubbard guides us through the residences of prominent authors, poets, and social reformers, offering a unique perspective on how their environments might have shaped their work. These engaging essays blend biography with Hubbards insightful commentary on the subject and their body of work. The fifth volume in a series of 14, it delves into the lives of well-known English authors including William Morris, Alfred Tennyson, John Milton, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Benjamin Disraeli.

Elbert Hubbard takes you on a fascinating journey to the homes of iconic American statesmen and explores how their environments might have shaped their ideologies and actions. This insightful series blends biography and opinion, providing a unique perspective on figures like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, and more. Discover the lives and legacies of these influential individuals through Hubbards contemplative essays. This is the third volume in a riveting 14-book series.

Journey with Elbert Hubbard as he unveils the homes of some of the greatest businessmen in England and the US. This series is a unique fusion of biography and insightful commentary on how their living spaces might have shaped them and their work. Featured figures include Robert Owen, James Oliver, Stephen Girard, Mayer A. Rothschild, Philip D. Armour, John J. Astor, Peter Cooper, Andrew Carnegie, George Peabody, A. T. Stewart, H. H. Rogers, and James J. Hill. This is the 11th volume in a captivating 14-part series, carefully narrated by Lucy Perry and Availle.

Join Elbert Hubbard as he takes us on intimate tours of the homes of renowned authors, poets, social reformers, and other luminaries. Uncover how their environments might have shaped their thoughts and actions. Each short essay serves as a unique blend of biography, reflection, and Hubbards personal insights into the subjects and their body of work. In this series, we delve into the lives of historys most influential teachers, including Moses, Confucius, Pythagoras, Plato, King Alfred, Erasmus, Booker T. Washington, Thomas Arnold, Friedrich Froebel, Hypatia, Saint Benedict, and Mary Baker Eddy...

Join Elbert Hubbard as he takes you on a journey, exploring the homes of esteemed individuals from all walks of life - authors, poets, social reformers, and more. These fascinating short essays, part biography and part contemplation, present a unique perspective on how their environment might have shaped them. In this volume, he offers captivating insights into the renowned love stories of notable couples like William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Dante and Beatrice, and Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. Listen to the heartfelt play about the tragic love tale between Ferdinand Lassalle and ...

Join Elbert Hubbard as he journeys to the homes of some of the most influential figures in history, from authors and philosophers to politicians and poets. This podcast combines elements of biography, interview, and commentary as Hubbard converses with living subjects about their work and muses about the possible influences of the homes of those who have passed. In this first installment of a 14-volume series, Hubbard reflects upon his own life and those of influential figures like George Eliot, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Edison, among others.

Former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley, former Pentecostal pastor Kenny Burchard, and former Wesleyan Matt Swaim all came from very different theological backgrounds, but they all ended up finding a home in the Catholic Church. Each week, they take a look at a major issue or question they faced along the way, and share the series of events and discoveries that led them to embrace the Catholic faith.

“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An...

On June 17, 2015, 12 members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the nation. In Grace Will Lead Us Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jennifer Berry Hawes provides a definitive account of the tragedy’s aftermath.

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