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The United States was founded by men and women of virtue, integrity, and a healthy respect for the Divine Creator who granted all humans the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But is the Great Experiment in Self-Governance still worth preserving? We're going to travel through history from the discovery of the New World to the present time, exploring leaders in thought, ideology, religion, culture, and government, to figure out what America is really all about.

Discover the profound need, purpose, and pivotal events that led to the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the divine mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Join Wayne Cooke as he explores this transformative journey.

This book is about an idea - namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine - which in turn morphed into a political movement, rallied around a popular slogan ("A country without a nation for a nation without a country"), and eventually contributed to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Christian Zionism continues to influence global politics, especially US foreign policy, and has deeply affected Jewish-Christian and Muslim-Christian relations.

Take everything you thought you knew about women in history and throw it out the window. Laine and Leigh are about to take you on a wild ride that will shed some light on a few of those bad ass babes you thought you knew. With a sprinkle of banter a splash of sass, buckle up, we’re about to blow your mind

C. S. Lewis is best known for his Narnia tales and Christian apologetics, works that have sold more than 100 million copies. But Lewis was also a trained philosopher and a professor at Cambridge and Oxford. An intellectual giant, he fiercely and extensively critiqued the fashionable dogma known as scientism - the idea that science is the only path to knowledge, and matter the fundamental reality.

An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author). During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an...

The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England. Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Returning to England after a...

This audiobook is read by the author, Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland. 'The Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman . . . this is an engaging book' Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph When Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daughter of a Welsh farmer, imagined her future, she imagined following in her...

The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England. Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Returning to England after a...

While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse.

Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. The Gambling Century focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it.

The Electoral College that governs America has been with us since 1804, when Thomas Jefferson's supporters redesigned it for his re-election. The Jeffersonians were motivated by the principle of majority rule. Gone were the days when a president would be elected by acclamation, as George Washington had been. Instead, given the emergence of intense two-party competition, the Jeffersonians wanted to make sure that the Electoral College awarded the presidency to the candidate of the majority, rather than minority, party.

In this harrowing narrative first published in 1682, the author tells the story of her capture and being held for ransom after an attack by Native Americans during an attack on Lancaster in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is the harrowing first-person account of one mother's struggle to survive after she and her children are attacked in their home and captured by Native Americans during the winter of 1675.

In many ways, the captivity narrative is a genre introducing us to a conflict between cultures and beliefs as well as our most infamous yet popular manner of communication: violence. Mary Rowlandson was one of the colonials taken captive by the Native Americans during the attack on Lancaster. After her release, she created this now archetypical account of her ordeal constructed around biblical typology.

The Restoration Obscura Field Guide is a podcast where photography and history converge to uncover the stories time tried to erase. Through restored images, archival research, and immersive storytelling, it explores the hidden corners of the past, from the backroads of Upstate New York to forgotten places across the nation and around the world. Each episode uses photography and historical restoration as a lens to preserve the past, rediscover lost narratives, and bring overlooked history back into focus. These are the stories that deserve to be remembered, told with care, curiosity, and an eye...

Dive into the intriguing period between 1648 and 1679 with British historian Osmund Airy. We explore a time when Cardinal Mazarin, fresh off concluding the pivotal Peace of Westphalia for France, had to face the noble rebellions known as the Fronde. By the time Mazarin drew his last breath in 1661, he had paved the way for Louis XIV to become an absolute monarch, eager to expand his realm through conquest. However, opposition arose from the young Stadtholder, William III of Orange in Holland, and the reinstated Charles II in England, who was dealing with Parliament, placating religious ...

Experience the harrowing tale of Mary Rowlandson, a ministers wife captured by Native Americans during King Philips War in 1675. Her vivid, often chilling narrative offers a unique perspective on her captivity, filled with moments of dark humor amidst the fear and uncertainty. As she recounts the brutal destruction of her Lancaster town and the tragic fate of its residents, Rowlandson portrays her captors through a lens of conflict and misunderstanding. This groundbreaking work was one of the first captivity narratives published by a woman, influencing countless modern stories, including the ...

My podcast will be focused on the concept of neorealist and applying this knowledge to domestic and international issues.