Hichem Karoui

by David Goldfield

American Studies Journal Number 53 (Summer 2009)

Evangelical religion and evangelical democracy reinforced each other in nineteenth-century America. The spread of evangelical Christianity and democracy across a continent justified the wars against Native Americans and Mexico, and provided the moral framework for the fight against slavery which many Americans came to see as incompatible [...]

By Milton Gustafson

On December 13, 1952, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were transferred to the National Archives. Joining the Bill of Rights, which had been in the Archives’ care since 1938, they became collectively known as the Charters of Freedom, the most precious documents in our heritage. Two days later, at 10:15 [...]

Matthew Lloyd Adams

Abstract Poland, recreated after the armistice of 1918, was confronted at its rebirth with four very severe challenges: welding together the separate sections of the dissected country, which for many decades had been under the rule of Prussia-Germany, Austria and Russia; creating a functioning administration and military force for the country; ensuring the [...]

Suraiya N. Faroqhi

Volume 3 traces the history of the later Ottoman Empire from the death of Mehmed III in 1603 to the proclamation of the Tanzimat, the administrative reconstruction of the Ottoman state, in 1839. Thiswas a period of alternating stability and instabilitywhen trade between the empire and Europe flourished and, wartime apart, merchants [...]

History

*     Milestones in Recent Czech History (1938-1989)

*     Coming to Terms With the 20th Century Totalitarian Past

Introduction

*     Inception and International Cooperation of the Institute and Archive

*     Highlights of Institute Activities

*     Formation and Priorities of the Security Services Archive

The international conference European Conscience and Communism, held on June 2-3, 2008, was organized by the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions of the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic; its organizers were Martin Mejstřík, Senator, and Jana Hybášková, Member of the European Parliament.

During the course of the conference, Institute for the [...]

The Origins of the British Secularist Movement 1791-1866

Edward Royle

Victorian Britain was a Christian country. That is, its laws and institutions, supported by the courts and public opinion, aided by a variety of Churches and sects, upheld and declared the Christian religion. The whole tone of Victorian middle-class life was religious, and the Churches enjoyed [...]

A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age

John Herman Randall, Jr

WHAT the following pages attempt was stated in the Foreword to the first edition: “This book aims, by entering sympathetically into the spirit of the past, to make the thought of the present more intelligible. Covering so vast a field, it can of [...]

A Paraphrase
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Introduction
People in the West generally hold that the whole duty of man is to promote the happiness if the majority of mankind, and happiness is supposed to mean only physical happiness and economic prosperity. If the laws of morality city are broken in the conquest of this happiness, it does [...]

BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. I shall recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I [...]

HOW GOVERNMENT IN THE ANCIENT WORLD TRIED TO DEAL WITH MODERN PROBLEMS
B Y H. J. HASKELL

To prevent any misconception let me say at the outset that this book is neither a criticism nor a defence of the New Deal. It is an attempt to provide an objective survey of instances of government intervention in [...]