Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty
Author: Alma White
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 184
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Feminist Pillar of Fire
Author: Susie C. Stanley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2006-03-01
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1597523828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeminist,Ó with its modern interpretation, might not be the word Alma White would have chosen, but there is no doubt that this strong and independent woman fought all the definitions of what a woman was supposed to be at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. When women were mostly consigned to the roles of wife and mother--and bitterly opposed as preachers--Alma White developed into a fierce and successful religious leader. A founder of the Pentecostal Union (later renamed the Pillar of Fire), she found biblical affirmation for her role as prophet and preacher. She was larger than life. A brilliant businesswoman, she was one of the first church leaders to embrace technology with the purchase of multiple radio stations. Alma White was one of those great, landmark American characters out of whom the richest of history is made.
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1631493701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection An urgent examination into the revived Klan of the 1920s becomes “required reading” for our time (New York Times Book Review). Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this “second Klan” spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the flood of immigrant “hordes” landing on American shores. “Part cautionary tale, part expose” (Washington Post), The Second Coming of the KKK “illuminates the surprising scope of the movement” (The New Yorker); the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass “Klonvocations” prior to its collapse in 1926—but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. A “must-read” (Salon) for anyone looking to understand the current moment, The Second Coming of the KKK offers “chilling comparisons to the present day” (New York Review of Books).
Everyday Klansfolk
Author: Craig Fox
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1609171357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1920s Middle America, the Ku Klux Klan gained popularity not by appealing to the fanatical fringes of society, but by attracting the interest of “average” citizens. During this period, the Klan recruited members through the same unexceptional channels as any other organization or club, becoming for many a respectable public presence, a vehicle for civic activism, or the source of varied social interaction. Its diverse membership included men and women of all ages, occupations, and socio-economic standings. Although surviving membership records of this clandestine organization have proved incredibly rare, Everyday Klansfolk uses newly available documents to reconstruct the life and social context of a single grassroots unit in Newaygo County, Michigan. A fascinating glimpse behind the mask of America’s most notorious secret order, this absorbing study sheds light on KKK activity and membership in Newaygo County, and in Michigan at large, during the brief and remarkable peak years of its mass popular appeal.
Weird N. J.
Author: Mark Moran
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2009-05
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781402766855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores haunted places, local legends, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in New Jersey.
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Party of Fear
Author: David H. Bennett
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1995-11-14
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 0679767215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy, for two hundred years, have some American citizens seen this country as an endangered Eden, to be purged of corrupting peoples or ideas by any means necessary? To the Know-Nothings of the 1850s, the enemy was Irish immigrants. To the Ku Klux Klan, it was Jews, blacks, and socialists. To groups like the Michigan Militia, the enemy is the government itself -- and some of them are willing to take arms against it. The Party of Fear -- which has now been updated to examine the right-wing resurgence of the 1990s -- is the first book to reveal the common values and anxieties that lie beneath the seeming diversity of the far right. From the anti-Catholic riots that convulsed Philadelphia in 1845 to the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, it casts a brilliant, cautionary light not only on our political fringes but on the ways in which ordinary Americans define themselves and demonize outsiders.
Threat to Democracy
Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-10-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1445674777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy legitimising bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands re-examination today with a more strident, populist and nationalist America.
From Jeremiad to Jihad
Author: John D. Carlson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-06-06
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0520271653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"From Jeremiad to Jihad is an ambitious volume. The selections here introduce new perspectives on the intersection of religious institutions and American culture. Whereas the subject of just war has largely been the provenance of religious and philosophical studies, with some input from international relations and political science, the authors of this volume have brought methods and questions from the study of history to bear on the discussion. Carlson and Ebel have pulled together a significant work that fosters new conversations between scholars interested in just war and American religious history." - John Kelsay, author of Arguing the Just War in Islam “Why is America, one of the world’s most religious societies, also one of the most violent? In a sophisticated, thoughtful and accessible manner, the essays in this collection provide an important examination of the complexities of American character that sees the sacred as sanctioning violence and allows violence to be sanctified.” - Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence “This is a stunning collection of essays—the single most comprehensive and wide-ranging set yet prepared. With “jeremiad” and “jihad” as their guiding tropes, the contributors brilliantly trace the life of this rhetorical strain. This volume is ideally suited for courses in religion and history as well as anyone interested in the role of religious violence in American culture and life.” - Harry S. Stout, author of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
The Confusion of Tongues
Author: Charles W. Ferguson
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn objective perspective of the issue of bilingual education in California. By 1990 half of the students starting school in California will come from non-English speaking homes. Addresses the question: should they be taught only English in school or should some of their lessons be taught in their native tongue? Takes place in Oakland and Berkeley schools.
