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Interview with the Witch
Transcription: [0:00] Located relatively close to downtown Bakersfield, California, at 30 H Street, is a local business inside of an old converted 1920s 3 bedroom, 1 bath house. This, however, isn’t just any…
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“Nationality”
“NATIONALITY” — Address by E.R. Snow, Feb 27, 1855, before an assembly of the “Polysophical Institution,” in L. Snow’s Hall. Printed in the Deseret News, June 25, 1856. Most courteously, this evening I’ll…
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American Reconstruction: Supplemental Reading List
Michael W. Fitzgerald. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860 – 1890 (2002) David W. Blight, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (2002)
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Why Nations Go To War
Stoessinger, John George. Why Nations Go To War. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2011. My first semester at BYU I decided to study political science. It seemed to fit at the time. It didn’t. After the…
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Lincoln and the Civil War: Supplemental Reading List
Steven Hahn, A Nation Without Borders: The United States in the Age of Civil Wars, 1830- 1910 (2016) (This work fits in most of weeks’ course readings.) James McPherson, The War That Forged…
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The British Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
John Locke (1632-1704) From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. Locke’s monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is…
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Islam’s Influence on the Western World
I have been asked on several occasions to put together a list of resources on Islam’s influence on the Western world from articles and books that I have read. These are links to…
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Master’s Reading List: HIST 5610: Readings From the Greek and Roman Worlds
Everitt, Anthony. The Rise of Athens: The story of the World’s Greatest Civilization. New York: Random House, 2016. Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates…
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Master’s Reading List: HIST 5120: Readings in US History since 1860
Foner, Eric. A Short History of Reconstruction: 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated abridged edition of the prize-winning…
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Would You have Followed?
In my previous ward I was called to teach the Valiant Boys in Primary (9-12 year olds). During my short time teaching them (almost a year), we studied and discussed topics in the…
