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Publisher
Iwwg Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Perhaps you watched in horror with the rest of the world as Afghanistan was returned to the Taliban in August, 2021. No group was more greatly impacted by the return of Taliban rule than women, who had made great strides in the previous twenty years. Read their personal stories and essays and you'll find their heartfelt expressions of loss are a reminder that for many, their hearts are held captive by a country they can no longer safely call home....
2) Olive Morris
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As a child, little Olive moved to London from Jamaica. When she was older, she stood up against the wrongful arrest of a Nigerian diplomat, and from then on vowed to fight injustice of all kinds. Olive became dedicated to improving the lives of those in her community and beyond. This inspiring story of the activist's life features a facts and photos section at the back.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite...
4) LeBron James
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Beyond the Game is a new nonfiction chapter book series about athletes who have stepped up beyond sports to make a difference in the world, from acclaimed author, Andrew Maraniss and illustrator DeAndra Hodge. This is the story of LeBron James and his social justice work."-- Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The book Celebrating African American Female Pioneers by the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation is a collective record of African American female pioneers from a local area in Maryland. Commencing in 2021, the Foundation undertook an ongoing research effort to identify and lift up the many African American female pioneers in Annapolis and Anne County, Maryland. These pioneers represent the "first" to accomplish significant achievements in their various...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Tien Fu Wu, a young Chinese girl, is sold into slavery by her gambler father, she is rescued by the women of the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, where she befriends missionary Dolly Cameron.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Follow an aging king as he attempts to avoid invasion by the Catholic powers, and to balance the demands of Protestant reformers with his own desire for a traditional Church (under his command) that would retain many Catholic practices.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The huge growth of cities was a hallmark of the Gilded Age. Study the forces leading to massive urbanization, such as industrialization, migration and immigration, and revolutionary technologies. Then track the serious social problems that resulted, from crime and disease to political corruption, which spurred intense scrutiny from reformers..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the late Gilded Age there was wide agreement that troubling trends threatened the young republic. Explore rising public anxiety over the power of big business and the era’s economic inequality, governmental corruption, and violent conflict between labor and capital. Take account of how business leaders responded to critics and reformers..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Study how progressive reformers responded to the troubles of big cities through urban planning, new thinking about poverty, and the establishment of “settlement houses” and social work to aid the urban poor. Also learn about activism to address alcohol abuse and prostitution, as well as governmental actions to reform housing, urban sanitation, and public health..
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The second episode in this series explores how the Protestant Reformation continued to spread quickly across Europe. Protestantism continued to splinter as radical reformers championed their own ideas leading to their bloody persecution by Protestants and Catholics alike. At Trent, the Catholic Church conclusively responds to the Reformation.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
How did the Crimean War vindicate the reformers of Tanzimat? Why was the Treaty of Paris a strategic victory for "the Porte" - that came at a high price? What impact did the empire's catastrophic defeat during the Russo-Turkish War have on its future with the Concert of Europe?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the first of two lectures on the power of stereotypes and misrepresentation to justify religious violence, look at how church reformers in Europe and the United States of America produced a series of enduring, negative images and stereotypes of Catholics: as degenerate, orgiastic, drunken, and power-mad.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn about reformers' efforts to address the miserable living and working conditions of industrial workers, and new labor laws that followed the galvanizing events of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Bread and Roses Strike. Also study the movements to eradicate child labor and to federally regulate food and medicines.
16) Renaissance: The Transformation of the West: Episode 34,Catholic Reformations: Spiritual Revival
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the face of the slings and arrows of Protestant reformers, the Catholic Church lauded a number of individuals whose commitment to the "true faith" offered a balance to the Reformation that threatened to bury Catholicism. Learn how men and women became exemplars of piety during the Catholic Reformation.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Socialist policies are not limited to the realm of idealists and reformers. Germany under Otto von Bismarck shows how socialist policies like public education, unemployment benefits, and tax-funded healthcare can create more efficient workforces. See how Bismarck's ideas were used to help Germany achieve greater power and trace his legacy into the 20th century under Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
American cities were often badly planned and became overcrowded with ethnic and linguistic neighborhoods. Cities were severely polluted with smoke and ash; contaminated water supplies, poor sanitation, and large numbers of horses worsened public health conditions and shortened life expectancy. Reformers tried to Americanize urban immigrants and campaigned for city government reform.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Progressive reformers in the early 1900s tried to increase honesty and efficiency in business and government. Theodore Roosevelt, the first president to embrace the Progressive outlook, established the principle of presidential initiative in progressive legislative programs and created a template for his successors to increase federal government power over the states.
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Renegade. Reformer. Revolutionary. Five centuries after his birth, the influence of John Knox can still be felt across his native Scotland and throughout the world. Presented by Scottish actor Phillip Todd, “Knox” takes another look at the life and legacy of one of the church’s great reformers. Follow in the footsteps of John Knox as he makes his epic journey from Catholic priest to a passionate Protestant preacher facing down the most famous...
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