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Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation ...

Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation ...

Thelma Wills Foote

Thelma Wills Foote details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to ...
Conversations with Shelby Foote

Conversations with Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote

I have another aunt. Katherine. her older sister, who's paralytic and in a nursing home in Greenville, and that's all. Jones: What about the govemor in the 1850s. Henry Stuart Foote, is he related? Foote: He's a distant cousin, not close kin.
The Best Devotions of Thelma Wells

The Best Devotions of Thelma Wells

Thelma Wells

Like Thelma herself, this book will reach out and hug you whenever you most need a heaping dose of comfort.Kick your shoes off, settle back, and unwind.
William Henry Foote Letter

William Henry Foote Letter

William Henry Foote

Letter from William Henry Foote, Romney, W. Va., to Brother Brown relating to Foote's views on African American education and on religious issues of the Presbyterians and Methodists.
The Wounded Will: Mending Our Wills and Bending Our Wills to ...

The Wounded Will: Mending Our Wills and Bending Our Wills to ...

Copper Louise Sloan

This book is an inspired work, with the intent of unraveling woundedness, that Ms. Sloan asserts we all have, and thereby mending our wills so we can bend our wills to God's will.
Horton Foote: A Literary Biography

Horton Foote: A Literary Biography

Charles S. Watson

Throughout, Watson's focus on Foote as a master playwright and his extensive use of the dramatist's unpublished correspondence make this literary biography required reading for all who admire the work of Horton Foote.
Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian

Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian

Robert L. Phillips Jr.

"Talk with Shelby Foote," New York Times Book Review 27 April 1952, p. 16. Reprinted in Conversations with Shelby Foote, edited by William C. Carter, pp. 5– 7. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. Carter, William C.
Ready to Win™ over Depression:

Ready to Win™ over Depression:

Thelma Wells

Every year depression strikes more than 35 million in the United States alone. Popular speaker and author Thelma Wells knows firsthand how difficult depression can be.
Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood

Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood

Horton Foote

Now for the first time, in Farewell, Foote turns to prose to tell his own story and the stories of the real people who have inspired his characters.
Henry Stuart Foote in California Politics, 1854-1857

Henry Stuart Foote in California Politics, 1854-1857

John Denton Carter

Foote was a former governor of Mississippi who moved to California to practice law.
The Horton Foote Review: The Journal of the Horton Foote Society

The Horton Foote Review: The Journal of the Horton Foote Society

Scot Lahaie

The Journal of the Horton Foote Society Scot Lahaie. Scot Lahaie (Editor) is Assistant Professor and Director of Theater at Gardner- Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Stage Directing and a ...
God, I'm Ready to Walk in Faith

God, I'm Ready to Walk in Faith

Thelma Wells

Popular speaker and author Thelma Wells points the way to a faith that surpasses women's expectations and dreams as she shares her journey through struggles and triumphs alongside dynamic, biblical teachings and godly guidance.
The Civil War Volume I: Fort Sumter to Perryville

The Civil War Volume I: Fort Sumter to Perryville

Shelby Foote

Fort Sumter to Perryville Shelby Foote. T H E C I V IL W A R A Warrative 1 Fort Sumter to Perryville SHELBY FOOTE $o P I M L I C () Prologue — The Opponents IT WAS A Monday in Washington, Title Page.
Ready to Win Over Worry and Anxiety

Ready to Win Over Worry and Anxiety

Thelma Wells

Dynamic author and speaker Thelma Wells (Don't Give In--God Wants You to Win!) shows people how to fight the discouraging, time-wasting problem of worry.
The Buzz: Seven Scriptures to Energize Your Life

The Buzz: Seven Scriptures to Energize Your Life

Thelma Wells

Using her signature bumblebee analogy (bees are scientifically not supposed to fly!), Thelma Wells buzzes through the Scriptures, capturing special meaning for women who are struggling to find hope and purpose in life.
Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote

Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote

Laurin Porter

In comparing the cycle with the works of William Faulkner and Eugene O'Neill, Porter positions Foote at the intersection of southern literature and American drama.
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home: No-Nonsense Advice that Will ...

Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home: No-Nonsense Advice that Will ...

Thelma Meyer

Now for the first time, Thelma's sage advice is being made available in this revolutionary cleaning guide chock full of practical tips and secrets based on the premise that life is hectic and messy -- and so keeping your house clean and ...
Wills, Trusts, and Estates

Wills, Trusts, and Estates

Jesse Dukeminier

In this timely new edition, distinguished authors Dukeminier and Johanson build on the success of their phenomenally popular casebook Wills, Trusts, and Estates with new coverage of non-traditional family arrangements, living wills, and ...
Tournament

Tournament

Shelby Foote

Tournament is a brilliant novel of the post-Civil War South, replete with Proustian and Faulknerian overtones. Many of the characters that appear in subsequent novels by Shelby Foote come onto the scene for the first time in this work.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

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C. Vann Woodward's review of the third volume noted that professional historians had essentially abdicated their role as ... Missouri William C. Carter, ed., Conversations with Shelby Foote (1989); C. Stuart Chapman, Shelby Foote: A Writer's ...
The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood ...

The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood ...

Lorien Foote

In this highly original contribution to Civil War and gender history, Lorien Foote reveals that these internal battles were fought against the backdrop of manhood.
Owen Foote Frontiersman Pa

Owen Foote Frontiersman Pa

Stephanie Greene

Second grader Owen Foote is looking forward to spending time with his friend Joseph in their tree fort, until some bullies visiting his neighbor, Mrs. Gold, threaten to wreck the fort.
So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the ...

So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the ...

Lorien Foote

Lorien Foote: I thank my co-editor, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, for approaching me with the idea for this volume and for making the process so pleasant and so easy. He is a fine historian and a good friend. I would like to thank the series editor, ...
Horton Foote: A Casebook

Horton Foote: A Casebook

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... with the town becoming a kind of extended family. As in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga, Foote's cycle extends beyond the story of the Robedauxs and Harrison, Texas, to the entire South, tapping finally 112 Laurin Porter LAURIN PORTER.
Vernon Early

Vernon Early

Horton Foote

THE STORY: VERNON EARLY revisits American life in Horton Foote's fictional town of Harrison, Texas, during the 1950s.
The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December ...

The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December ...

Shelby Foote

The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant's siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote's narrative of the great battles of the Civil War--culled from his massive three-volume history- ...
Thelma Makes A Visit

Thelma Makes A Visit

Diane Jackson

Diane Jackson. Thelma Makes A Visit Thelma Makes A Visit by Diane Jackson by Diane Jackson Illustrator : Andrea Freeman Illustrator : Andrea Freeman Thelma Makes A Visit by Diane Jackson Graphics by Andrea. Cover page.
The Wills family of Johnson Co., Tenn

The Wills family of Johnson Co., Tenn

Carl B. Neal

His son David S. Wills moved from Knox Co. Tenn. to Dade Co. Mo. between 1838 and 181*0. It is a family tradition that John's grandson, David Snodgrass Wills, born in l8It2 in Dade Co. remembered his grandfather, remembered that he was ...
Mary Hallock Foote: Author-illustrator of the American West

Mary Hallock Foote: Author-illustrator of the American West

Darlis A. Miller

In Mary Hallock Foote, Darlis A. Willer examines the life of this gifted and spirited woman from the East as she adapted herself and her artistic vision to the West.

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