Books by "Thomas Cary Johnson"
12 books found
Robert Lewis Dabney, 1820-1898, a minister in Virginia.
During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and civic virtue. As was the case with dissenters from early American established churches, some citizens and religious minorities have dissented from the public school system, what historian Sidney Mead calls the country's «established church.» They have objected to the «orthodoxy» of the public school, compulsory taxation, and attempts to abolish their schools or bring them into conformity with the state school paradigm. The Dissenting Tradition in American Education recounts episodes of Catholic and Protestant nonconformity since the inception of public education, including the creation of Catholic and Protestant schools, homeschooling, conflicts regarding regulation of nonconforming schools, and controversy about the propositions of knowledge and dispositions of belief and value sanctioned by the state school. Such dissent suggests that Americans consider disestablishing the public school and ponder means of education more suited to their confessional pluralism and commitments to freedom of conscience, parental liberty, and educational justice.
Documents the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada in the 19th century, in projects launched by launched by emigrants, former gold miners, state government officials, the War Department, the Interior Department, local politicians, town businessmen, stagecoach operators, and other entrepreneurs eager to establish land routes between California and the rest of the country.
“Through Their Eyes…” – Biographical Research in the Digital Age
by Björn Siegel, Andrea Sinn, Jay Howard Geller, Margarete Myers Feinstein, Nils Roemer, Sylwia Papier, Tabea Henn, Gerald Lamprecht, Marco Jandl, Andreas Heusler, Maximilian Strnad, Renate Evers, Seth Bernstein, Richard I. Cohen, Elena Hoffenberg, Morgan Morales, Avner Ofrath, Thomas Varkonyi, Anastasiia Strakhova
2025 · Universitätsverlag Potsdam
[PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany ; 30] Biographical studies have always been central to the field of history, but the relevance of biographical research seems to have increased in recent years, calling for a deeper analytical study and a critical re-evaluation of the newly developing “biographical turn.” Especially in an increasingly digitized world, including in academia, life stories seem to offer new perspectives through which personal narratives, cultural phenomena, or literary works can be examined, understood, and presented. Furthermore, these sources raise new questions about the interests and perspectives of the author(s), the reliability and subjectivity of the individual, as well as the constructiveness and authenticity of associated texts and sources. While these questions might be universal, they are inherent in Jewish history and culture. The worldwide spread of digitization offers answers to some of these questions, but also leads to new demands and difficulties in the study of biographies. Therefore, in the digital age, biographical research is a complex but promising method for expanding knowledge about phenomena such as Jewish (forced) migration, the Holocaust, the development of diasporas, exiles, and transnational networks, but also questions of acculturation, representation, remembrance, and the formation of memory.
It seems most peculiar; yes, rather strange That a bird, on a bitter branch might remain And more joyfully in winter months, long, Sing an elaborate, even a beautiful song. But such a bird is this one who can write, Who can attest that even though dark as night, His maker has given him a songbook of praise, To endure as a joyful sound, all days that remain. What you are holding is a songbook. It is a different kind of songbook, for it was birthed in the darkest of night and the coldest of winter. And while it is readily in itself an instrument of praise, it also provides a foundation for other song-makers, or, shall we say, those who receive songs from God Most High. For who can sing unless God himself provides song? This is a book for sufferers. It is for those who are enduring affliction or those who just have air filling their lungs from time to time (recognizing that all will invariably suffer). This is a book for those with questions. It is for those who wonder what God (if there is one) is doing as they sit on a branch that scrapes them endlessly with rough and bitter bark. The branch is aflame, crumbling underneath, and ready to give way. How can we find song in such a tormenting and uncertain darkness? How can we be as the rare bird who actually finds reason for song in winter?
A History of the Methodist Church, South
by Gross Alexander, James Brown Scouller, Robert Verrell Foster, Thomas Cary Johnson
1894