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Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12 1862
Count Adam Gurowski (born in the Kalisz, Poland, 10 September 1805; died in Washington, D.C., 4 May 1866) was a Polish-born author who emigrated to the United States in 1849. In 1835, he published a work entitled La vérité sur la Russie, in which he advocated a union of the different branches of the Slavic race. In 1849, he went to the United States, where he engaged in literary pursuits and became deeply interested in American politics. He wrote articles for the American Cyclopaedia and worked on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Theology in America
Covering nearly 300 years of American religious writing, this anthology compiles selections from thirteen notable thinkers--including Thomas Hooker, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Hodge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Josiah Royce, William James and H. Richard Niebuhr--to reveal the vital and creative history of Protestant theology in America. In his substantial Introduction, Sydney Ahlstrom relates the history of American theology in broad and accessible terms, tackling his subject with characteristic clarity, passion, and intellectual rectitude.
No Establishment of Religion
The First Amendment guarantee that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths. The exact meaning and application of this American innovation, however, has always proved elusive. Individual states found it difficult to remove traditional laws that controlled religious doctrine, liturgy, and church life, and that discriminated against unpopular religions. They found it even harder to decide more subtle legal questions that continue to divide Americans today: Did the constitution prohibit governmental support for religion altogether, or just...
America and Europe
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