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HandiLand
HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. These books take what others regard as weaknesses—for instance, Harry Potter’s headaches or Hazel Lancaster’s oxygen tank—and redefine them as part of the hero’s journey. HandiLand places this movement from sidekick to hero in the political contexts of disability rights movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ghana. Elizabeth A. Wheeler invokes the fantasy of HandiLand, an ideal society ready for young people with disabilities before they get there, as a yardstick to measure how far...
Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers
Time was when so-called Christian civilization seemed able to send its vices abroad and keep its virtues at home. When men went by long sea voyages to the far East in sailing vessels, in the interests of conquest or commerce, and fell victims to their environments and weak wills, far removed from the restraints of religious influences, and from the possibility of exposure and disgrace in wrongdoing, they lived with the prospect before them, not always unfulfilled, of returning to home and to virtue to die. That day has passed forever. With the invention of steam as a locomotive power of great velocity, with the introduction of the cable, and later, the wireless telegraphy; with the mastery o...
Hip Hop
Examines the development in New York City of a Black culture centered around break dancing, graffiti art, and rap songs
Uncontained
In the post-war era, American urban fiction was dominated by the imagery of containment. This book offers a critique of this familiar story, evident in the noir narratives of James M. Cain and in work by Ellison, Roth, Salinger, Percy, Capote and others.
Malta of the Knights
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Wheeler's Journey
Wheeler’s Journey By: Mary Leah Wheeler’s Journey begins in Missouri. A group travel west, settling the land by living on it for five years. Follow along their journey and witness the encounters that face them along the way.
COLONIAL CHESAPEAKE FAMILIES British Origins and Descendants
"Alexander, Bland, Beall, Berry, Blake, Bocock, Bond, Bonderant, Boone, Bowie, Bradford, Brooke, Broome, Boyd, Butler, Cabell-Horsley, Cadwalader, Carroll, Cavanagh, Chapman-Pearson, Clagett, Claiborne, Cole, Compton, Cullen, Denwood-Covington, Dering, Dorsey, Dunscomb, DuVal, Eltonhead, Elzey, Eversfield, Ewell, Fauntleroy, Fielder, Gantt, Gittings, Glover, Graves, Greenfield, Hall, Hay, Heighe, Hilleary, Holdsworth, Keene, King, Lee-Fearn, Lewis, Mackall, Moore-Weems, Nelson, Parker, Parrott, Perkins, Reynolds, Roberts, Semmes, Skinner, Smith (Highlands), Sprigg, Stoddert, Stoughton-Stoss, Tasker, Tryon, Waring, Weems, Wheeler, Wight (White), Williams, Winder, Wortham Worthington, Wood, Wright, Young-Smith (Halls-Creek), with 57 ancestral British pedigrees."
