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Kenneth Bridges, ed.: Freedom in America.(Book review)
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Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
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March 22, 2008
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- Freund, Alexander
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Kenneth Bridges, ed. Freedom in America. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. Pp. 464. Paper, $46.67; ISBN 13:9780136147343.
Freedom in America is a collection of 95 documents from U.S. history that define and discuss the concept and practice of freedom. From the Charter of Virginia (1606) and the Mayflower Compact (1620) to speeches by Ronald Reagan (Tear Down This Wall, 1987) and Bill Clinton (Religious Liberty in America, 1995), students can explore through these primary sources how Americans' ideas about freedom, liberty, and justice have changed through the course of four centuries. After a one-page introduction, in which Kenneth Bridges stresses that ...
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The language of freedom in the American presidency, 1933-2006.
Presidential Studies Quarterly;
September 1, 2007 ;
Coe, Kevin;
787 words
...Freedom is the most familiar symbol in American political culture...quantitative and qualitative analysis to examine the language of freedom in more than seventy years worth of presidential speeches. The findings reveal a presidential narrative of freedom that has been remarkably constant over time. ...
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Freedom!
Social Theory and Practice;
July 1, 2005 ;
Keller, Simon;
787 words
...1. The Value of Freedom While campaigning for the Republican presidential...believe that the most important family value is freedom. When John McCain said that the most important family value is freedom, he was not talking about the metaphysical...
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The consequences of freedom without structure.
Education;
September 22, 1997 ;
Campbell, Lloyd P.;
787 words
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Freedom of Association
Poetry;
July 1, 2005 ;
Finch, Zack;
250 words
...I grew up on you, freedom. A bowl of shredded freedom in the morning, Roast freedom at the close of day. Freedom favorable to the production of health, Opium markets of freedom. Freedom to look past those translucent floaters. To smile at the homecoming...
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Our Freedom. (poem)
The Nation;
February 28, 1994 ;
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny;
167 words
...OUR FREEDOM by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Our freedom is a miscarried baby. Amidst this most shameful massacre she...tired but faithful staff of the peasant wisdom of Russia. Our freedom is freedom's enemy. Mistrusting herself, hating herself, she...
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The dimensions of freedom.(Opinion/Editorial)
Manila Bulletin;
August 28, 2001 ;
787 words
...RECEIVING this Chino Roces Freedom Award is truly a great honor which I and my family...press, he ignited the Filipinos' passion and love for freedom. Someone once wrote, The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. This is exactly what...
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Assessing threats to freedom
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
June 17, 2003 ;
MICHAEL KINSLEY;
787 words
...Assessing threats to freedom By MICHAEL KINSLEY Tuesday, June 17, 2003 We Americans are a freedom-loving people. Or so we like to think. Other peoples are freedom-loving too, we recognize. But, looking around the world, we suspect Europeans such...
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Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East.(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;
July 1, 2003 ;
Chavalas, Mark W.;
787 words
...Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East. By DANIEL C...time with his new study on flight and freedom in the ancient Near Eastern world, wherein...contribute to a contemporary discussion of freedom. Moreover, he rightly argues that this...
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NEW VOICES TELL US WHAT FREEDOM MEANS TO YOU
Evansville Courier & Press;
April 2, 2002 ;
787 words
...Freedom is probably one of the most substantial words in the English...people feel that they probably could not live without their freedom, but slaves in the 1800s had to live without theirs. Their...everyone to have the same privileges. The opposites of freedom, such as subjection, restraint and ...
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freedom
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;
IAIN McLEAN and ALISTAIR McMILLAN;
787 words
...freedom Absence of interference or impediment. Unfortunately, and...reflection of the importance which has been attached to ideas of freedom, almost every aspect of its characterization is controversial...Gerald MacCallum has suggested that all statements about freedom can be cast in the same form— A ...
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An Incipient Loss of Freedom
The Washington Post;
June 15, 2003 ;
Michael Kinsley;
787 words
...We Americans are a freedom-loving people. Or so we like to think. Other peoples are freedom-loving too, we recognize. But, looking around...America, though, we have a special knack for freedom. After all, we invented it. From the Declaration...
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The Insecurity of Freedom.(Book review)
Shofar;
September 22, 2007 ;
Elliott, Monika;
787 words
...The Insecurity of Freedom, by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Philadelphia...at the fact of our being free. (p. 18) Freedom appears in much of contemporary public...to say that in many of our societies freedom is left sounding like little more than...
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Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography;
April 1, 2005 ;
Doss, Erika;
787 words
...Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding...00 David Hackett Fischer's Liberty and Freedom is a sweeping, massive volume (851 pages...national narrative. Treating liberty and freedom as folkways, as American values grounded...
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What freedom means to me
The Topeka Capital-Journal;
September 25, 2002 ;
Capital-Journal;
787 words
...Freedom is an important commodity, even to grade school students. The following essays about what freedom means were written by fourth- graders at Pauline South Intermediate School. My freedom really means to me my life. I really appreciate my freedom. I like the way...
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Registration of 'Freedom!' red clover.(Registration Of Cultivars)
Crop Science;
November 1, 2003 ;
Taylor, N.L Collins, M.;
772 words
...'Freedom!' red clover (Trifoliumpratense L.) (Reg. no. CV-26, PI 629112...Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station and released in 2001. Freedom!, so named because of its freedom from pubescence (nonglandular trichomes or hairs), was developed...
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