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C. F. W. Walther was born a pastor's son in Langenchursdorf in the Kingdom of Saxony (part of modern-day Germany). Out of a strong religious commitment, he immigrated to the United States in 1838, initially as a follower of Martin Stephan.
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America is a 1964 work of literary criticism written by Leo Marx and published by Oxford University Press. [1] The title of the book refers to a trope in American literature representing the interruption of pastoral scenery by technology due to the industrialization of America ...
Lichtman, Allan J. Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928 (Lexington Books, 2000) online; McAndrews, Lawrence J. What They Wished For: American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960-2004 (University of Georgia Press; 2014) 503 pages; influence of Catholics on domestic and foreign policy. online
Robert P. Shuler – Prohibition Party candidate who received the highest vote in any election in US history; Methodist pastor; Johnnie Simpson, Jr. - United Methodist pastor, Councilman for Dickinson TX, [4] and Board Member for Houston-Galveston Area Council. Donald Soper, Baron Soper – prominent Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist
[2]: 370–374 For the volume on United States history during what was popularly called the "Age of Jackson", Woodward and Hofstadter chose between William W. Freehling and Charles Grier Sellers; Hofstadter considered Sellers's prose inadequate, so the coeditors initially appointed Freehling to the task, but after Kenneth M. Stampp—initially ...
Every election cycle, my husband has a story he likes to tell about his first-grade election night assignment—he had to fill in the 2000 Bush vs. Gore electoral map. (I asked him whether he did ...
In the fall of 2012, Dr. Whelan joined forces with two former University of Notre Dame law professors and law school deans, Douglas Kmiec and Ed Gaffney, to write the book “America Undecided: Catholic, Independent and Social Justice Perspectives on Election 2012.” [34] Prof Gaffney is a religious liberty scholar and Prof Kmiec a nationally ...
Pierce/King campaign poster. The Democratic Party held its national convention in Baltimore, Maryland, in June 1852. Benjamin F. Hallett, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, limited the sizes of the delegations to their electoral votes and a vote to maintain the two-thirds requirement for the presidential and vice-presidential nomination was passed by a vote of 269 to 13.