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According to David Rossell in the Journal of the Early Republic, in his first book, Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America, Balleisen "seeks to show how bankruptcy both sprang from and helped shape commerce during the antebellum period."
David Ruggles (March 15, 1810 – December 16, 1849) was an African-American abolitionist in New York who resisted slavery by his participation in a Committee of Vigilance, which worked on the Underground Railroad to help fugitive slaves reach free states.
David Gilbert (born October 6, 1944) is an American radical leftist who participated in the deadly 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored vehicle. Gilbert was a founder of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and became a member of the Weather Underground . [ 2 ]
Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
In both wars, context made it tricky to deal with moral challenges. What is moral in combat can at once be immoral in peacetime society. Shooting a child-warrior, for instance. In combat, eliminating an armed threat carries a high moral value of protecting your men. Back home, killing a child is grotesquely wrong.
Chapter 10: Modern Art, Music, Literature, and Films - Numerous examples of despair and alienation in modern productions. Chapter 11: Our Society - How the values of personal peace and affluence permeate our society. Chapter 12: Manipulation and the New Elite - How our society has opened itself up to the coming of an elite authoritarian state.
Ranking member David Scott, D-Ga., left and chairman Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., conduct a House Agriculture Committee hearing on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
David Duchovny has starred in two major TV hits (The X-Files and Californication, for which he’s won a total of two Golden Globes), received an M.A. from Yale, published a handful of novels ...