Product Description: Religion in Philanthropic Organizations explores the tensions inherent in religious philanthropies across a variety of organizations and examines the effect assumptions about "professional" philanthropy have had on how religious philanthropies carry out their activities...read more

Product Description: Race relations loom large in the history of 20th century America. This five volume set encapsulates this turbulent century, with decade-by-decade coverage taking in all the key events, influential voices, legislation, cultural output and theories of inter-group interaction.

Product Description: A book of love, hope, and warmth, The Christmas Quilt is about home, about roots, and about "one small snowflake following another, settling on the ground soft like a kiss from heaven, covering Smoky Hollow like a blanket of grace that shines white with goodness...read more

Product Description: The 1940s and 1950s were decades of far-reaching change and mobilization in the United States. White culture strove to make nonwhites invisible with segregation and discrimination as Southern blacks continued the Great Migration north and the government brought in Mexican labor via the Bracero Program to take up labor slack while U...read more

Presents primary documents to support an exploration of race relations in the United States from 1785 to the present.

Product Description: The shiny aluminum tree was the symbol of everything he thought was right in their lives and everything she thought was wrong. It was 1958 and Jimmy Jackson had it all: a wife, two kids, and the promotion that was his ticket to success...read more

Chronicles the life and work of John Calvin, interpreter of the Bible, theologian, and reformer.

Product Description: This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa and Europe prior to 1500, the work covers chronologically the transatlantic slave trade, domestic slave trading, slave systems, the abolition movements, and the aftermath of emancipation throughout the Americas...read more

Product Description: A book of love, hope, and warmth, The Christmas Quilt is about home, about roots, and about "one small snowflake following another, settling on the ground soft like a kiss from heaven, covering Smoky Hollow like a blanket of grace that shines white with goodness...read more

Product Description: With spiritual and emotional candor, Thomas J. Davis explains how he and his family struggled with faith, love, and hope during his wife's lengthy fight with leukemia. David movingly recounts his wife's spirited battle with cancer, from the first diagnosis to the final moments...read more

Product Description: This work provides a detailed analysis of the development of Calvin's eucharistic doctrine. In doing so, it demonstrates the importance of examining the full range of Calvin's writings and dispels the notion that one need look only at the 1559 "Institutes" to grasp Calvin's eucharistic theology...read more

Discusses Africa and the Americas, slavery, emancipation, and free African Americans in North and South America and the Caribbean

Discusses Africa and the Americas, slavery, emancipation, and free African Americans in North and South America and the Caribbean

Analyzes the trials held in colonial New York concerning an alleged slave conspiracy, and looks at what this indicates about the city's racial and ethnic tensions, and legal system