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From the ever intriguing and appealing actress Angelina Jolie comes the personal journals she compiled while performing humanitarian relief efforts in such countries as Sierra Leone and Tanzania, Pakistan and Cambodia. Three years ago, award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Here are her memoirs from her journeys to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan,...
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"S.L. Hinde's intensely interesting volume 'The Fall of the Congo Arabs'...describes the Belgian expedition into the Upper Congo Basin in 1892...some...observations are too horrible for quotation...the passion for cannibalism."-Chicago Tribune, March 11, 1897
"Captain Hinde...entered the service of the Congo Free State...got his chance to distinguish himself in the remarkable campaign by which the Arab power was overthrown...soldiery on both sides...
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"Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers, by Samuel C. Reid...is the most entertaining work of the kind that has come under our view...gives an accurate account of the scouting expeditions of McCulloch's Rangers...including the skirmishes with the Indians...sketches of the lives of those celebrated partisan chiefs, Hays, McCulloch, and Walker." -Natchez Weekly Courier, March 22, 1848
"Samuel Chester Reid...joined Captain Ben McCulloch's...
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"Burgon identifies Petra with ancient Edom, and reads its present-day desolation as the fulfillment of biblical prophecies concerning Israel's ancient enemy." - The Creationist Debate (2006)
"Petra...lies in ancient Edom, a perfect place of refuge from the Antichrist during the Tribulation period." -The A Complete Overview of Bible Prophecy (2012)
"Petra stands in the land of ancient Edom, modern-day Jordan." - The Swindoll Study Bible (2018)
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Six Months on a Slaver is a true narrative providing a realistic descriptions of the horrors of the slave trade experience of an American seaman, Edward Manning (1839-1919), who ships from New London, Conn., in 1860, on a three years' cruise, in an ostensible whaler, which proves to be a slaver on its way to the African coast.
It is a plain, unvarnished narrative of the manner of obtaining and of conveying a cargo of Africans from the African coast...
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In the aftermath of World War I, international organizations descended upon the destitute children living in the rubble of Budapest and the city became a testing ground for how the West would handle the most vulnerable residents of a former enemy state.
Budapest's Children reconstructs how Budapest turned into a laboratory of transnational humanitarian intervention. Friederike Kind-Kovács explores the ways in which migration, hunger, and destitution...
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"Roche published the first account of the last slave ship to enter the United States....She was the artist/writer daughter of a prominent white family here. She spent a great deal of time interviewing the people who had been illegally brought into South Alabama to be the slaves of several local men." -Michael Thomason, PhD, Lagniappe Weekly
In 1914 Emma Langdon Roche (1878-1945) published the book "Historic Sketches of the South," which book...
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What events led to the 1896 Matabele uprising in which 244 settlers were slain in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, and in which hundreds of homes, ranches and mines were burned, and what role did famous big game hunter Frederick Selous play in rescuing the surviving settlers?
In 1896, Frederick Selous would publish a stirring personal narrative of the uprising and his role in saving the lives of numerous settlers in his book titled "Sunshine and Storm...
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In 1980, Elaine Harvey worked for the International Red Cross in the Cambodian refugee camps immediately after the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. It was a time when sorrow fell like monsoon rain. "I was not a victim of war, poverty, or starvation, but I was a witness. As a witness, I came to understand that front lines take a toll in our lives. They test how far we will go, how much we will give and how deep we will travel."
In 2007 and 2009,...
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In his 1825 book "View of the Hebrews," Rev. Ethan Smith suggests that Native Americans are descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. These tribes were said to have disappeared after being taken captive by the Assyrians in the 8th century BCE.
Smith's speculation was inspired by the apocryphal 2 Esdras 13:41, which says that the Ten Tribes traveled to a far country, "where never mankind dwelt"-which Smith interpreted to mean North America. Smith...
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"Dr. J.H. Allen of Portland...a strong and interesting speaker and many of his ideas and the results of his researches are original and unique...ancestry of Queen Victoria has been traced all the way back to Adam." -Spokane Chronicle, Nov. 8, 1902
"J.H. Allen, evangelist, is evidently a man who believes that the Bible says is the word of God...the author dispels the prevailing notion that all prophecy is fulfilled...the children of Abraham are to...
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John Eliot (1604-1690), a Puritan missionary to the American Indians known as "the apostle to the Indians" noticed that the Indians he observed shared many similarities to Jews. Reverend Thomas Thorowgood (1595-1669) was a friend of John Eliot's, and an efficient promoter of missionary work among the Indians. Based on his correspondence with Eliot discussing the similarities of Indians to Israelites, Thorowgood published in 1660 "Jews in America,...
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First settled by non-Native Americans in 1732, what is the history of the Shenandoah Valley?
In 1833, the Samuel Kercheval (1767-1845), the first major historian of the Shenandoah Valley, published "A History of the Valley of Virginia."
Topics covered by Kercheval include Indian wars, Indian settlements, first settlement of the valley, customs of the settlers, attacks on settlers, Dunmore's war with the Indians, War of the Revolution, life of settlers,...
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Who helps in situations of forced displacement? How and why do they get involved?
In “Helping Familiar Strangers”, Louise Olliff focuses on one type of humanitarian group, refugee diaspora organizations (RDOs), to explore the complicated impulses, practices, and relationships between these activists and the "familiar strangers" they try to help. By documenting findings from ethnographic research and interviews with resettled and displaced persons,...
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In the thick of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, and through the travel bans his administration issued in 2017, journalist Kelsey Freeman spent nine months interviewing Central American and Mexican migrants in a shelter in central Mexico, along the migrant path. No Option But North interweaves their stories with research and anecdotes from Freeman's experiences to reveal the fundamental moral quandaries involved in contemporary migration-from...
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What caused Germans from the Palatinates region of Germany to first flee to America in the early 1700s, and why did they flee from New York for Pennsylvania?
In 1897, Rev Sanford Hoadley Cobb (1838-1910) published "The Story of the Palatines: An Episode in Colonial History," answering these questions and more regarding this unique group of early American pioneers.
The German Palatines were early 18th century emigrants from the Middle Rhine region...
18) Pioneering in the Pampas: Or, the First Four Years of a Settler's Experience in the la Plata Camps
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Richard Arthur Seymour (1843-1906) as he tells us, sailed from Liverpool in January, 1865, with the intention of making a rapid fortune by cattle and sheep-farming in the Argentine Republic. In his 1869 book "Pioneering in the Pampas" before us he gives an unpretending plain unvarnished narrative of a settler's experience during four years of cattle and sheep farming on the Pampas of South America.
The author and his companion, after having gained...
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The last celebrated captivity of white women, taken by Utes after an uprising at the White River Acency.-The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (1981)
"Josephine Meeker and Flora Price were held captive by a group of White River Utes after the Indians killed 10 men at the Indian Agency."-Worth Their Salt: Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah (1996)
"Twelve Utes, led by Quinkent, then kidnapped 63-year-old Arvilla and daughter Josephine Meeker...
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Is it a fact that African-Americans owned slaves in the South before the Civil War, but few people seem to know it?
If what Calvin Dill Wilson states in his short 19-page book "Black Masters," is true, wealthy free African-Americans bought and sold members of their own race just as did the Southern white planter, and African-Americans, once slaves and freed by their white masters, became slave-owners, themselves.
"To judge from all that is known...
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