Soldier Parrott Karen Lawson Divine Callings offers a rare

Divine Callings offers a rare sociological examination of this markedly understudied phenomenon within black ministry

The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline captures the likeness of a man whose life was a landscape littered with contradictions--a man whose readers often forgave his Jekyll-and-Hyde behavior because of his inventive portrayal of a country trying to subdue the last of its natural landscapes and make sense of its teeming cities

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and placing these historical moments into conversation with the archive of Mexican American print culture

Soldier Parrott Karen Lawson Divine Callings offers a rareSoldier Parrot brings a new level of research and personal grit to Civil War history with this riveting account of how Jacob Parrott, an 18 year old, illiterate orphan from Ohio became the first soldier to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Parrott, a private in the Union Army, volunteered in 1862 for a secret mission behind Confederate lines to steal a train, tear up railroad tracks, burn bridges, and cut telegraph lines. The mission