States Rights

An accurate picture of the LGBTQ rights movement's achievements is incomplete without this surprising history of how corporate America joined the cause. At a time when the LGBTQ movement is facing considerable political backlash, The Queering of Corporate America complicates the narrative of corporate conservatism and provides insights into the future legal, political, and cultural implications of this unexpected relationship.

How does the First Amendment really work? Is it a principle or a value? What is hate speech and should it always be banned? Are we free to declare our religious beliefs in the public square? What role, if any, should companies like Facebook play in policing the exchange of thoughts, ideas, and opinions? With clarity and power, Stanley Fish explores these complex questions in The First.

In the summer of 1962, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began to express interest in targeting one of the South's most brutally segregated cities. Nicknamed “Bombingham”, the city had witnessed the bombing of over a dozen Black homes and churches in the previous five years. A victory in Birmingham was a goal that would embolden the Civil Rights Movement like never before. Together with Ralph Abernathy and other SCLC leaders, King recruited and organized volunteers for sit-ins, demonstrations, boycotts, and protests throughout the city.

New York Times best-selling author Carl Anderson has gathered together many of his most thought-provoking speeches, articles, and essays that lay bare the facts of the state's unjustified restriction of religious beliefs. The power of his words makes it clear that if nothing is done now, there will continue to be more erosion of these special freedoms set forth by our Founding Fathers.

This story is for all those who have ever wanted to see President Obama in person but couldn't. It tells what it was actually like to be there among the 50,000 or so other people that day, March 7, 2015, when the first black president of the United States of America came to speak at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina. It was the first time most members of the unit had traveled so far from home. The men faced daily battles against racism and inferior treatment, training, and supplies. They suffered from the physical difficulties of military life, the horrors of warfare, and homesickness and worried about loved ones left at home without financial support.

Der ehemalige Präsident des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, Andreas Voßkuhle, warnte, die größte Bedrohung für die Institutionen des Staates gehe von rechts aus. Die aktuellen Ermittlungsverfahren gegen rechtsterroristische Vereinigungen unterstreichen die Gefahren, die von Rechtsextremen in Polizei, Bundeswehr, Justiz und Verfassungsschutz ausgehen. Zuletzt wurde dies in der bundesweiten Razzia gegen mutmaßliche rechtsextreme Umsturzpläne aus dem Milieu von Reichsbürgern und AfD deutlich.

Has a pot-bellied pig ruined anyone else’s life? No?... Just me, then? Leo Sullivan is a passionate environmentalist with a sustainable Christmas tree farm. He is constantly at odds with Camille Ellis, the owner of a successful golf course––which has fertilizer runoff that pollutes a local stream. Despite their differences, Leo and Camille keep being drawn together by his ornery and lovable pot-bellied pig, Charlotte. When Charlotte forces Leo and Camille to confront the sparks of attraction they’ve been trying to ignore, will they find common ground and a way to coexist, or will ...

After a bet with his friends, billionaire Dane has to live off his lowest paid employee’s salary for a month. That just happens to be dolphin trainer Emmy — and he wants more than just her help, he wants her! Magnetic Dane Wilder dates beautiful, brilliant, and vivacious ladies––lots of them. Down-to-earth Emmy Scott is too smart to fall for her womanizing billionaire boss. When Emmy’s favorite dolphin spits in Dane's face, the woman is even more confident in her decision to steer clear of the wealthy and powerful man. That is, until he makes her an offer she can’t refuse. When ...

My favorite high school teacher is blocking traffic and wearing a wedding gown… Jaded police officer Austin Zimmer thought he had seen it all. That is, until he came across the hottest teacher from his high school, Ms. Summers, dressed as a bride and creating a traffic jam. Penelope Summers is having the worst day of her life. She never dreamed she’d be a runaway bride. Her humiliation multiplies when she realizes the handsome cop rescuing her is a former student. The cop and the science teacher he had a crush on have undeniable chemistry. When Penny is accused of a terrible crime and ...

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of the disparate challenges Black American reformers lodged against race across the long nineteenth century. It factors their opposition into the nation's history of race and reconstructs a reform tradition largely ignored in accounts of Black activism. Black-controlled newspapers, societies, churches, and conventions provided the principal loci and resources for questioning race. In these contexts, people of African descent generated a lexicon for refuting race, debated its logic, and, ultimately, reinterpreted it.

Here second book in a series about an RV living homeschooling family. Each month brings the Wright family to a new state with a new educational theme to explore and play with. They prove that learning can happen all the time, anywhere, and that being with family is fun! Explore a dinosaur dig with the Wrights as they road school in Utah. What will Aidan and Nadia discover about the mysterious device they found in Arizona?

Do you want to learn about Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower but don’t have the time or patience to read a thick book? Then this is the short and concise book for you! In the book you will read about the many accomplishments of Dwight Eisenhower, including: His rise through the ranks in the Army to become the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. Served in the U.S. Army for over four decades. Becoming General of the Army. Elected the 34th President of the United States. Ended the Korean War within his first year as president. Kept America at peace during the ...

Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain is the remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years, overcoming adversity—with the strength of their love and commitment—to bring about meaningful change.

Noted historian Edward Steers, Jr., sets the record straight in this engaging and authoritative book, analyzing the facts and clarifying some of the most prominent misconceptions about the 16th president's life. He investigates claims that have found a foothold in mainstream lore, ranging from the contention that Lincoln had a troubled and perhaps scandalous early adulthood in Springfield, to more serious attacks on his character, such as the accusation that he was reluctant to emancipate enslaved people and held racist beliefs.

I’m just a normal guy, who lives to ride, until she comes along and ruins everything… Joe Scott has always considered himself to be an ‘Average Joe.’ The most unique thing about him is his love of riding motorcycles. Alexandra Morrow is beautiful, confident, obscenely wealthy, and she has a bone to pick with Joe. When Alex tracks down Joe, she brings a tornado of trouble with her and completely turns Joe’s ordinary world upside down. Will the sexy motorcycle man be able to handle the heat when sparks fly with the fiery billionairess? Find out in Georgia Guy. The States of Love ...

When pregnant Bristol suddenly finds herself alone on the side of the road and about to pop, hunky football player Lane is the only one to pull over. As he steps up to help, could this be the unconventional start of something incredible? On our way to the hospital while I was in labor, my jealous boyfriend became convinced that I cheated on him––even though I didn’t. Deep down, he knows I would never do that. But he still pulled over and kicked me out of his car. It’s as if passing vehicles don’t see me. The only person who pulls over is a dumb jock, who doesn’t have any clue ...

James Ostrowski discusses his forty years in the Liberty Movement, his thirty-five years as a lawyer devoted to the Bill of Rights and his landmark book, Progressivism: A Primer, that finally cracked the code of the ideology that has dominated American politics for 100 years. He explains the origin and vast accomplishments of the historical Liberty Movement, its decline and replacement by progressivism. He further explains the modern resurgence of the movement and why it faltered after the Ron Paul presidential campaigns and how competing movements surpassed it. He critiques these opposing ...

Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, she was also a civil rights activist who sang at the March on Washington. And she traveled the world, too! Experience all the inspiring moments in Mahalia's big life in this thrilling biography, packed with fun facts, like who invented rock and roll! Short and engaging chapters are interspersed with special lists and other information made to order to engage kids, whether they're already biography fans or "have to" write a report for school.

When widower Colt is forced to share his ranch with his late wife’s sister, feisty Sadie, it’s more than he can handle — especially with the forbidden attraction simmering between them… A sexy enemies-to-lovers romance! Widower Colt simply wants to mourn the loss of his beloved wife in peace on his sprawling Colorado ranch, Marigold Meadow. City girl Sadie misses her older sister, Maddie, more than words can say. Colt and Sadie have nothing in common, other than their love for Maddie and their grief over her passing. When Maddie’s will reveals that her half of Marigold Meadow has ...