Adam's Ancestors

Adam's Ancestors
Author: David N. Livingstone
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1421401436

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He reveals how what began as biblical criticism became a theological apologetic to reconcile religion with science—evolution in particular—and was later used to support arguments for white supremacy and segregation. From heresy to orthodoxy, from radicalism to conservatism, from humanitarianism to racism, Adam's Ancestors tells an intriguing tale of twists and turns in the cultural politics surrounding the age-old question, "Where did we come from?"

Adam's Ancestors

Adam's Ancestors
Author: David N. Livingstone
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2008-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801888131

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Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists - humans inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet. This book traces the history of and debates surrounding the idea of non-Adamic humanity.

Descent from Glory

Descent from Glory
Author: Paul C. Nagel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674198296

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There has never been any doubt that the Adams family was America's first family in our politics and memory. This research-based and insightful book is a multigenerational biography of that family from the founder father John through the mordant writer Brooks.

Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Mass.,

Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Mass.,
Author: Joseph Gardner Bartlett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1927
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

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Henry Adams (ca. 1583-1646) was the son of John Adams and Agnes Stone, the grandson of Henry Adams, and the great-grandson of John Adams. He married Emily Squire, and the family emigrated in 1638 from England to Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England to about 1272 A.D. Famous descendants of Henry Adams include U.S. Presidents John Adams (1735-1826) and John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Massachusetts governor Samuel Adams (1722-1803), and U.S. Representative and U.S. Emassador to Great Britain Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886).

The Adams Family

The Adams Family
Author: James Truslow Adams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1958
Genre: Adams family
ISBN:

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Adams Family Correspondence

Adams Family Correspondence
Author: Lyman Henry Butterfield
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1963
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674022782

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A collection of letters exchanged by members of the Adams family through three full generations and part of a fourth beginning with the courtship of John Adams and Abigail Smith and ending with the death of Abigail Brooks Adams, wife of the first Charles Francis Adams, United States minister to London during the American Civil War.

The Addams Family (Songbook)

The Addams Family (Songbook)
Author: Marshall Brickman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1458433145

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(Vocal Selections). The creepy and kooky Addams Family hit Broadway in April 2010 with this musical adaptation of the characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons for The New Yorker starting in 1938. This songbook features piano/vocal arrangements (with the melody in the piano part) for 14 musical numbers from the Tony Award-nominated show: The Addams Family Theme * Crazier Than You * Happy/Sad * In the Arms * Just Around the Corner * Let's Not Talk About Anything Else but Love * Live Before We Die * The Moon and Me * Morticia * One Normal Night * Pulled * Waiting * What If * When You're an Addams.

Genealogy

Genealogy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1912
Genre: Genealogy
ISBN:

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