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The Darkness Among Us: A Look at the Sinister Growth of the Occult and How Dangerously Close it is to You
William C. Viser
Without sensationalizing, Viser paints a dramatic and unnerving picture of the occult influences in our society and tells how they threaten even Christian families. (From Amazon.com.)
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The Glory of Adam and the Afflictions of the Righteous: Pauline Suffering in Context
C. Marvin Pate
This study examines the role that Adam theology played in the thinking of the apostle Paul, arguing that the double motif of glory/suffering and the figure of Adam might be a valuable hermeneutic for other key Pauline texts on suffering. For each of those texts, a three-fold procedure is followed: the identification of the interwoven themes of suffering and glory; the uncovering of the notion of the restoration of Adam's glory through righteous suffering; and the passage's contribution to the understanding of the tri-level relationship existing among the afflictions of Christ, Paul and the latter's audience. (From Amazon.com.)
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Clark County Arkansas: Past and Present
Wendy Bradley Richter
This project grew out of the Clark County Historical Association's desire to preserve the past and present for the future. After a year's study by two committees and some discussion among the whole group, the Association decided that it should produce a county history. What follows is the result of consistent efforts by a number of people and the cooperation of countless others. Association members ransacked the Association's files, issues of the Association's Journal, official records, manuscript collections and other sources to produce the most accurate recounting possible of the various topics included. The Association solicited family history sketches to be included, with the only criterion that the families had to have connection with the county.
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They Can't Go Home: A History of Northwestern Garland County, Arkansas
Wendy Bradley Richter and Inez Halsell Cline
A history of Arkansas' Northwestern Garland County including Buckville and Cedar Glades.
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A Covenanted People: History of the First Baptist Church Arkadelphia, Arkansas 1851-1976
S. Ray Granade
An investigation of one fellowship and its relative importance and place in the religious and secular world (local, state, national and international) within which existed and continues to exist.
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Higher Education in Antebellum Alabama
S. Ray Granade
A profile and assessment of academies, military schools, and colleges.
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Violence: An Instrument of Policy in Reconstruction Alabama
S. Ray Granade
The idea of violence during Reconstruction by now conjures up a stereotyped mental picture. Invariably, the time is midnight. Scattered clouds allow the moon brief glimpses of the earthbound scene. But the light from even this hidden source is sufficient to reveal the silent band of draped figures riding through the night. The group surrounds a tiny cabin and the muffled voice of the leader calls a Negro to the porch. Almost invisible in the shadows, the victim emerges from the deeper gloom of the door. Perhaps merely a lashing awaits him, though he may face an impromptu lynching, a load of 00 buckshot, a pistol ball, or a mutilating Bowie knife. After the deed is done, two blasts of the leader's whistle signal a general remounting of the hooded figures. Then, in a stillness broken only by horses' hoofs or possibly the sounds of agony from the mass of raw flesh which had once been a human being, the still silent band departs.
Yet such Ku Klux Klan visitations formed only a small part of the turbulaence in Reconstruction Alabama. Federal soldiers, white and black individuals, and secret Klan-like organizations of blacks and whites shared a taste for violence to which Alabama played host. Though life undeniabliy continued (farmers worried about poor crops, politicians about elections, and nearly everybody about hunger and destitution brought on by the war), turmoil formed the backdrop against which the play was held.
There were many reasons for the violence. The frontier tradition and the Old South left a legacy of ferocity. Specific problems called for a solution, with force seemingly the only instrument available. Political supremacy called for power to maintain or overthrow it, giving both sides an excuse to utilize extremities. While most of the violence came from political rivalry, the most basic reason ws the elemental emotion of fear, regardless of the perpetrators. A combination of these and other factors produced lawlessness on a large scale in certain areas of Alabama. To understand the extreme conditions which permeated life in Alabama during this era, the fabric of interwoven reasons must be investigated.
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