John Irving Roper

The Future of British Defence Policy

The Allies and Arms Control

East Asian Security and the Trilateral Countries: A Report to the Trilateral Commission

ATBMS and Western Security : Missile Defense for Europe

Keeping the Peace in the Post-Cold War Era: Strengthening Multilateral Peacekeeping A Report to the Trilateral Commission

Pour Une Nouvelle Entente Cordiale: La Relance De L'alliance Franco-Britannique En Matiere De Securite

Western Europe and the Gulf: A Study of West European Reactions to the Gulf War

Towards a New Partnership: US-European Relations in the Post-Cold War Era

John Roper Bar Roper

John Francis Hodgess Roper, Baron Roper (born 10 September 1935), is a British politician. John Roper was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School...

John Roper (American football) the free ...

John Alfred Roper (born October 4, 1965 in Houston, Texas) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears,...

Paul Green, Playwright of the Real South

This is the most thorough and comprehensive biography to date of writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his play In Abraham's Bosom and author of the pioneering symphonic drama The Lost Colony, Green was a literary figure of national prominence during the 1920s ...

The Story of Glenmore Mansion: Built by John Roper Branner in 1868, the mansion has been home to only two families during its first 100 years. Since ... its history and the people who lived there.

Glenmore Mansion is a historic house museum built in 1868 by John Roper Branner and is one of Tennessee's finest remaining examples of the Second Empire architectural style. John R. Branner was a wealthy and influential man, serving on various school and university boards and served as the President...

The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857–1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction―vol...

Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century

The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative. Unfulfilled expectations and escalating violence in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia forced retrenchment upon UN peace operationsbut at the same time, a new opportun...

JOHN NEWTON: Life and Letters, Annotated and Illustrated.

This book offers selections from the life story and the many practical letters the Reverend John Newton, probably best known as the author of the celebrated hymn "Amazing Grace" wrote during his long ministry. Once a self-described blasphemer, libertine, and debauched seaman, Newton experienced God'...

Kansas City B-25 Factory (Images of Aviation)

An industrial miracle took place at the Fairfax Airport, on the shores of the Missouri River, between 1941 and 1945. A massive factory was quickly built and a large modification center was soon added. At its peak, over 24,000 greater Kansas City–area residents were employed by North American Aviatio...

Repairing the March of Mars: The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861-1865

There are many collections of letters and Civil War memoirs available today, but very few offer in-depth information about the medical treatment of wounded soldiers. In Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861-1865,...

Unfinished Peace: Report of the International Commission on the Balkans (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Drawing on its extensive, high-level, and politically comprehensive discussions throughout the region, the Commission investigates the causes of the recent Balkan conflicts and provides an independent assessment of the European, American, and UN responses. It calls for a wide range of stabilizin...