In the spirit of Guns, Germs, and Steel, author and cultural historian Larry Len Peterson details the collision of European and Native American civilizations and the bloody aftermath that doomed a once-thriving people. Wide-ranging and brimming with fresh insights, American Trinity focuses on how the West was shaped by three implacable forces: Christian imperialism, Thomas Jefferson's Doctrine of Discovery, and George Armstrong Custer's hubris. As Peterson says, "History is important. When there is no knowledge of the past, there cannot be a vision of the future." Includes chapter endnotes, bibliography, and index.

The student that doesnt follow the rules in school is soon suspended or expelled. The employee that doesnt follow company policy is fired. The company that sells shoddy products will eventually fail. Standards are how we measure peoples actions. All Americans have Standards that have to be upheld. The American Trinity appear on every coin and are Americas Standards. Sadly, too many Americans have lost sight of the true meaning of Americas Standards of E Pluribus Unum, Liberty, and In God We Trust. There is an ideological battle between those who appreciate the American Trinity and those who dont. Those who dont appreciate the American Trinity are waging the battle in our publicly funded government schools and universities against our youth. The results are the dismantling of Americas values and those that appreciate the American Trinity are losing this battle. The American Trinity is a weapon for those that appreciate Americas Standards and feels the calling to fight in the battle to preserve Americas Standards. Every parent and grandparent that wants their children and grandchildren to grow up with the same freedoms and responsibilities that they had has a responsibility to pass down Americas Standards. They have a responsibility to pass down The American Trinity to future generations.

The revised edition of American Trinity: Jefferson, Custer, and the Spirit of the West details the collision of European and Native American civilizations and the bloody aftermath that doomed a once-thriving people. Wide-ranging, painstakingly researched, and brimming with fresh insights, American Trinity is an engaging, accessible read on how the West was shaped by the implacable forces of Thomas Jefferson's Doctrine of Discovery, and Euro-American hubris as embodied by George Armstrong Custer.

From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray them under questioning. He repeatedly lied about love affairs. And he defended the use of the atomic bomb he helped create, before ultimately lobbying against nuclear proliferation. Through narratives that cross time and space, a set of characters bears witness to the life of Oppenheimer, from a secret service agent who tailed him in San Francisco, to the young lover of a colleague in Los Alamos, to a woman fleeing McCarthyism who knew him on St. John. As these men and women fall into the orbit of a brilliant but mercurial mind at work, all consider his complicated legacy while also uncovering deep and often unsettling truths about their own lives. In this stunning, elliptical novel, Louisa Hall has crafted a breathtaking and explosive story about the ability of the human mind to believe what it wants, about public and private tragedy, and about power and guilt. Blending science with literature and fiction with biography, Trinity asks searing questions about what it means to truly know someone, and about the secrets we keep from the world and from ourselves.

"Join Otto the bulldog and his best friend, Dennis, as they travel through time to learn about the three values that make up the American Trinity inscribed on every U.S. coin: Liberty, In God We Trust, and E Pluribus Unum ..."--

''Discusses the individual and collective achievement of the three American architects.''--

The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason. Now one class of such men endeavor to transfer to things incorporeal and spiritual the ideas they have formed, whether through experience of the bodily senses, or by natural human wit and diligent quickness, or by the aid of art, from things corporeal; so as to seek to measure and conceive of the former by the latter. Aeterna Press