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The Newark Earthworks: Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings (Studies in Religion and Culture)

by Lindsay Jones

bookshelves: anthropology, archeology, eastern-woodlands, midwest, native-americans, hopewell, ohio, currently-reading

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Jul 26, 2025 11:06PM

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The Anasazi in a Changing Environment (School of American Research Advanced Seminars)

by George J. Gumerman

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“To her mind the Senate was a place where people went to recite speeches, and she naively assumed that the speeches were useful and had a purpose, but as they did not interest her she never went again. This is a very common conception of Congress; many Congressmen share it.”
― Henry Adams, Democracy, an American novel

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“Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: feminist, human-rights, pro-feminist, roosevelt

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“History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.”
― Gordon S. Wood

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“Trees, like people, struggle for existence, and an aged tree, like an aged person, has not only a striking appearance, but an interesting biography.”
― Enos A. Mills, The Story of a Thousand-year Pine

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“I find it hard to describe what it is like to look fully into eyes that one has known that well--known better than one knows the look of one's own eyes, actually--and then put away, deliberately forgotten. That instantly reasserted intimacy, that resumption of what looks like friendly concern, is like nakedness, like exposure.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

tags: eyes, intimacy, transparency

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