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Masur, Laura E. "Plantation as Mission: American Indians, Enslaved Africans, and Jesuit Missionaries in Maryland." Journal of Jesuit Studies 8, no. 3 (2021): 385–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-0803p003.

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Abstract Jesuit endeavors in Maryland are difficult to categorize as either missions or plantations. Archaeological sites associated with the Maryland Mission/ Province bear similarities to Jesuit mission sites in New France as well as plantations in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is clear that in Maryland, the Jesuits did not enforce a distinction between missions as places of conversion and plantations as sites of capitalist production. Moreover, people of American Indian, African, and European ancestry have been connected with Maryland’s Jesuit plantations throughout their history. Arc

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Saeger, James Schofield. "The Mission and Historical Missions: Film and the Writing of History." Americas 51, no. 3 (1995): 393–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1008228.

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Because of the power of film, movies with historical themes affect public perceptions of the past more deeply than do scholarly reconstructions. Film makers and historians search for meaning in separate ways, but their quests can converge. Examples of different approaches to similar destinations are found in a newer film and older historical views of Catholic missions in South America. Released in 1986, The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, displays paternalistic attitudes like those of an earlier generation of North American academic historians. The film's vo

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Woolley, Christopher. "Missions and Missionaries in the Americas:A Special Teaching and Research Collection of The Americas." Americas 74, S2 (2017): S4—S13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tam.2017.90.

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For more than 70 years,The Americas, a publication of the Academy of American Franciscan History, has been a leading forum for scholars studying the history of Spanish America's colonial missions. As the articles collected from the journal for this special issue show, the general trend has been to move beyond the hagiographic treatment of missionaries and towards a more complex understanding of the historical roles played by the colonial missions in rural life.

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Escobar, Samuel. "Missions and Renewal in Latin-American Catholicism." Missiology: An International Review 15, no. 2 (1987): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182968701500203.

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Not enough attention has been paid to the impact of Catholic North American and European missionary work on the contemporary state of Christianity in Latin America. Another important aspect of recent missionary history is the effect of the Protestant missionary presence in Latin America on the Catholic Church there. This article makes an initial exploration into these processes, examining especially how Latin-American Catholicism is experiencing a change in three areas: a self-critical redefinition of the meaning of being a Christian, a fresh understanding of the Christian message in which the

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Pavao-Zuckerman, Barnet. "Rendering Economies: Native American Labor and Secondary Animal Products in the Eighteenth-Century Pimería Alta." American Antiquity 76, no. 1 (2011): 3–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.76.1.3.

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While the ostensible motivation for Spanish missionization in the Americas was religious conversion, missions were also critical to the expansion of European economic institutions in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Native American labor in mission contexts was recruited in support of broader programs of colonialism, mercantilism, and resource extraction. Archaeological research throughout North America demonstrates the importance and extent of the integration of Native labor into regional colonial economies. Animals and animal products were often important commodities within coloni

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Xi, Lian. "Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America." International Bulletin of Mission Research 43, no. 2 (2018): 181–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939318795373.

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In Protestants Abroad David Hollinger reminds us of the vital role of missionaries in American history. The book explores how overseas missions, though often linked with imperialism, produced a counterreaction against it in the course of the twentieth century. As a result of the “cascading self-interrogations” from the mission field, both the missionary enterprise and churches in America were challenged and changed. Missionaries, their children, and missionary-connected Americans helped their country come to grips with the traditions and modern realities of Asia, pioneered in the development o

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Langer, Erick D. "Mission Land Tenure on the Southeastern Bolivian Frontier, 1845-1949." Americas 50, no. 3 (1994): 399–418. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007167.

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The land tenure arrangements of missions in Latin America have received insufficient attention. Given the vast extent of land the missions controlled on the Latin American frontier and the effect that land tenure arrangements had on the functioning of the missions, this is a serious oversight. Rather than focus on land tenure, most studies of the missions have examined primarily issues such as evangelization, the labor regime, and demographic patterns. While these topics are also important, indeed vital, to an understanding of missions, an analysis of land tenure arrangements is a useful way f

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Womack, Deanna Ferree. "Lubnani,Libanais, Lebanese: Missionary Education, Language Policy and Identity Formation in Modern Lebanon." Studies in World Christianity 18, no. 1 (2012): 4–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2012.0003.

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This article examines language instruction and religious and socio-political identity formation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American Protestant and French Jesuit missionary institutions in Lebanon. It compares French, English and Arabic language education policies at Saint Joseph University (Université Saint-Joseph), Syrian Protestant College (now the American University in Beirut) and the American Syria Mission schools under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the USA. The article considers the

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Bruner, Jason. "Inquiring into Empire: Princeton Seminary’s Society of Inquiry on Missions, the British Empire, and the Opium Trade, Ca. 1830‐1850." Mission Studies 27, no. 2 (2010): 194–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338310x536438.

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AbstractPrinceton Seminary was intimately involved in the North American foreign missions movement in the nineteenth century. One remarkable dimension of this involvement came through the student-led Society of Inquiry on Missions, which sought to gather information about the global state of the Christian mission enterprise. This paper examines the Society’s correspondence with Protestant missionaries in China regarding their attitudes to the British Empire in the years 1830‐1850. It argues that the theological notion of providence informed Princetonians’ perceptions of the world, which conseq

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Womack, Deanna Ferree. "Images of Islam: American Missionary and Arab Perspectives." Studies in World Christianity 22, no. 1 (2016): 22–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2016.0135.

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This article examines the story of Protestant missions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ottoman Syria, a region of the Ottoman Empire that included present day Syria and Lebanon. It moves the study of the American Syria Mission away from Euro-centric modes of historiography, first, by adding to the small body of recent scholarship on Arab Protestantism and mission schools in Syria. Second, it focuses on Islam and Christian–Muslim relations in Syrian missionary history, a topic that has received little scholarly attention. Arguing that Muslims played an active part in this history eve

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American Missions – History"

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Nestorova, Tatyana. "American missionaries in Bulgaria (1858-1912) /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148726339902609.

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Bik, Herbert Lian. "A brief history of Baptist Churches in Myanmar." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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James, B. Violet. "American Protestant missions and the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1989. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU026822.

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The thesis examines two American Protestant Missions - the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) and the Mennonites - in the light of the Vietnam War. The CMA was chosen because it was the oldest and largest Protestant Mission in Vietnam. It was a typical American evangelical mission which mentally divided the world into two spheres: the realm of the spirit and the realm of matter. Therefore it understood its primary task as spiritual: to verbalize the Christian message with the hope of establishing a Vietnamese Church. It accomplished this in the birth of the Evangelical Church of Vietnam i

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Moyette, Megan. ""Loud-voiced Lovers of Religious Liberty|" The American and Foreign Christian Union's Missions to Italy during the American Civil War." Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10689297.

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<p> This thesis explores the motivations behind the American and Foreign Christian Union’s missions to Italy during the American Civil War. The AFCU was a missionary organization founded in New York City in 1849 with the ambitious goal of ridding the world of Roman Catholicism. It was born during a time of nativist fervor when American Protestants saw Catholic immigrants as a threat to American democracy. The AFCU believed they could solve the problem of Catholic immigrants by converting the Catholic world to Protestantism, starting with Italy. The leaders of the AFCU believed the world

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Galgano, Robert C. "Feast of souls: Indians and Spaniards in the seventeenth-century missions of Florida and New Mexico." W&M ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623416.

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During the seventeenth century, Spanish conquerors established Franciscan missions among the native inhabitants of Florida and New Mexico. The missionaries in the northern frontier doctrinas of Spain's New World empire adapted methods tested in Iberia and Central and South America to conditions among the Guales, Timucuas, Apalaches, and the various Pueblo peoples. The mission Indians of Florida and New Mexico responded to conquest and conversion in myriad ways. They incorporated Spaniards in traditional ways, they attempted to repel the interlopers, they joined the newcomers and accepted novel

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Semones, Catherine M. "Indigenous Agency within 17th & 18th Century Jesuit Missions: the Creation of a Hybrid Culture in Yaqui and Tarahumar Country." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1275931147.

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Gaskill, Stephanie Rebekah. "Karl Barth, Missions to the Jews, and the American Response." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269265271.

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Chapman, Phillip Douglas. "The whole gospel for the whole world a history of the Bible school movement within American pentecostalism, 1880-1920 /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Sept. 10, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333). Also issued in print.

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Burke, Jeffrey Charles. "The establishment of the American Presbyterian Mission in Egypt, 1854-1940 : an overview." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36557.

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This dissertation examines the educational contributions of the American Mission in Egypt using previously untapped archival documents from the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia. The principal focus of this research is on the establishment of American Mission schools in Egypt. The successes and failures of this missionary movement's work with Copts and Muslims are examined within the context of demographic data and political history. The study also discusses Egyptian anti-missionary sentiments directed against the American Mission in the 1920s and 30s, and constitutes an explorat

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Gibby, Bryan Robert. "Fighting in a Korean War : the American advisory missions from 1946-1953 /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1086202227.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 342 p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Allan R. Millett, Dept. of History. Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-342).

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Books on the topic "American Missions – History"

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McGee, Gary B. Miracles, missions, and American Pentecostalism. Orbis Books, 2010.

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Miracles, missions, and American Pentecostalism. Orbis Books, 2010.

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Scudder, Lewis R. The Arabian Mission's story: In search of Abraham's other son. Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub., 1998.

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The origins of the Anglo-American missionary enterprise in China, 1807-1840. Scarecrow Press, 1996.

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History of the missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in India. Congregational Publ. Society, 1986.

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The American missionaries and north-east India, 1836-1900 A.D.: A documentary study. Spectrum Publishers, 1986.

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"White" Americans in "Black" Africa: Black and White American Methodist missionaries in Liberia, 1820-1875. Routledge, 2001.

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Wuthnow, Robert. Boundless faith: The global outreach of American churches. University of California Press, 2009.

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The missionary movement in American Catholic history. Orbis Books, 1998.

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Kou shu li shi fen xi: Zhongguo jin dai shi shang de Meiguo chuan jiao shi. Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "American Missions – History"

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McMeley, Mark. "The Task of Gender Role Differentiation in Foreign Missions: The Case of American Methodists in Rosario, Argentina, 1870–1880." In Cross-Cultural History and the Domestication of Otherness. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137012821_7.

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Linderski, J. "A Missing Ponticus." In American Journal of Ancient History, edited by Ernst Badian. Gorgias Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.31826/9781463237578-002.

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Horgan, Paul. "1976 Award. About the Activities of a Missioner in America." In American History Awards 1917–1991, edited by Heinz-D. Fischer. De Gruyter, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110972146-063.

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Cutroni, Anabella Abarzúa. "The Flow of UNESCO Experts toward Latin America: On the Asymmetrical Impact of the Missions, 1947–1984." In A History of UNESCO. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-58120-4_10.

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Imbruglia, Girolamo. "1. A Peculiar Idea of Empire: Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern History." In Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas, edited by Marc André Bernier, Clorinda Donato, and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink. University of Toronto Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442663480-003.

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Conroy-Krutz, Emily. "Foreign Missions and Strategy, Foreign Missions as Strategy." In Rethinking American Grand Strategy. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695668.003.0016.

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This chapter describes how thinking about American foreign missions provides an essential reminder of the sometimes hidden or overlooked role of religion in the history of foreign relations and policy. Accordingly, attention to foreign missions reveals the multiple ways that religious belief and priorities could shape political strategies. In foreign missionaries, one can see a group of early nineteenth-century Americans who had a grand plan for the role of the United States in the world. The United States was, in their view, one of the two seats of “true religion” in the world and accordingly it had a duty to lead the rest of the world toward a particular type of Christianity and “civilization.” This can be seen in the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ (ABCFM) general process of location selection as well as their early efforts in China, which they saw as a key strategic location in the overall project of the conversion of the world. Similar dynamics were at work in all of the board’s mission stations, but the particular interest that missionaries, merchants, and diplomats had in relations with China make it a particularly apt location for considering missionary and grand strategy.

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"From Missions to Mission to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions Since World War II." In Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission. BRILL, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004399594_003.

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Symonds, Craig L. "10. The U.S. Navy in the Twenty-First Century." In American Naval History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199394760.003.0010.

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The dissolution of the Soviet Union did not erase the need for a global U.S. Navy, as events in the Middle East and elsewhere provoked serial crises that led to the dispatch of U.S. naval combat groups to various hot spots around the world. ‘The U.S. Navy in the twenty-first century’ explains how the U.S. Navy continues to fulfill many of its historic missions—suppressing pirates, protecting trade, and pursuing drug runners. It is also a potent instrument of American foreign policy and a barometer of American concern. In addition to its deterrent and peacekeeping roles, the U.S. Navy also acts as a first responder to natural or man-made disasters that call for humane intervention.

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Kling, David W. "Protestant Entrance and Christian Expansion (1840–1950)." In A History of Christian Conversion. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195320923.003.0018.

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Beginning in the 1840s, Anglo-French gunboat diplomacy and “unequal treaties” forcibly opened China to European economic interests and, in so doing, introduced unprecedented opportunities for Christian expansion. Catholic missionaries and priests returned to nurture “Old Catholics” and plant new missions, and for the first time Protestants appeared on the scene with millennial hopes of reaching “China’s millions.” This chapter begins by giving general attention to reasons for the Chinese to reject or accept the Christian message. It then turns to specific discussions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the China Inland Mission, “Pastor Xi” (Xi Liaozhi), and first-generation Fuzhou Protestants. It concludes with an examination of the views of American theological liberals who, beginning in the late nineteenth century, rejected the traditional Christian emphasis on the necessity of conversion.

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Kling, David W. "Catholics in Colonial America (1500–1700)." In A History of Christian Conversion. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195320923.003.0013.

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Conversionary efforts in the New World mirrored attitudes and practices in the Old. Christendom remained as much a project in the New as in the Old, and thus religious differences remained as problematic in the Americas as they did in Europe. Images of military conflict—combat, battle, and victory—language familiar on the Continent—infused the outlook of early modern Catholic missionaries, whereas Spanish and French missionaries in the New World often had the arm of the state to protect them and, all too often, to coerce the natives. This chapter selectively examines initial missionary efforts in a variety of locations—Spanish missionary outreach in the Caribbean, Peru, and Alta California and French missions in North America. The depth of Native American conversions was as varied as the methods used to produce them. On a superficial level, conversion meant a transfer of loyalty or allegiance, often without a full knowledge of what that transfer entailed. Or, with defeat, conversion might represent a conscious acknowledgment of the more powerful Christian God over weaker traditional deities.

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Conference papers on the topic "American Missions – History"

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Heiss, Jack E. "Who Rides These Things?" In 2010 Joint Rail Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2010-36153.

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While planners and politicians alike go about kicking the tires of various trains, and traveling abroad on fact-finding missions about HSR, the question remains whether Americans will patronize high-speed rail in sufficient number to justify the investment. A common practice is to identify an existing or abandoned rail line as the candidate route that connects population centers, identify the former stations for rehabilitation, select a technology, and then perform an investment-grade ridership study to determine whether sufficient revenues will be generated. This approach may prove sufficient

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Reports on the topic "American Missions – History"

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Karlstrom, Karl, Laura Crossey, Allyson Matthis, and Carl Bowman. Telling time at Grand Canyon National Park: 2020 update. National Park Service, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2285173.

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Grand Canyon National Park is all about time and timescales. Time is the currency of our daily life, of history, and of biological evolution. Grand Canyon’s beauty has inspired explorers, artists, and poets. Behind it all, Grand Canyon’s geology and sense of timelessness are among its most prominent and important resources. Grand Canyon has an exceptionally complete and well-exposed rock record of Earth’s history. It is an ideal place to gain a sense of geologic (or deep) time. A visit to the South or North rims, a hike into the canyon of any length, or a trip through the 277-mile (446-km) len

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