Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Strathern

Sequence Concurrent with the Aztec Empire was the Inca Empire, which at its height occupied the remote east coast and hinterland of South America from the southmost tip of Colombia ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-13 | Author:Lindie Naughton;

To Eva Cork Jail. 1 September 1919. Dearest Old Darling, I do hope that you are having the lovely weather over in that most awful country that I am having ...
( Category: Europe February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Jodie Peeler

CHAPTER 12 “What are we going to do about it?” Ben Robertson walked the streets of New York the evening of January 7, the glow of streetlamps making him feel ...
( Category: United States February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Chaffin

THIRTY-SIX “To See What I Have Never Seen Before” Amid the late-January chill of 1787, as the upcoming reconvening of the Assembly of Notables had dominated Parisian conversations, Thomas Jefferson ...
( Category: Historical February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:A. J. Langguth

Martin Van Buren 12 · Martin Van Buren (1836–37) Martin Van Buren had been positioning himself for the 1836 presidential election for the past two years. He had seen Andrew ...
( Category: Civil War February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Robert Wilson

As they moved the chains across the northern border of what would become the new park, resorting to triangulation in spots where the chains could not easily go, King only ...
( Category: United States February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Unknown

Fortification “It is evident that without fortifications a place cannot be considered secure unless held by considerably greater num bers than the enemy can bring to assail it. No less ...
( Category: Historical February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Rae

CHAPTER XV ~ LONDON 1766-1767. Aet. 43 Arriving in London early in November, Smith seems to have remained on in the capital for the next six months. The body of ...
( Category: Historiography February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Capper [Charles Capper]

CHAPTER SEVEN .The Schoolmistress (1837-1838) I Margaret Fuller's first impressions of Providence were not especially happy ones. Feeling both sick and a little homesick, she wrote wistfully to Emerson on ...
( Category: Political Parties February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Cairns, David

The possibility of a new opera house where French operas could be put on had long been canvassed, and in the summer and autumn of 1829 it was again in ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-18 | Author:Richard Jay Hutto

The royal visitors arrived the next day in “an elegant state carriage, with servants in grand livery,” and stayed for more than an hour. Mrs. Lee, who did not speak ...
( Category: Women in History February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Steven L. McKenzie [Steven L. McKenzie]

( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Cairns, David

By the time he wrote that, in the spring of 1849, his reasons for staying in Paris had become more compelling and more personal. In October 1848 Harriet had the ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael O'Brien

IMAGE OR SUBSTANCE? Before he became president, Kennedy’s public image was superficial and one-dimensional, paying scant attention to his political views. Jack’s youth, war heroism, handsome features, large energetic family, ...
( Category: Historical February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:James S. Robbins

LAURENCE SIMMONS BAKER WRITING LONG AFTER THE EVENTS at Gettysburg, Henry Heth echoed what was by then a common critique of the battle: “The failure to crush the Federal army ...
( Category: American Civil War February 25,2020 )