Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Peter Ackroyd
CHAPTER 44 What’s New? The crowd lives upon news and upon rumour. Elizabeth I recalled that, as a princess, she had asked her governess, “What news was at London?” On ...
( Category:
Europe
October 5,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Max Hastings [Hastings, Max]
TWELVE The Turn of Fortune CHURCHILL’S PURGE OF desert generals was greeted in Britain with unsurprising caution. So many newly promoted officers had been welcomed as Wellingtons, only to be ...
( Category:
Historical
October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 1993-11-15 | Author:Norman Maclean [Maclean, Norman]
A few summers ago, thirty years after the fire, I sent what I hoped was gentle word through a common friend to a mother of one of the Mann Gulch ...
( Category:
Nature & Ecology
October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 1955-10-05 | Author:Kendall, Paul Murray
summarily tried by a commission under Sir Ralph Assheton, the Vice-Constable. Volubly the Duke of Buckingham confessed, poured out the whole story of the conspiracy, in the desperate hope of ...
( Category:
Europe
October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Plutarch
He begat children against Apollo’s wishes.96 When Marcus Gellius, who was thought to be the son of a slave, had read some letters to the Senate in a shrill, loud ...
( Category:
Historical
October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 1969-11-17 | Author:Theodore H. White [White, Theodore H.]
1See The Making of the President—1964, Chapter 8. 2This writer has, over the past seven years, been repeatedly associated with the Columbia Broadcasting System and independently responsible for several major ...
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Politics & Government
October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-21 | Author:Lincoln, Abraham [Lincoln, Abraham]
To Edward Bates Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 29, 1862. Hon. Attorney General My dear Sir: Few things perplex me more than this question between Gov. Gamble, and the War Department, ...
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Leaders & Notable People
October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1989-10-01 | Author:Abraham Lincoln
To John Mathers Springfield, July 20 1858 Jno. Mathers, Esq. My dear Sir: Your kind and interesting letter of the 19th. was duly received. Your suggestions as to placing one’s ...
( Category:
Americas
October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-22 | Author:Louis P. Masur
11. Lincoln signed forty-eight copies of this authorized edition of the Emancipation Proclamation—special souvenirs to be sold at the Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair of June 1864. Approximately half of ...
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Americas
October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Michael Burlingame
31 “The Signs Look Better” Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July–November 1863) Lincoln’s popularity soared after the victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson. His old friend ...
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Americas
October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1996-11-01 | Author:Fehrenbacher, Don E. & Fehrenbacher, Virginia [Fehrenbacher, Don E.]
AGNES HARRISON MACDONELL English girl who attended a White House reception in February 1863 and wrote home about it to her parents.306 1. Responding to her statement that the people ...
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Americas
October 4,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1996-11-01 | Author:Don E. Fehrenbacher & Virginia Fehrenbacher [Fehrenbacher, Don E.]
AGNES HARRISON MACDONELL English girl who attended a White House reception in February 1863 and wrote home about it to her parents.306 1. Responding to her statement that the people ...
( Category:
Americas
October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Michael Burlingame
13 “A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) In 1860, the radical abolitionist Parker Pillsbury dismissed Lincoln as “the Kentucky clodhopper,” scoffed at his antislavery record, ...
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Americas
October 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-12 | Author:Stella Tillyard [Tillyard, Stella]
PART THREE ‘Are you not delighted with our dear little Sally’s thinking herself with child?’ Caroline to Emily, 14 June 1768. ‘I am very glad you have bought that place ...
( Category:
Europe
October 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Louise J. Wilkinson [Wilkinson, Louise J.]
8 1265 ‘the conflict of Evesham’1 In April 1267, Henry III wrote to the sheriff of Northamptonshire, ordering him to restore the lands confiscated from William de St Philibert, a ...
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Europe
October 4,2017 )
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