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Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen Ambrose
epub |eng | 2017-06-21 | Author:Stephen Ambrose

The following morning Hancock ordered Custer to pursue the fleeing Indians. Delaware scouts found the trail and led the way. The trail led north, but because the Indians had no ...
( Category: Americas June 23,2017 )
Joe Gould's Teeth by Jill Lepore
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-16 | Author:Jill Lepore

When Gould got out of the hospital, his rent, at a place called Maison Gerard, was paid by this mysterious benefactor. He was desperate to discover her identity. He heard ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 22,2017 )
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

Nonsuch Palace, Surrey, commissioned by Henry in 1538, and intended as a proclamation of Tudor wealth and power – a rival, he hoped, to Francis’s Chambord; not a trace remains. ...
( Category: Europe June 22,2017 )
Martin Luther by Lyndal Roper
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Lyndal Roper [Roper, Lyndal]

Someone may laugh at me for explaining the obvious and offering great men such an elementary tidbit of syntax, as if I were teaching boys learning their alphabet. What am ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 22,2017 )
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jonnes Jill
epub |eng | 2003-08-19 | Author:Jonnes, Jill [Jonnes, Jill]

Having emerged from the shadows, Thomas Edison did not retreat again. He now proceeded to use the full force of his monumental fame and prestige to persuade the public and ...
( Category: Engineering June 22,2017 )
30 Days a Black Man by Bill Steigerwald
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Steigerwald

CHAPTER 11 Sneaking Through the Delta And we are nothing more Than a herd of Negroes Driven to the field —FROM “SHARECROPPERS”BY LANGSTON HUGHES Sprigle and Dobbs pushed north on ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Larry Tye

Had he ended on this emotional high point it would have been enough. It also would have had the world speculating—as many did anyway—whether, if JFK was the dead hero ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman
epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2016-12-05 | Author:Tracy Borman

This portrait of Henry VII was commissioned in 1505 for Margaret of Savoy, whom he hoped to marry. It failed to persuade her of the ageing king’s charms. Thought to ...
( Category: Europe June 21,2017 )
New Jersey Folk Revival Music: History & Tradition by Gabriele Michael C
epub |eng | 2016-12-04 | Author:Gabriele, Michael C. [Gabriele, Michael C.]

As for the material she performed on stage, the reviewer lauded her singing of ballads such as “Portland Town” and “Silver Dagger.” Her set list also included songs of the ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Susan Quinn

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A BETTER POLITICIAN THAN HER HUSBAND TO L A HICKOK, STEVENS HOTEL CHICAGO WILL ARRIVE ABOUT 6:40 CHICAGO DAYLIGHT SPECIAL PLANE, WILL NOT NEED A ROOM AS RETURNING ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Six Encounters with Lincoln by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
epub |eng | 2017-02-10 | Author:Elizabeth Brown Pryor

“President Lincoln riding through Richmond, April 4, amid the enthusiastic cheers of the inhabitants,” wood engraving, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, April 22, 1865 “President Lincoln visiting the late residence of ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
epub |eng | | Author:Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Whipple spent the next several weeks searching for the president’s fugitive. He would have started his investigation down by the Portsmouth docks, asking ship captains and dockworkers, merchant friends and ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Pamela Newkirk [Newkirk, Pamela]

EIGHTEEN LEOPOLD’S LOBBY The expedition not only augmented Starr’s already impressive credentials and personal fortune, but also would provide him with a prominent platform for defending Leopold’s rule. On his ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
The Plot to Kill King by William F Pepper Esq
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:William F Pepper,Esq

The Background Mrs. King led off the group of witnesses whose testimony provided evidence about the historical background and events leading up to the assassination. She set the background stating: ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling by Michael Cannell
epub |eng | 2017-04-24 | Author:Michael Cannell [Cannell, Michael]

CHAPTER TWELVE THE DEAD FILES January 1957 In the early morning of January 20, a uniformed police officer drove Commissioner Kennedy in a city-owned Cadillac from his modest Bayside home, ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )

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