Home > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical
Historical
The Making of a Racist by Charles B. Dew
epub |eng | | Author:Charles B. Dew

Price circular issued by Betts & Gregory, Richmond auctioneers, containing market guidance and showing a range of prices for multiple categories of slave men, women, and children, dated August 2, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 15,2016 )
Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism by Terryl L. Givens & Matthew J. Grow
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Terryl L. Givens & Matthew J. Grow [Givens, Terryl L. & Grow, Matthew J.]

I am Alone!—Alone!—Alone! O Horable!—Yes—Alone—the Punishment—the Hell I always dread—and the one to which I am often doomed. How oft has it been my lot to Spend wearysome days, weeks ...
( Category: United States September 14,2016 )
The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Ji Xianlin

IN THE COWSHED (1) WE WERE ABOUT to be herded into the prison we had built with our own hands. As the novelist Hu Feng said, “There is life to ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2016 )
My First Life by Hugo Chavez
epub |eng | | Author:Hugo Chavez

10 Conspiring and Recruiting Gently flowing water – The Power Within You Sandinista victory in Nicaragua – Marx and Bolívar ‘About-Turn’ – First micro-cell – Winning over cadets Crisis theory ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2016 )
Marina and Lee by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Priscilla Johnson McMillan [McMillan, Priscilla Johnson]

— 22 — The Sanction For Marina, the month of February 1963 was far and away the worst in all her married life. Lee had been hitting her ever since ...
( Category: United States September 5,2016 )
1920 by Eric Burns
epub |eng | 2015-09-04 | Author:Eric Burns

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Closed Door in the White House IT WAS PONZI WHO MADE headlines late in the summer of 1920, but there was a much more important story in ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2016 )
Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors by Alison Light
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Alison Light [Light, Alison]

Sarah was admitted to Netherne on 9 June 1911, her first and only admission. Public asylums like Netherne were Poor Law institutions and it was necessary to be registered by ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2016 )
Roosevelt's Navy by James Tertius De Kay
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:James Tertius De Kay

Over half a century later, in 1973, British investigative reporter Colin Simpson discovered that the Germans had been right. He established that nearly the whole of the Lusitania’s cargo was ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 19,2016 )
Churchill and Company by David Dilks
epub |eng | | Author:David Dilks [Dilks, David]

There were other objections to the proposal, which Eden asked his colleagues to reject.44 The Chiefs of Staff agreed with him, as did the War Cabinet. A happier fate awaited ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2016 )
Jack the Ripper: The Murders, the Mystery, the Myth by Stapleton Victor
epub |eng | | Author:Stapleton, Victor

Montague John Druitt. (Mary Evans) Suspects of the Day – The ‘MacNaughten Memoranda’ Three of the four remaining Ripper suspects of the day are named by police official Sir Melville ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2016 )
Our Family Dreams by Daniel Blake Smith
epub |eng | 2016-06-12 | Author:Daniel Blake Smith

Tusculum, Elijah Fletcher’s Lynchburg home All of these events only strengthened Elijah’s resolve to focus on his more successful and obedient children while cultivating his pastoral retreat at Sweet Briar. ...
( Category: Historical August 14,2016 )
The Problem with Socialism by Thomas DiLorenzo
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas DiLorenzo [DiLorenzo, Thomas]

SOCIALISM’S ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARES The environmental perils of government ownership are even more pronounced under socialism. The collapse of the Soviet empire in the late 1980s and early 1990s provided a ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism August 12,2016 )
The Problem with Me by Han Han
epub |eng | | Author:Han Han

FOR EVERY SELF April 2012 Shortly before the Spring Festival in 2012, Han Han was accused by a number of prominent bloggers of not being the author of the books ...
( Category: Asian August 10,2016 )
Louisa by Louisa Thomas
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Louisa Thomas

2 IT WAS HER CAMPAIGN for his presidency—and in some ways, the campaign really was hers more than it was his. Her entertainments made “our Congress less dependent on the ...
( Category: United States August 9,2016 )
The First Circumnavigators by Harry Kelsey
epub |eng | 2016-08-06 | Author:Harry Kelsey

FIVE Following the Leader Once the return route was established by Father Urdaneta, it was no longer necessary for mariners and explorers to risk the treacherous seas and storms of ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal August 7,2016 )

First Prev [522] [523] [524] [525] 526 [527] [528] [529] [530] [531] [532] Next Last