Historical
epub, azw3, mobi | | 2012-06-12 | Author:James Gleick [Gleick, James]

One flash of inspiration had not brought Newton here. The path to universal gravitation had led through a sequence of claims, each stranger than the last. A force draws bodies ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Burns, Jennifer [Burns, Jennifer]

CHAPT ER EIGHT Love Is Exception Making $by the middle of the 1960s Rand’s popularity among young conservatives, her open support of Goldwater, and the continued appeal of her books ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-18 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

Cuba and the Cold War boiled over in April, when the Kennedy Administration moved beyond soft measures to direct action. From April 17-20, 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles landed on the ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Martin Meredith [Meredith, Martin]

The elimination of black spots began in earnest in the 1960s. Whole communities were uprooted and forced to leave their homes. Many were dumped in areas often unsuitable for cultivation, ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Taylor Branch

“A POST-ELECTION silence settled today on the LBJ ranch,” reported the New York Times on November 10. In seclusion, the President groaned, “I don’t think I lost that election. I ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM]

Behind the shack, in the staff cabin, moods ranged from catatonia to heartbreak to estrangement. Muggsy O’Leary crouched apart in a window seat on the port side, staring down at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1790-01-01 | Author:Benjamin Franklin [Franklin, Benjamin]

Chief Events in Franklin's Life * Ending, as it does, with the year 1757, the autobiography leaves important facts un-recorded. It has seemed advisable, therefore, to detail the chief events ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1947-12-31 | Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower [Eisenhower, Dwight D.]

Chapter 14 D-DAY AND LODGMENT THE FIRST REPORT CAME FROM THE AIRBORNE units I had visited only a few hours earlier and was most encouraging in tone. As the morning ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Eric Foner [Foner, Eric]

7 “Forever Free”: The Coming of Emancipation EVEN AS THE ARMY of General George B. McClellan embarked on the Peninsular campaign, a military commander with a very different political outlook ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Charles Bracelen Flood [Flood, Charles Bracelen]

During the time that Sherman was conducting what became known as the Meridian Campaign, Grant wrote a brief letter to Julia. In it he said, “It now looks as if ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edward Steers Jr. [Steers, Edward Jr.]

Left, Samuel Cox Sr. Booth and Herold stopped at Cox’s plantation home, Rich Hill, around midnight on April 15, 1865. Cox saw to their safe hiding in a pine thicket ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-13 | Author:Kitty Kelley [Kelley, Kitty]

CHAPTER NINETEEN George Herbert Walker Bush wanted the White House more than anything else in the world. “I mean, like, hasn’t, uh, everybody dreamed about becoming President someday?” he asked ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Alan Brinkley [Brinkley, Alan]

At the same time that Luce was immersed in the Willkie campaign, he was also working quietly to persuade Roosevelt to take a more aggressive stance toward the war. The ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-05 | Author:Buddy Levy [Levy, Buddy]

This portrait highlights Crockett’s high cheekbones, which he described as “Red Rosy Cheeks that I have carried so many years.” (David Crockett. Watercolor drawing by James Hamilton Shegogue, 1831. Smithsonian ...
( Category: Religious March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Mariatu Kamara [Kamara, Mariatu]

When the skit was over, Mariatu and Victor approached me. “So you finally came out,” Victor said with a smile, punching me gently on the shoulder. “I just wanted to ...
( Category: Canadian March 26,2014 )