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Mystic Sails, Texas Trails: Captain Grimes, Shanghai Pierce, Range Wars, and Raising Texas by Robert Davant; Mickey Herskowitz
pdf |en | | Author: Robert Davant; Mickey Herskowitz

( Category: United States September 6,2023 )
The Great Dissenter by Peter S. Canellos
mobi, epub |eng | 2021-06-08 | Author:Peter S. Canellos

* * * After such epic thunder—and epic flattery, in Choate’s tribute to “venerable” Justice Field, whose tenure stretched back to the Civil War—the court’s decision came surprisingly quickly, just ...
( Category: United States April 16,2023 )
Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard by Zenas Leonard Milo Milton Quaife
epub |eng | 2021-09-09 | Author:Zenas Leonard, Milo Milton Quaife [Zenas Leonard, Milo Milton Quaife]

We passed one night with these Indians, during which time they informed us of an accessible passage over the mountain. In the morning we resumed our journey, hiring two of ...
( Category: United States March 1,2023 )
Gender and the American Presidency by unknow
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:unknow

7 Olympia Snowe: Seeking a Sensible Center “Essential to the success and stability of any government is the equal voice and participation of women.” —Olympia J. Snowe1 During the early ...
( Category: United States January 29,2023 )
Roswell: The History of America’s Most Famous UFO Incident by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

Even Johnson’s original photos have never been in Roswell. Copies of his photos are on display at the UFO Museum in Roswell, but the originals were sold by the Fort ...
( Category: United States January 12,2023 )
A History of Treason by unknow
epub |eng | | Author:unknow

Part III TOWARDS A MODERN TREASON Address to the Nation on ‘the calamitous situation of our country’, published in July 1793 by the London Corresponding Society, and calling for parliamentary ...
( Category: United States January 1,2023 )
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
epub |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men. Job ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism October 14,2020 )
The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance by David V. Herlihy
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:David V. Herlihy [Herlihy, David V.]

II. The Search 10. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO October 12, 1894 "FRANK LENZ IS LOST," blared the Evening News Review, stunning the residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, a prosperous pottery center ...
( Category: Cycling October 1,2020 )
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher by Max Allan Collins
epub |eng | 2020-06-22 | Author:Max Allan Collins

AFTER TWO YEARS in the federal service, Ness’s interest began to wane. The work still offered challenges and affirmation—Ness’s scrapbook bulged with newspaper clippings and letters of praise and thanks, ...
( Category: Law Enforcement August 6,2020 )
The Enigma of Isaac Babel by Freidin Gregory
epub |eng | 2011-07-28 | Author:Freidin, Gregory.

. . . everything resumed movement: the coachmen loosened the reins, lowered their long whips; the horses, animated, shook their harness chains, tossed foam around them, and the hindquarters and ...
( Category: Russian August 6,2020 )
Looking for Miss America by Margot Mifflin
epub |eng | 2020-05-21 | Author:Margot Mifflin

EVEN AS ITS STAR WAS dimming in the 1970s, the pageant was progressing, quietly, in a few ways. During her 1972 reign, Laurel Lea Schaefer became a spokesperson for families ...
( Category: Women in History August 6,2020 )
Renegade by Richard Wolffe
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Richard Wolffe [Wolffe, Richard]

Trinity was the place where Barack married Michelle and they baptized their daughters. But its role in Obama’s religious and political life was vague: a presence, but not a pivotal ...
( Category: Elections August 6,2020 )
Desk 88 by Sherrod Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Sherrod Brown

* * * WEALTHY BUSINESS INTERESTS dominated southern politics more than in any region of the country. In 1895 a Massachusetts company opened a factory in Alabama to escape strikes ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 6,2020 )
Nasser by Saïd K. Aburish
epub |eng | | Author:Saïd K. Aburish

7 Search for an Honorable Exit Gamal Abdel Nasser, astute, instinctive, and with a rare natural ability to sense and judge his surroundings, was probably the only one among the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 6,2020 )
Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution by Mark Puls
epub |eng | 2008-02-05 | Author:Mark Puls [Puls, Mark]

American prospects for the war did not brighten with the spring of 1780. On May 12 in Charleston, South Carolina, British general Henry Clinton forced the surrender of General Lincoln, ...
( Category: American Revolution August 6,2020 )

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