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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Frederick Douglass

STUDY GUIDE Chapter 9 47. Douglass speaks of being hungry for the first time when he returned to work under Master Thomas. Have you ever felt really hungry? Imagine feeling ...
( Category: American Civil War July 5,2020 )
Rich People Behaving Badly by Dick Kreck
epub |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Dick Kreck

How all the principals came together is a story in itself. Dines, who made his fortune as an oilman, popped up in Hollywood in 1923, eager to try his hand ...
( Category: United States July 5,2020 )
Katharine and R. J. Reynolds by Michele Gillespie
epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Michele Gillespie

It was in this changing climate that R.J.R. introduced his Camel cigarette in 1913, one of four new brands he was test-marketing at a time when cigarette smokers were still ...
( Category: Business July 5,2020 )
Alexander II by Edvard Radzinsky;
epub |eng | 2005-07-14 | Author:Edvard Radzinsky;

Dostoevsky published The Devils in 1873, when he had returned to Russia. In explaining the novel, Dostoevsky wrote that The Devils was not specifically about the Nechaev case, but much ...
( Category: United States July 5,2020 )
Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story by C. David Heymann
epub |eng | 2009-08-03 | Author:C. David Heymann [Heymann, C. David]

In January 1966, Washington attorney Clark Clifford, former chairman of President John F. Kennedy’s foreign intelligence advisory committee and then an advisor to President Johnson, received a telephone call from ...
( Category: Rich & Famous July 5,2020 )
Big Fellow, Long Fellow by T. Ryle Dwyer
epub |eng | | Author:T. Ryle Dwyer [Dwyer, T. Ryle]

‘At first sight Mr Collins is decidedly disappointing,’ one reporter noted. ‘He does not look a bit like a mystery man. And the stories we used to hear about him! ...
( Category: United States July 5,2020 )
The Private Journal of William Reynolds: United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by William Reynolds
epub |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:William Reynolds [Reynolds, William]

[CHAPTER 13: PORTENTS] [Returning from another exhausting tour of boat duty, we] saw a Ship at anchor close to Rock Island. First thought it must be Captain Belcher—then the Vincennes—but ...
( Category: Women in History July 5,2020 )
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption and the Soul of Surfing by Chas Smith
epub |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Chas Smith [Smith, Chas]

13 Girls, We Run This Motherfucker. Or, a Wander and an Explanation. I drive past Ted’s into the Chevron. I need a pack of Parliament Lights to clear the fuzz ...
( Category: Surfing July 5,2020 )
A Quaker Officer in the Civil War by Justin Carisio
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Justin Carisio

( Category: American Civil War July 5,2020 )
All the Horrors of War by Bernice Lerner
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Bernice Lerner

Outdoor showers at Bergen-Belsen. Any sense of modesty was long gone. © Imperial War Museum (BU 4237). *** The 11 Armoured Division left Belsen to do battle with the remaining ...
( Category: Women in History July 4,2020 )
William Henry Harrison by Gail Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Gail Collins

6 The First Campaign Andrew Jackson’s presidency had been so strong that it had created two political parties—Jackson’s Democrats and the Whigs, whose unifying principle was simply opposition to Old ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 4,2020 )
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Maxine Hong Kingston [Kingston, Maxine Hong]

Alaska China Men The China Man also went to Alaska to strike-it-rich in gold mining. At the top of the world, people wrote in their diaries for entertainment; they recorded ...
( Category: American Revolution July 4,2020 )
Happiness Is Not My Companion by David M. Jordan
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:David M. Jordan

( Category: American Civil War July 4,2020 )
Crazy Horse- The Strange Man of the Oglalas (3rd Ed) by Mari Sandoz
epub |eng | 2008-03-02 | Author:Mari Sandoz [Sandoz, Mari]

Soon there was news that another trader's son had come to live among them. It was young John Richard, the one they called Lean Elk. He was with Red Cloud, ...
( Category: Native American Studies July 4,2020 )
Roman's Journey by Roman Halter
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Roman Halter [Halter, Roman]

By the beginning of March, we had gotten the machines working again and the factory was back in action. Among the new SS, there was one sadistic woman officer who ...
( Category: American Revolution July 4,2020 )

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