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President without a Party by Christopher J. Leahy
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Christopher J. Leahy

Chapter 14 AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY Shortly after midnight on Monday, October 25, 1841, an American merchant brig, the Creole, slipped out of port at Hampton Roads, Virginia, en route to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 26,2020 )
Aaron McDuffie Moore by Blake Hill-Saya
epub |eng | 2020-05-25 | Author:Blake Hill-Saya

15 FOR OUR MUTUAL BENEFIT Forging the Mighty Triumvirate The North Carolinian newspaper of Thursday, December 22, 1898, printed, “This morning, about 3:45 o’clock, fire destroyed a stable belonging to ...
( Category: United States May 26,2020 )
Shortlisted by Hannah Brenner Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Hannah Brenner Johnson

It is significant to note that as impactful as women’s advocacy can be, whether formal or informal, not all of the women profiled in this book were active in promoting ...
( Category: United States May 25,2020 )
Desert Exile (Classics of Asian American Literature) by Yoshiko Uchida & Yoshiko Uchida
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Yoshiko Uchida & Yoshiko Uchida [Uchida, Yoshiko]

Plate in hand, I stand in line, Losing my resolve To hide my tears. I see my mother In the aged woman who comes, And I yield to her My ...
( Category: Asian American Studies May 25,2020 )
Grant's Victory by Bruce L. Brager
epub |eng | 2020-02-03 | Author:Bruce L. Brager

Some sources say that Lincoln had more details on Lee’s losses, and that this may have provoked his comment to William Stoddard about more such losses, which Stoddard remembered as ...
( Category: American Civil War May 22,2020 )
The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Maggie Doherty [Doherty, Maggie]

CHAPTER 11 Mad for the Message ON FEBRUARY 19, 1963, just eight days after Plath’s death, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was published by Norton. In the book, Friedan argued ...
( Category: United States May 22,2020 )
Hunting the Unabomber by Lis Wiehl
epub |eng | 2020-02-28 | Author:Lis Wiehl

Turchie was determined to develop a full understanding of all the elements of the investigation—including the all-important computerized database that held promise for advancing the agents’ work and potentially providing ...
( Category: Law Enforcement May 22,2020 )
Lyndon Johnson's War by Michael H. Hunt
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Michael H. Hunt

4 “THAT BITCH OF A WAR” Lyndon Johnson loved folksy, vivid language. It came to him as readily in formal White House meetings as on the hustings in his native ...
( Category: Vietnam War May 18,2020 )
Tombstone by Tom Clavin
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Tom Clavin

ACT IV THE GUNFIGHT Oriental Saloon (COURTESY OF ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY) Some few of us pioneers are entitled to credit for what we have done. We have been the fore-runners ...
( Category: United States May 9,2020 )
The Essential Edgar Cayce by Mark Thurston & Edgar Cayce
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-07 | Author:Mark Thurston & Edgar Cayce [Thurston, Mark]

EC: Yes, we have the body here, [1120], present in this room. Now, as we find, the general physical forces of the body in many ways appear to be well. ...
( Category: Prophecy May 9,2020 )
Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-The-World Comedy Tour by Richard Zacks
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Richard Zacks [Zacks, Richard]

Neither Clara nor Livy were huge fans of aggressive behavior, although boarding a train in India, finding seats or sleeper berths, loading luggage—all of it required some aggression. “Such rows ...
( Category: Authors May 9,2020 )
The Kosher Capones by Kraus Joe;
epub |eng | | Author:Kraus, Joe; [Неизв.]

III If you look at a map, Maxwell Street is a lot closer to the Loop than it is to Lawndale. Benny Zuckerman, Davey Miller, Julius Anixter, and most of ...
( Category: United States May 8,2020 )
James Monroe by Tim McGrath
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Tim McGrath [McGrath, Tim]

* * * · · · MONROE RETURNED TO Washington from his tour on September 17, 1817, the thirtieth anniversary of the Constitution’s ratification. By this time the Republicans routinely ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 7,2020 )
Damaged Heritage by J. Chester Johnson
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:J. Chester Johnson

6 AFTER FREEDOM SUMMER During the summer of 1964, known among civil rights workers as Freedom Summer, I sat in Quincy House along the Charles River at Harvard University. I ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 6,2020 )
Galileo by Mario Livio
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Mario Livio

The last sentence alluded to the fact that due to the prohibition on discussing Copernicanism, Galileo didn’t feel free to speak his mind. Galileo/Guiducci added that “we should be content ...
( Category: Rome May 6,2020 )

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