United States
epub |eng | | Author:Laurel Holliday

E-K. Daufin * * * E-K. Daufin is a writer who teaches at a university in Alabama. She has had a varied career: newspaper reporter, freelance journalist, part-time maid, bookstore ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:James Thacher

( Category: American Revolution March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-18 | Author:Jacobs, Benjamin [Jacobs, Benjamin]

Chapter XI On Cattle Cars to Auschwitz It was early morning. I had barely fallen asleep when I heard the police shouting, “Get up! We are moving out.” Our freedom ...
( Category: Europe March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Gordon Leidner

The next morning, after being admitted to Lincoln’s office, she continued the narrative: He sat down by his desk, reached out for the petition, wrote across the back, “Release this ...
( Category: American Civil War March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Rappleye

Philadelphia in 1775 was the largest city in America, more than ten times the size of Providence, with wharves that stretched two miles along the shore of the Delaware River. ...
( Category: American Revolution March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Caro

Moses often built structures just because the projects secured him more money and power Developing areas without consulting residents was certainly an expression of Moses’s disinterest in other people’s views, ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:William Wells Brown

CHAPTER I. I was born in Lexington, Ky. The man who stole me as soon as I was born, recorded the births of all the infants which he claimed to ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Gary M. Pomerantz

* * * — Walter Brown got the last word. He presented Cousy with a 1963 steel-gray Cadillac, though he apologized that he couldn’t rip apart the Garden and drive ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Samuel G. Freedman

Carrying his sea bag and a hula outfit he had bought on liberty in Honolulu, Hy Keltz stepped stiff-legged off the three-day sleeper that had carried him from the West ...
( Category: Women in History March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thai Jones

Later, she read Blake and Shelley, and her poetry in the school literary journal was closer to the Victorian taste. She was captain of the debating team and secretary for ...
( Category: Radicalism March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:James R. Mellow

( Category: Authors March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:S. A. An-sky & Polly Zavadivker

FEBRUARY 9 I left for Tarnów. A fatigued soldier from the Baturin Regiment drove me. Along the way he said this: “During the Japanese campaign, the officers were reprimanded for ...
( Category: World War I March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Eckert, Allan W. [Eckert, Allan W.]

[ November 1, 1786 — Wednesday ] A single lantern burned at high wick in the library of the large mansion in Trenton, New Jersey, where two men sat talking ...
( Category: United States March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:ROMESH RATNESAR

Griscom asked Reagan if he had any thoughts on the speeches for his European trip. In Rome, he would make brief remarks before meeting with Pope John Paul II, a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Carl Oglesby

WHATEVER THE CAUSE of my banning at Emory, whether the school president acted on his own instincts or because of pressure from the school’s trustees, and whether or not the ...
( Category: United States March 18,2020 )