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Rad American History A-Z by Kate Schatz & Miriam Klein Stahl
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Kate Schatz & Miriam Klein Stahl

ON FEBRUARY 14, 2018, a teenager armed with an automatic firearm walked onto the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) in Parkland, Florida, and began firing his weapon. ...
( Category: Women in History March 13,2020 )
Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser
epub |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

Chapter Six Losing THE LAST MAJOR SERVICE Hamilton performed for President Washington was drafting his Farewell Address. Washington had asked Madison to prepare a farewell as early as 1792, when ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
The Long Honduran Night by Frank Dana;
epub |eng | 2018-11-04 | Author:Frank, Dana;

Birthday Parties January 25, 2014, two days before Juan Orlando Hernández’s inauguration, was my birthday. It also happened to be the birthday of women’s suffrage in Honduras, celebrated as Honduran ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 12,2020 )
Notorious Nashville by Brian Allison
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Brian Allison

Scene of the crime? The last reliable sighting of Rosa Mangrum took place here at Union Station on Broadway. The building still stands today and is now a hotel. Library ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance by Wayne F. Cooper;
epub |eng | 1987-03-11 | Author:Wayne F. Cooper;

9 The Expatriate Years, 1929–1934: Gingertown and Banana Bottom Despite his underlying reservations, McKay had some good times in Paris with the cast of Blackbirds, with Countee Cullen, and with ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980 by Shirley Craig
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Shirley, Craig [Shirley, Craig]

10 “Big John” Versus “Poppy” “There was a haziness about exactly where he stood politically.” In the three years since John Connally was skipped over by Gerald Ford to be ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 12,2020 )
The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty by Hollingsworth Mary
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Hollingsworth, Mary [Hollingsworth, Mary]

Sebastiano del Piombo, Clement VII, 1526 (Naples, Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte). After Raphael, The Donation of Constantine, early 1520s (Vatican Palace, Stanza di Costantino). The papal claim to secular power ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2020 )
Astoria by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 1835-12-14 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

Chapter 29 RESUMING their course on the following morning, Mr. Hunt and his companions continued on westward through a rugged region of hills and rocks, but diversified in many places ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Geronimo by Mike Leach & Buddy Levy
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Leach & Buddy Levy

GERONIMO’S ADVERSARIES: BRITTON DAVIS, ARMY OFFICER (JUNE 4, 1860–JANUARY 23, 1930) Born at Brownsville, Texas, Davis graduated from West Point in 1881. He joined the 3rd Cavalry and was sent ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Mayflower Lives by Martyn Whittock
epub |eng | 2019-05-18 | Author:Martyn Whittock

Later life, at Duxbury and Kingston In Plymouth the Howlands lived on the north side of Leyden Street, on the four-acre spot granted to the family by the Division of ...
( Category: Great Britain March 12,2020 )
Sala's Gift by Ann Kirschner
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Ann Kirschner

By the fall of 1942, as camps shut down and addresses changed, mail service to and from the Schmelt camps became more erratic. Sara Czarka was assigned to clean the ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Edison and Ford in Florida by Mike Cosden
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Mike Cosden

After reaching their camping site, Henry Ford and Charles Edison found an abandoned boat and paddled into a nearby lake. As they rowed, they noticed several snakes. Ford pulled out ...
( Category: History of Technology March 12,2020 )
Remarkable Women of Stockton by Mary Jo Gohlke
epub |eng | 2019-01-12 | Author:Mary Jo Gohlke

Chapter 2 Julia Weber Stockton’s Own Royalty If Helen Murphy Weber, wife of Stockton founder Charles Weber, were the city’s first lady, then her daughter, comely Julia Weber, could be ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula by Sonny Longtine
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Sonny Longtine

Eileen Ford with a memorial plaque honoring her father, Martin Ford. It was given to her in 1992 by the National Policeman’s Association. Author’s collection. Although only five at the ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
The Lady of Sing Sing by Idanna Pucci
epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Idanna Pucci

Having already secured the support of a former senator, a former governor, and a bishop, Cora was on the hunt for even more illustrious names. Robert Green Ingersoll, known as ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )

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