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The age of Jackson by Schlesinger Arthur M. (Arthur Meier) 1917-2007
epub |eng | 1945-03-28 | Author:Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007

"The promulgation of them offends many; the operation of them injures many; and their sincerity is questioned by all." " In Massachusetts the Whigs, as a majority party, felt less ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 29,2019 )
Abraham Lincoln : the war years, 1861-1865 by Sandburg Carl 1878-1967
epub |eng | 2004-03-28 | Author:Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

JAY COOKE— CASH FOR WAR- HARD TIMES AND FLUSH The Union Government was spending easily more than $2,000,000 a day for the war. Chase had reason to say that while ...
( Category: American Civil War March 29,2019 )
Paul Revere and the world he lived in by Forbes Esther
epub |eng | 1999-03-28 | Author:Forbes, Esther

john Hancock's trunk 267 in the salt marsh of East Cambridge. The officer in command was Revere's North Square neighbor of the last year — £ firery and profane,' 'aminable ...
( Category: American Revolution March 29,2019 )
Cold War by unknow
epub |eng | 2001-12-01 | Author:unknow

Inverness, Scotland When he hung up with Nessa, Gorrie glanced at the clock. Though he had told his wife he’d be home by eight, he realized there was little sense ...
( Category: Military March 28,2019 )
The Changing Face of San Antonio by Nelson W. Wolff
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Nelson W. Wolff

FOUR Therapeutic Justice WHEN I BECAME MAYOR in 1991, violent crime was rampant in San Antonio, as in many other American cities. Since 1978 drugs and gang turf wars, both ...
( Category: United States March 27,2019 )
Annette King by John Harvey
epub |eng | 2019-03-24 | Author:John Harvey

Dame-to-be Annette, aged four. King Collection Murchison’s Robinson sisters, Annette (left), Raelene (centre) and Pauline. King Collection Huge supporters and proud parents Olive and Bill Robinson. King Collection Grandparents with ...
( Category: Political Parties March 25,2019 )
American Cipher by Matt Farwell & Michael Ames
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Matt Farwell & Michael Ames

SIXTEEN BOB’S WAR Bob and Jani’s lives were now fully intertwined with the U.S. government’s fiasco in Afghanistan, their son’s fate to be determined by the same convoluted calculus that ...
( Category: Afghan War March 25,2019 )
The Lost Prince by Michael Mewshaw
epub |eng | 2018-11-14 | Author:Michael Mewshaw

12 In June, before I decamped to Florida to cover the Benson murder trial, the Conroys landed in Rome in time for a farewell dinner and the next day helped ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2019 )
Lighter Than Air by Guy Warner
epub |eng | 2016-06-30 | Author:Guy Warner [Warner, Guy]

Beta II & Delta on manoeuvres. A cache of hydrogen cylinders being stacked for the airships taking part in the Army manoeuvres of 1912. (Via Nigel Caley) After the army ...
( Category: World War I March 25,2019 )
Immersed In Red by Mike Shotwell
epub |eng | 2016-11-16 | Author:Mike Shotwell

Later, during their hearings, both my mother and Orville attended rallies and fund raising events for their defense costs. They and other blacklisted writers were influential in subtle ways in ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 25,2019 )
War Flower by Brooke King
epub |eng | | Author:Brooke King

Tin Box Battalion The flag lowered, sinking down to white-gloved hands that were already saturated with sweat from standing in the late afternoon sun. The rope whipped against the pole, ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 25,2019 )
Washington's crossing by Fischer David Hackett 1935-
epub |eng | 2004-03-23 | Author:Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-

The Battle at Princeton g£P> hLI?»- > 77i£ Z)^/z of General Hugh Mercer, a sketch by John Trumbull (1786). The defiant American leader refused British orders to surrender and was ...
( Category: United States March 23,2019 )
Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915 by Harlan Louis R
epub |eng | 1986-03-23 | Author:Harlan, Louis R

274 Booker T. Washington land, the Lumbwa Industrial Mission in Kenya, and industrial institutes in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, as well as an experimental African Training Institute at Colwyn ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 23,2019 )
50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning From Spiritual Giants of the Faith by Warren W. Wiersbe
epub |eng | 2009-03-31 | Author:Warren W. Wiersbe [Wiersbe, Warren W.]

27 F. B. Meyer 1847–1929 When Jack Johnson defeated James Jeffries for the 1911 world heavyweight championship, negotiations were begun to pit Johnson against the British champion, Bombardier Wells. But ...
( Category: Religious March 23,2019 )
The Age of Napoleon by Alistair Horne
epub |eng | 2004-04-26 | Author:Alistair Horne [Horne, Alistair]

As is so frequently the story with autocratic regimes, with the passage of time, corruption set in. At the top, starting from a zero base, all the Bonaparte family amassed ...
( Category: Political March 23,2019 )

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