American Revolution
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Willard Sterne Randall [Willard Sterne Randall]
If pride of character be of worth at any time, it is when it disarms the efforts of malice. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1781 On the last day of May 1781, shortly ...
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March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Phyllis Lee Levin
NINETEEN Enough of Public and Private Anxiety As silently as she could, on Wednesday night, April 26, 1798, Abigail slipped into the New Theatre on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Avoiding ...
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American Revolution
March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas S. Kidd
Whitefield longed to return to America, but following up his work in Scotland seemed more pressing. God had wrought a great renewal in the wake of his visit; exuberant Scottish ...
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American Revolution
March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:James Thacher
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American Revolution
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. ...
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American Revolution
March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein
Fig. 14b. Henry Clay of Kentucky, portrait accompanying the 1852 obituary address. The statesmanlike pose belies his reputation as a gambler. Fig. 14a. John Randolph of Roanoke, from Henry Adams’s ...
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American Revolution
March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein
13. Excerpt from Jackson’s 1816 letter to John Coffee, wherein Jackson charges his erstwhile friend, Gen. William Carroll, with “wanton wickedness and depravity of heart.” Courtesy the Tennessee Historical Society ...
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U.S. Presidents
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Thomas Fleming
THE BATTLES of Springfield and Connecticut Farms reminded many in the American army of the fighting that had convulsed Massachusetts in April 1775. The rush of militia to the battle ...
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American Revolution
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:James Burke
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Samuel Chase SAMUEL CHASE (MD) was thirty-five. And either a “universally despised…foul-mouthed rabble-rouser” or a man of “energetic eloquence.” On the day of the Declaration vote this lawyer ...
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American Revolution
March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Ferling
See notes on Chapter 6 PART THREE FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN 7 WASHINGTON AND THE POLITICS OF INTRIGUE: TO THE END OF THE WAR Yorktown was the ...
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U.S. Presidents
March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Brent Taylor [Dr. Brent Taylor]
Chapter 5 ALEXANDER HAMILTON Executing The Vision THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT of the United States shoots and kills the former Secretary of the Treasury. While this may sound like the ...
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U.S. Presidents
March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser
____________________ ADAMS WAS AHEAD of his time. The country reacted to the prospective collapse of its political arrangements by making one more effort to prop them up. It was the ...
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American Revolution
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Benjamin Franklin
* * * AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA (1773) A prolific political journalist, Franklin generally considered his political writings ephemeral. When asked for a gathering of such pieces ...
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American Revolution
March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-04 | Author:Jefferson, Thomas;
Mr. Adams accordingly executed 1000 bonds, for 1000 florins each, and deposited them in the hands of our bankers, with instructions, however, not to issue them until Congress should ratify ...
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U.S. Presidents
March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Boeck
TWENTY Upon the conclusion of the war, Sholokhov came under intense pressure to deliver the novel he had promised to Stalin. He boasted to journalists in Moscow in September 1945 ...
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U.S. Presidents
March 4,2020 )
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