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Conflagration by John A. Buehrens
epub |eng | | Author:John A. Buehrens

Rendition and Insurrection In which Boston Transcendentalists try to stop “The Rendition of Anthony Burns,” radicalize the antislavery movement, and help form the “Secret Six” behind John Brown’s plan for ...
( Category: Social Activists April 4,2020 )
Philosophy, Pussycats, and Porn by Stoya
epub |eng | 2018-08-10 | Author:Stoya [Stoya]

Road-Tripping With Stoya March 1, 2018 (Originally published in Hustler.) Photographer Steve Prue and I have a professional relationship that has yielded many spreads for brand-name girlie mags, a number ...
( Category: Pornography April 1,2020 )
Dorothy Day by John Loughery & Blythe Randolph
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:John Loughery & Blythe Randolph

* * * As the war drew into its final year, Dorothy did her best to reawaken her old energy and balance. She could travel now freed of guilt about ...
( Category: Social Activists March 30,2020 )
I Write What I Like by Steve Biko
epub |eng | 1978-03-14 | Author:Steve Biko [Biko, Steve]

16 “The Righteousness of our Strength” If, as has been indicated in the introduction to chapter 13, the Black Consciousness Movement is implacably against the Afrikaner’s “Divide and Rule” policy ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 28,2020 )
Luigi Galleani by Antonio Senta
epub |eng | 2019-08-29 | Author:Antonio Senta

Chapter XXI: La salute è in voi! Within this bitter class conflict, the central theme of Cronaca Sovversiva was the need to improve strategies for action, with the awareness that ...
( Category: Anarchism March 25,2020 )
Breaking the Ocean by Annahid Dashtgard
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Annahid Dashtgard

Nine Protest, Rinse, Repeat After surviving the threat of Y2K as one millennium ticked over to the next, I relocated to Vancouver for a couple of months to help distribute ...
( Category: Political March 24,2020 )
Body Counts by Sean Strub
epub |eng | | Author:Sean Strub

CHAPTER 15 Unexpected Expire I lost several close friends between 1987 and 1989, but 1988 was particularly difficult, beginning with the drawn-out agonizing death of Bobby Barrios in January. Bobby ...
( Category: Pathology March 21,2020 )
Now I Know Who My Comrades Are by Emily Parker
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Parker

“PEOPLE HAVE TO SEARCH FOR THEIR OWN VOICE BECAUSE THEY NEVER HAD ONE” Reinaldo and I arrived at the Malecón. It was growing dark, and we sat on the wall ...
( Category: Social Media March 21,2020 )
FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & My Bondage and My Freedom (2 Memoirs in One Edition) by Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:Frederick Douglass [Douglass, Frederick]

CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s Table of Contents THE VILLAGE—ITS INHABITANTS—THEIR OCCUPATION AND LOW PROPENSITIES CAPTAN(sic) THOMAS AULD—HIS CHARACTER—HIS SECOND WIFE, ROWENA—WELL MATCHED—SUFFERINGS FROM HUNGER—OBLIGED TO TAKE FOOD—MODE OF ...
( Category: American Civil War March 21,2020 )
A Wild and Precious Life by Edie Windsor
epub |eng | | Author:Edie Windsor

* * * I didn’t ask her about Robert. She’d already apologized profusely for her proposal a number of times, but I didn’t press for any details about him. I ...
( Category: LGBT March 20,2020 )
Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty by Kate Hennessy
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Hennessy

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Tamar could barely tear herself away from her garden—the marigolds, zinnias, and cosmos were in bloom—when she, Dorothy, and the eight children headed up to Vermont on a ...
( Category: Popes & the Vatican March 20,2020 )
Believing in Magic by Cookie Johnson & Denene Millner
epub |eng | | Author:Cookie Johnson & Denene Millner

• There’s No Place like Home • I was born in Alabama, yes, but I spent my formative years in Detroit, where my family moved as part of the Great ...
( Category: Basketball March 20,2020 )
The City of Detroit, 1701 -1922, Volume 2 by Clarence Monroe Burton
epub |eng | 2017-11-08 | Author:Clarence Monroe Burton [Burton, Clarence Monroe]

CHAPTER XXVI. THE RAILROAD ERA The Detroit & Pontiac Railroad, with its successors and extensions, passed through pretty much every range of experience that has fallen to the lot of ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 20,2020 )
Surviving The Dragon by Arjia Rinpoche
epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Arjia Rinpoche [Arjia Rinpoche]

Not all of my Chinese friends had hidden agendas. Because Zhang Xueyi was a doctor, we called him Zhang Menpa (menpa meaning “doctor” in Tibetan). Zhang Menpa was a man ...
( Category: Chinese March 19,2020 )
Free Thinker by Kimberly A. Hamlin
epub |eng | 2020-02-06 | Author:Kimberly A. Hamlin

DESPITE THE MISGIVINGS of NAWSA headquarters that the scope of the parade might be too militant or too ambitious, Paul, Gardener, and their small team had organized the biggest and ...
( Category: Women in History March 19,2020 )

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