United States
epub |eng | 2018-06-20 | Author:Stephen W. Sears, Douglas Southall Freeman

3 L ONGSTREET T RIES I NDEPENDENT C OMMAND Early in January General Lee had thought it probable that if Burnside went into winter quarters on the Rappahannock, part of ...
( Category: American Civil War March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.;

The Emancipation Proclamation did not, however, bring full freedom to the Negro, for although he enjoyed certain political and social opportunities during the Reconstruction, the Negro soon discovered that the ...
( Category: Social Issues March 16,2020 )
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 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julia Bricklin

Not everyone believed Campbell’s version of what happened that evening. On Tuesday, January 12—two days after the alleged attempt on Polly Pry’s life—the Rocky Mountain News published its assessment of ...
( Category: Women in History March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Unknown

Creepy, crawly animals that walk along the beach and pinch? Don’t worry, Little Hoo Just give them space and they will not bother you. What are you afraid of Little ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Unknown

“I recommend you to take one way and stick to it,” Morris replied. “Ah! but it isn’t easy to choose. My imagination is never quiet, never satisfied. It makes me ...
( Category: Adventure March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-20 | Author:Craig Pittman

* * * When Maehr was sitting on the developers’ side of the table, pushing for a permit for The Habitat, there was a biologist from the US Fish and ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers 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 ...
( Category: 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 ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-25 | Author:Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation As foreshadowing the course I later, as President, followed in this matter, I give extracts from one of my letters to the Commission, and from my second (and last) ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-13 | Author:Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass

C HAPTER II My master’s family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld. They lived in one house, upon the home ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Demaree Inglese

Brady and I sat under the overhang on the back porch of the Correctional Center while we ate. Lunch consisted of an odd selection of items the deputies had salvaged ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Taylor, Franklin [Taylor, Franklin]

At only forty-three years of age, he was nevertheless well prepared for the job. He was well-read and well-traveled. He was an avid reader and sometimes would read up to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:The Editors of LIFE

RALPH CRANE/LIFE The Springfield House At the corner of Eighth and Jackson streets in downtown Springfield stood the one and only house Abraham Lincoln would ever own. “The little home ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Poyo, Gerald E.;

Figure 5. José Martí (standing, center) with cigar workers at the Martínez Ybor cigar factory in Ybor City, Florida, July 1892. José D. Poyo is second from Martí’s right, and ...
( Category: United States March 15,2020 )