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epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Megan Kate Nelson

* * * Clark had been back from the Mogollon expedition for two months when a letter arrived in Santa Fe, detailing the discoveries that Joseph Reddeford Walker’s adventurers had ...
( Category: American Civil War February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Craig Fehrman

In Baltimore, a man looked at a drugstore’s display of paperback books—each one priced at fifty cents. That made Senator Truman an upper middlebrow, and he enjoyed his era’s literary ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Tevi Troy

CHAPTER 8 GEORGE H. W. BUSH Darman and Sununu versus All Few presidents can compare to George H. W. Bush when it comes to resume and experience in government. Bush ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-04 | Author:Joseph Plumb Martin [Martin, Joseph Plumb]

Chapter VI. Campaign of 1780 Table of Contents The soldier defending his country's rights, Is griev'd when that country his services slights; But when he remonstrates and finds no relief, ...
( Category: American Revolution February 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-10 | Author:Waugh, Barry [Waugh, Barry]

August 1, 1918 My dearest Mother: When I give you a little outline of my daily life and at the same time tell you that I am now alone in ...
( Category: Letters February 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-28 | Author:Edwin Reischauer

Japanese intellectuals have always drawn a sharp distinction between the early reforming years of the occupation, of which they in general approved, and the occupation’s later years, when a 180-degree ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions January 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Fulsom, Don [Fulsom, Don]

TWELVE WATERGATE: WHAT SECRETS WAS NIXON SEEKING? Early in the 1968 campaign, power-hungry, episodically nutty billionaire Howard Hughes—in a lucid moment and non-nuanced memo—stated his determination to elect a president ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Barton Gellman

Losses were not always permanent for the vice president. Nor were they obvious, because Cheney cloaked them in loyal public support. He stepped aside when Bush felt strongly, swallowing disagreements ...
( Category: United States January 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-10 | Author:David G. Marwell

Meeting in May Our May meeting in Frankfurt came three months after the attorney general had ordered the investigation. Much had happened in that time: two Senate hearings in the ...
( Category: World War II January 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Martin Luther King Jr [King Jr, Martin Luther]

IV Among the forces of white liberalism the church has a special obligation. It is the voice of moral and spiritual authority on earth. Yet no one observing the history ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Pennington

19 Lost Promise THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reporter called Bill Livesey at his Florida home on Sunday, December 19. “The guy from the AP wanted my reaction to Brien Taylor’s shoulder ...
( Category: United States January 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Christoph Irmscher [Irmscher, Christoph]

Some of Max’s identity problems were reflected in the hero of Max’s novel, Venture, a book left unfinished for years after he had first begun working on it in his ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:John Rhodehamel [Rhodehamel, John]

9 “The Destiny of Unborn Millions” AMERICA’S FIRST CITIZEN returned home after an absence of eight and a half years to find his private affairs in disarray. Mount Vernon was ...
( Category: American Revolution January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Stephen Brumwell [Brumwell, Stephen]

* * * Inclined to downplay fears for his own safety, Washington remained alive to the possibility that the British might yet take advantage of the ice to launch further ...
( Category: American Revolution January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Robert Lerner [Lerner, Robert]

CHAPTER 14 Flight ERNST KANTOROWICZ LOST HIS “LEISURE WITH DIGNITY” painfully in 1938. Upon his return from Paris his passport was taken away from him, meaning that he could no ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )