United States
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Michael Burlingame

13 “A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) In 1860, the radical abolitionist Parker Pillsbury dismissed Lincoln as “the Kentucky clodhopper,” scoffed at his antislavery record, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax [Wax, Madame Tussaud: A Life in]

10 Vide et Crede! The Lyceum Theatre, London ONE OF PHILIPSTAL’S programmes of entertainment in London was entitled ‘A Magical Deception’. But unfortunately it was not just on stage that ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |ru | 2011-11-07 | Author:Winston Groom

* Military officers in those times were permitted to bring a servant along with them. Since Emory was from a slaveholding family in Maryland, it is highly probable that his ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Emily Brady

People continued growing their profitable weed in Humboldt, of course, and contrary to the Bureau of Land Management director’s promise, the army and National Guard did not return. Gradually, though, ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Abraham Lincoln

LETTER TO HANNAH ARMSTRONG Hannah Armstrong was the wife of Jack Armstrong, leader of the Clary’s Grove boys at New Salem, the man with whom Lincoln had had a famous ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Susan Bordo [Bordo, Susan]

Henry’s desire for Anne is thus premised on what Sartre would later describe as the desire to capture the elusive freedom of another person by “incarnating” it as flesh. But ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Rae Katherine Eighmey [Eighmey, Rae Katherine]

As you’ll see, we know Mrs. Lincoln served sausage at their breakfasts. Menus from Miss Leslie’s cookbook for hearty “Autumn and Winter Breakfasts” provide some suggestions for the other foods ...
( Category: Midwestern March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Michael Burlingame

31 “The Signs Look Better” Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July–November 1863) Lincoln’s popularity soared after the victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson. His old friend ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Don Mann & Ralph Pezzullo [MANN, DON]

Chapter Ten ST-6/Divorce Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. —Virginia Woolf At ST-6, when we were recalled for training or for real-world ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Waldron, Lamar [Waldron, Lamar]

CHAPTER 12 Carlos Marcello and the Hit Men for JFK’s Murder EVEN AS JFK’S plan with Almeida proceeded in the fall of 1963, he and Robert Kennedy looked for a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Goodwin, Doris Kearns [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 24,2014 )