Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-24 | Author:Suetonius & Robert Graves

Divus Claudius 1. When, three months after her marriage to Augustus, Livia gave birth to Decimus (later Nero) Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, people suspected that Augustus, not her ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Peter Firstbrook

By 1926, twenty-two thousand Africans in the protectorate were working in domestic service—about one in every seven gainfully employed men.22 In an attempt to monitor this sector, the colonial authorities ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Walter R. Borneman

he following afternoon, May 13, 1846, a congressional delegation called on the president and presented him with the act declaring war against Mexico. Polk read it in the presence of ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Margaret Macmillan; Richard Holbrooke; Casey Hampton

1. Woodrow Wilson’s triumphal arrival in Paris before the start of the Peace Conference. His promise to establish a League of Nations to end war and to allow self-determination for ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:King Abdullah II; King Abdullah

As important as negotiating trade agreements, reforming our educational system, boosting our domestic industry, and reducing our energy dependence have been in putting Jordan on the path of sustainable economic ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

CHAPTER SEVEN In Power When James Madison first arrived in Washington in the spring of 1801, it was nowhere. The federal government had moved to its latest site in the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2007-05-15 | Author:Jean Edward Smith

NINETEEN ON THE BRINK What America does or fails to do in the next few years has a far greater bearing and influence on the history of the whole human ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Amity Shlaes

Eleven: The Siege and the Spruce Washington, D.C. WHAT JUMPED OUT WAS the number. It was $1,841,759,316.80, the total income tax revenues for the fiscal year that had ended in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Candice Millard

PART FOUR TORTURED FOR THE REPUBLIC • CHAPTER 16 • NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, that the characters of men ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Jonathan Steinberg

On 20 April Prince Karl Anton and Prince Leopold let Madrid know that they were no longer interested. On 13 May Bismarck wrote to Delbrück to express his rage and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Christopher P. Andersen

Photographic Insert Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Kenyan Barack Obama Sr. abandoned his wife and son before the boy's first birthday, leaving Barry to be raised by his mother, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jon Meacham

CHAPTER 22 HE APPEARED TO FEEL AS A FATHER “UNCLE’S HEALTH IS as usual,” Emily wrote her mother in the spring of 1833. He was, she said, “often complaining.… He ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Charles Lachman

I have read the statement published in the Buffalo Telegram [sic] of the date of _____, concerning myself and Mr. Cleveland, a statement which is largely false and malicious. Shortly ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-15 | Author:Martin Gilbert

Note on Sources The material in this lecture is taken from my book Churchill: A Life, as well as from the six volumes of the Churchill biography, Winston S. Churchill, ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:A. Scott Berg

13 ISAIAH The Spirit of the Lord God is vpon me, because the Lord hath anointed me, to preach good tidings vnto the meek, hee hath sent me to binde ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )