Historical
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Douglass, Frederick

Chapter 11 Secession and War The cowardly and disgraceful reaction from a courageous and manly assertion of right principles, as described in the foregoing pages, continued surprisingly long after secession ...
( Category: Historical February 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 1992-03-01 | Author:Wallace Stegner [Stegner, Wallace]

The justifications for reform were extensive, for every condition of land and climate, and every successive land law except the Timber Culture Act of 1873 worked against the city mechanic, ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics February 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:Lev Ozerov

Freeze-frames, one after another. Shklovsky waves his hand, walks over to the bookcase and glides along the spines. Like the Buddha, he has sixteen hands, all reaching out to the ...
( Category: Historical February 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-27 | Author:Eycke Strickland [Strickland, Eycke]

( Category: Historical February 7,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

3. Savage Lucy . . . ‘Teeth Like Baseballs, Eyes Like Jellied Fire’ I gave my bag to the boy who scurried up, and told him to bring a quart ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics February 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-09 | Author:Eleanor Herman

CONTEMPORARY POSTMORTEM Henri’s physicians and surgeons conducted an autopsy and announced that they found “a lung and the liver corrupt, a kidney stone and an injury to the brain.” Kidney ...
( Category: Europe February 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant

( Category: Military February 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Weir, Alison

Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 Part III Mary and Elizabeth Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 9 ‘A Merciful Princess' On ...
( Category: Historical February 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-05 | Author:Tracy Borman [Borman, Tracy]

12 ‘Every man here is for himself’ ANNE BOLEYN’S REMAINS, which had been hastily bundled into an old arrow chest, were barely cold by the time that her estranged husband ...
( Category: Historical February 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-18 | Author:Laura Skandera Trombley [Trombley, Laura Skandera]

Mark Twain, Clara Clemens, and Marie Nichols at the piano, 1908 During the early months of 1908 Clara gave several performances in New York, one, as The New York Times ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-03 | Author:Mark Perry [Perry, Mark]

MARK TWAIN MISSED all of this. Through most of November and December and all of January, he was on a reading tour with George Washington Cable—marketed by the two of ...
( Category: Historical February 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Philip McFarland [McFarland, Philip]

Figure 27.1. The Haymarket Riot, May 4, 1886. Pictured across the top are the slain policemen. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. To protest such terms, a general walkout was ...
( Category: Historical February 5,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Graham A. Thomas [Thomas, Graham A.]

When the Spanish surrendered to the buccaneers they found that only thirty of the entire Spanish garrison of 314 troops remained alive, and of these, twenty were wounded. All thirty ...
( Category: Americas February 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Stephen Koch

Friedrich Grimm may have ridden to Düsseldorf on the vom Rath funeral train, but for most of the remainder of 1938 he was busy in Paris, trying to concoct evidence ...
( Category: Ethnic & National February 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-01 | Author:David Clay Large [DAVID CLAY LARGE]

Very truly yours, L. S. McDaniel, President Elated that he had gotten Max a job offer, and convinced that this would gain him Non-Quota Immigrant status and hence rapid admission ...
( Category: Historical February 4,2019 )