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Martha Jefferson by William G. Hyland Jr
epub |eng | 2015-02-05 | Author:William G. Hyland Jr.

Twelve The Governor’s Palace Williamsburg could really be called a village rather than a town.1 — Philip Mazzei, neighbor of Thomas Jefferson Before the Revolutionary War formally started, Thomas Jefferson ...
( Category: World May 30,2018 )
The Shadow Emperor by Alan Strauss-Schom
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Strauss-Schom

25 A CHILD OF FRANCE “The Map of Europe has to be redrawn. On the Continent there are only two great powers, France and Russia. Allied with England, who rules ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 29,2018 )
The Wind in My Hair by Masih Alinejad
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Masih Alinejad

At the end of New Year break, on the fourteenth day, to be exact, I headed to Majlis. I still had a day pass and as usual presented my name ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 29,2018 )
Unbeaten by Mike Stanton
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Stanton

10 The Lion and the Lamb On a cool september night in 1952, a car made its way north on a highway in Connecticut. It was well past midnight, but ...
( Category: Biographies May 29,2018 )
The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold by Joyce Lee Malcolm
epub |eng | | Author:Joyce Lee Malcolm

SEVENTEEN Defending New York, Again “He was dark-skinned, with black hair, and middling height; there wasn’t any waste timber in him; he was our fighting general, and a bloody fellow ...
( Category: Americas May 29,2018 )
YOUNG J. EDGAR: Hoover and the Red Scare, 1919-1920 by Kenneth D. Ackerman
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Kenneth D. Ackerman

* * * Edgar watched in silence, sitting at the government table and whispering occasionally to the other lawyers, as Kelleher, his best bureau chief and a man who knew ...
( Category: Historical May 28,2018 )
John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy by Luke Mayville
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-28 | Author:Luke Mayville

WEALTH AND DISTINCTION IN AMERICA John Adams shared with Adam Smith the view that human beings are universally moved by “the passion for distinction,” a desire “to be observed, considered, ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 28,2018 )
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Krist
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Gary Krist

But what really drew the multitudes to her revivals—at least at this stage in her ministry—were the astounding reports of Sister’s faith healing. The evangelist would later try to downplay ...
( Category: Americas May 27,2018 )
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds by Davis Natalie Zemon
epub |eng | 2007-03-05 | Author:Davis, Natalie Zemon [Davis, Natalie Zemon]

It is He who sent down upon thee the Book, wherein are verses clear that are the Essence of the Book, and others ambiguous. As for those in whose hearts ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers May 27,2018 )
A Hero for High Times by Ian Marchant
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Marchant

Imagine what else future archaeologists might dig up (or naturalists; even at twelve, Richard’s notebook was so meticulous that he could not just summon up the memory, but the date ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides May 25,2018 )
Lady Frances by Joan B Huffman
epub |eng | 2018-05-24 | Author:Joan B Huffman

* * * 1 The Church of Scotland is the National Church north of the Border, but the British monarch is not its head, though she or her representative, the ...
( Category: Women's Studies May 24,2018 )
Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington
mobi, pdf |eng | 1945-05-15 | Author:Booker T Washington

Chapter XI. Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them A little later in the history of the school we had a visit from General J.F.B. Marshall, the Treasurer ...
( Category: Ethnic & National May 24,2018 )
Facts and Fears by James R. Clapper & Trey Brown
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:James R. Clapper & Trey Brown

CHAPTER EIGHT Snowden The same week that DOD announced it would not furlough NIP-funded employees, an IT administrator on contract at the large, and very important, NSA facility in Hawaii ...
( Category: Americas May 23,2018 )
The First Tycoon by T. J. Stiles
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:T. J. Stiles [Stiles, T. J.]

MANY MYSTERIES SURROUND the Harlem corner. How much stock did Vanderbilt really keep in the end? How much did he make? Who were his collaborators? Perhaps most important, who were ...
( Category: Historical May 23,2018 )
The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812 by George C. Daughan
mobi |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:George C. Daughan

Captain David Porter (COURTESY OF THE NAVAL ACADEMY MUSEUM) The USS Essex (COURTESY OF THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM) David Glasgow Farragut at age thirty-eight (COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY) ...
( Category: Military May 23,2018 )

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