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Warriors, Saints, and Scoundrels: Brief Portraits of Real People Who Shaped Wisconsin by Edmonds Michael & Snyder Samantha
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Edmonds, Michael & Snyder, Samantha [Edmonds, Michael]

Learn More: Louisa Johnson Clay, The Spirit Dominant: A Life of Mary Hayes-Chynoweth (San Jose, CA: Mercury Herald Company, 1914); “The Late Mrs. Mary Hayes-Chynoweth,” San Jose Mercury , July ...
( Category: Americas April 8,2018 )
German Soldiers in the Great War by Bernd Ulrich
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Bernd Ulrich

‘The Yoke of War’24 From the beginning of the war, letters from the field (Feldpostbriefe) were used as a medium to air grievances. These letters were addressed to relatives, but ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
Russia by Abraham Ascher
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Abraham Ascher

8 THE SOVIET UNION UNDER LENIN AND STALIN Rarely in the history of any country has one man cast so long a shadow as V. I. Lenin has over Russia. ...
( Category: Russia April 8,2018 )
New York 1776 by David Smith
epub |eng | | Author:David Smith

In Smallwood’s absence, Major Mordecai Gist led the Marylanders at Long Island and also stepped in after Smallwood was injured at White Plains. One of his sons, States Rights (brother ...
( Category: Americas April 8,2018 )
Baldwin's Harlem by Herb Boyd
epub |eng | 2008-04-08 | Author:Herb Boyd

For Baldwin and Mead, there were moments when they vehemently disagreed about Christians and Jews. Baldwin had made the point, as he often did, that the Jews seldom owned the ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 8,2018 )
A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York by King Greg
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:King, Greg [King, Greg]

The Mills mansion along the Hudson, entrance facade. White’s new building dominated a tranquil stretch of park, its sloping lawns dotted with classical statuary and banks of trees that screened ...
( Category: Americas April 8,2018 )
Felt by Mark Felt
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Felt

FOURTEEN “HOOVER IS DEAD” TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1972, began like any other day. I was up at 5:45 A.M. and ate breakfast while scanning Washington Post headlines so that I ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
The King Who Had To Go by Phillips Adrian;
epub |eng | 2016-04-08 | Author:Phillips, Adrian; [Adrian Phillips]

NOTES 1. BBK G/6/23, Duke of Windsor draft memoirs, dated 15 June 1949 2. Chamberlain diary, 2 December 3. NA CAB 301/101, Col. Casten (?) report, 27 November 4. BBK ...
( Category: Europe April 8,2018 )
Julius Caesar by T.P. Wiseman
epub |eng | | Author:T.P. Wiseman

7 Disasters Caesar is convinced he cannot be safe in Rome if he leaves his army. Marcus Caelius Rufus, Roman senator, writing to Cicero in 51 BC77 In August 54 ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
Farther Than Any Man by Martin Dugard
epub |eng | 2001-04-08 | Author:Martin Dugard

CHAPTER 12 Ice Cook was forty-three when his second circumnavigation got under way aboard Resolution. In almost every way, he was still the eager skipper who’d led Endeavour to sea ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 8,2018 )
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (Simon & Schuster America Collection) by Merry Robert W
epub |eng | 2009-10-14 | Author:Merry, Robert W. [Merry, Robert W.]

THOUGH STUNG BY the defeat, the president had reason to celebrate the congressional session just ended. Seldom in American history up to that time had any president dominated a congressional ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
New York City Gangland (Images of America) by Arthur Nash
mobi |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Arthur Nash [Nash, Arthur]

For virtually the first time since the 1940s, snugly knotted bed sheets recovered from the Half Moon Hotel room of Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, razzed posthumously by newspapermen as “The ...
( Category: Americas April 8,2018 )
Teddy Roosevelt in California: The Whistle Stop Tour That Changed America by Epting Chris
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Epting, Chris [Epting, Chris]

Another of the splashy front-page accounts of Roosevelt’s adventure. The Chronicle continued its intense reporting. This piece ran in May 1903: “Roosevelt Pitches His Camp Near Bleak Sentinel Dome in ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 7,2018 )
The Good Governor by Matthew R. Walsh
epub |eng | 2017-05-22 | Author:Matthew R. Walsh

Gateway Opportunity Center sponsors and Tai Dam refugees, Des Moines, Iowa, 1975. Director Arzania Williams (pictured smoking) believed the state favored Asian refugees. He was quoted in the Washington Post, ...
( Category: Americas April 7,2018 )
Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life by Jeff Wilser
epub |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Jeff Wilser

It gets worse. Ever the philosopher, Jefferson ponders: The circumstance of superior beauty, is thought worthy attention in the propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals; why not ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )

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