United States
epub |eng | 2019-11-03 | Author:Unknown

THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT “T hat was a terrible affair!” said a hen, and in a quarter of the town, too, where it had not taken place. “That ...
( Category: Adventure March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein

Fig. 14b. Henry Clay of Kentucky, portrait accompanying the 1852 obituary address. The statesmanlike pose belies his reputation as a gambler. Fig. 14a. John Randolph of Roanoke, from Henry Adams’s ...
( Category: American Revolution March 18,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-04-02 | Author:David Margolick [Margolick, David]

As catastrophic as his brother’s death was for Kennedy, it liberated him still more. Because he’d experienced life at its most random and cruel and irrational, because he feared he ...
( Category: United States March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Sean Andrews [Andrews, Sean]

* * * Teddy Trivia Alfred Thayer Mahan began his U.S. Navy career as an officer in the American Civil War. He believed naval power was the key to strong ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Michael Giorgione

THE TWO MIDEAST summits are irrevocably linked with Camp David, but in 2012 President Obama decided to perform his own version of mountaintop diplomacy—minus the rancor. G8 “made my tour,” ...
( Category: History & Theory March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-28 | Author:Charles River Editors [Charles River Editors]

The Studebaker Building In addition to their business, the Studebaker Brothers were active in national politics, and for the most part the brothers backed Republican candidates and their policies. The ...
( Category: United States March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-19 | Author:Mary Clemmer Ames [Ames, Mary Clemmer]

IT is one of the traditions of Washington that Andrew Jackson decided the exact site of the present Treasury Building. After the third destruction by fire, in 1833, of the ...
( Category: American Civil War March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Nancy F. Cott

AT THE FIRST crest of Personal History’s success in March 1935, Sheean acquired a “girlfriend,” in his own word. He fixed his eye on Diana Forbes-Robertson—called Dinah—daughter of a famous ...
( Category: Media & Internet March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

B.C. 45. Dictator, r.p.c., C. Iulius Caesar III. Magister Equitum, M. Aemilius Lepidus. Coss., C. Iulius Caesar IV., sine collega. Q. Fabius Maximus, mort., C. Caninius Rebilus, C. Trebonius. During ...
( Category: United States March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Abigail Green [Green, Abigail]

( Category: United States March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-17 | Author:James C. Humes

Courage No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. Crime It’s time . ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN HOLDING ON TO THE VICE-PRESIDENCY January-August 1956 THROUGH THE FIRST MONTHS OF 1956, Nixon lived in an agony of suspension because the world’s most famous decision maker refused ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-16 | Author:Tim Carroll

Jimmy Doolittle (left) shakes hands with Shorty Fulton (right) before the war. Reprinted with permission of the Akron Beacon Journal and Ohio.com. Jimmy Doolittle (left) and Shorty Fulton (right) in ...
( Category: World War II March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-16 | Author:Bytwerk, Randall L.

A children’s book told how two young boys secretly peered in the window of the town’s Jewish slaughterhouse and saw a bloody scene of animal misery. They leave, shaken and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Corey Mead

As we have seen, in the late eighteenth century the glass armonica grew fashionable all throughout Europe. Still, no country embraced it with quite the same passion as Röllig’s and ...
( Category: United States March 17,2020 )