United States
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Max Lerner

The brief months as vice president were a relief from Truman’s close to a decade of hard work, as senator, but also an anticlimax. Truman managed a large correspondence and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 1992-03-02 | Author:Robert Serber, Richard Rhodes [Robert Serber, Richard Rhodes]

the maximum pressure varying as 1/r3 instead of the usual 1/r2 because the width of the strongly compressed region increases proportionally to r. This behavior continues as long as p ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Erin Einhorn

On my next trip to B dzin, I presented Helen with the document I’d promised that named Honorata as manager of the house. Helen thanked me but said she still ...
( Category: United States February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 1997-07-15 | Author:Stephan Thernstrom & Abigail Thernstrom

TRACKING If standardized tests are unfair to blacks—or more broadly to students from other than middle-class homes—it follows that using them to assign students to particular courses or academic tracks ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 21,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-09-15 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

CHAPTER 4 Rights of Man, Part Two Madame Roland may have been wrong when she said that Paine was more fit to scatter the kindling sparks than to lay the ...
( Category: History & Theory February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-06 | Author:Captivating History [History, Captivating] [History, Captivating]

( Category: United States February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-27 | Author:Stephanie Gorton

13 You Have the Moon Yet, Ain’t It? Lincoln Steffens, looking out his train window as Manhattan’s sprawl fizzled into pastureland, mulled over his latest order from McClure. He was ...
( Category: United States February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-19 | Author:William J. Cooper

CHAPTER 7 — “The First and Holiest Rights of Humanity” JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WOULD BECOME A LUMINARY IN CONGRESS during the middle and late 1830s. As the first former president ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Melissa Lukeman Bohrer

Lydia Darragh, the daughter of John Barrington, was born about 1728 and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Little is known of her childhood except that she was part of a large ...
( Category: American Revolution February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:David Cruise & Alison Griffiths

-TEN - Out of Cold Storage VELMA’S SPIRITS LIFTED dramatically in the months that Marguerite Henry rummaged around in the Bronn family history and Velma’s early memories. Henry’s probing functioned ...
( Category: Horses February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-03 | Author:Unknown

THE PHOENIX BIRD In the Garden of Paradise, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, bloomed a rose bush. Here, in the first rose, a bird was born. His flight was like ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-22 | Author:Unknown

There was a time when this would have been called contingency planning. Contingency planning is defined as a business plan that confronts the likelihood of any disaster, no matter how ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-18 | Author:Jennifer Chambers

Cell at Occoquan Workhouse, Virginia, 1917. These are similar to the conditions women endured when arrested for attempting to vote. Records of the National Woman’s Party, Library of Congress. However, ...
( Category: Women in History February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:RICHARD REEVES

CHAPTER 24 October 21, 1971 JOHN ANDREWS was the designated anecdotalist standing behind President Nixon on September 30 at a White House reception for finance ministers and other officials in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Allen C. Guelzo

The debate at Charleston marked the end of the third phase of the Lincoln-Douglas campaigns, as well as the end of the only swing either candidate would bother to make ...
( Category: History & Theory February 18,2020 )