United States
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Howard Zinn

The American Declaration of Independence, however, clearly understood that difference of interest between government and citizen. It says that the purpose of government is to secure certain rights for its ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anitra Lynn McLeod [McLeod, Anitra Lynn]

Chapter 8 After the spectacular bonding they’d shared, the last thing Mingor wished to do was allow anything to destroy the peaceful feeling he had. Lately, his calm had been ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-04 | Author:Gordon S. Wood

V Republicanism Amilitary victory over Great Britain may have been essential for the success of the Revolution, but for Americans it was scarcely the whole of the Revolution. Although the ...
( Category: Democracy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Neal Thompson [Thompson, Neal]

At times Henri Landwirth felt caught between his two favorite astronauts: Alan Shepard and John Glenn. He knew they were two very different men, but there were qualities in each ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Taylor Branch

“A POST-ELECTION silence settled today on the LBJ ranch,” reported the New York Times on November 10. In seclusion, the President groaned, “I don’t think I lost that election. I ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM]

Behind the shack, in the staff cabin, moods ranged from catatonia to heartbreak to estrangement. Muggsy O’Leary crouched apart in a window seat on the port side, staring down at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Charles Bracelen Flood [Flood, Charles Bracelen]

During the time that Sherman was conducting what became known as the Meridian Campaign, Grant wrote a brief letter to Julia. In it he said, “It now looks as if ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edward Steers Jr. [Steers, Edward Jr.]

Left, Samuel Cox Sr. Booth and Herold stopped at Cox’s plantation home, Rich Hill, around midnight on April 15, 1865. Cox saw to their safe hiding in a pine thicket ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Andro Linklater [Linklater, Andro]

20 AGENT 13 REBORN NEW ORLEANS WAS WHERE JAMES WILKINSON had first transferred his loyalties to Spain. Two years later, it was where he had returned to negotiate his transition ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William C. Davis [Davis, William C.]

SEVENTEEN Deadly Friends 1817–1818 Slight are the outward signs of evil thought, Within—within—'twas there the spirit wrought! Love shows all changes—Hate, Ambition, Guile, Betray no further than the bitter smile. ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

New York receives the news of Fisk’s death with mixed emotions. Horace Greeley lectures Wall Street and America for having produced such a sorry specimen of humanity. “Fiction furnishes few ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Flagel, Thomas R. [Flagel, Thomas R.]

He ran for office as an ardent anticommunist, and his inaugural address affirmed his oath to fight Marxism anytime, anywhere. After the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs, however, Kennedy ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-26 | Author:Ken Hechler [Hechler, Ken]

XIII. The Capture of Remagen Late in the forenoon of March 7, a gray, drizzly day, a little group of American soldiers on the Birresdorf road near the abandoned R.A.D. ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-15 | Author:Martin Dugard [DUGARD, MARTIN]

FARTHER TO THE right, Colonel Garland and an injured Major Mansfield were leading a frantic retreat from the outskirts of Monterrey. Those city streets had initially been a sanctuary after ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Millie Werber [Werber, Millie]

8 THE WORST PART WAS THE RATS. I WAS PETRIFIED THAT they were going to eat my eyes. Several days after the Noremburskys’ escape, a man I knew came into ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )