epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Lisa Graves

URSULA SOUTHEIL (1488-1561) Mother Shipton was born in a cave. Her mother, Agatha, had been driven out of the village she lived in by rumors and accusations. Agatha died giving ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Khizr Khan [Khan, Khizr]

Before the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, senators were elected by their state’s legislatures. When there is a vacancy in the Senate, the governor of the affected state can call ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-15 | Author:Carol Anderson

While McCulloch saw the need to protect the ballot box, Attorney General John Mitchell, who had served as director of Nixon’s 1968 presidential run, announced that the Department of Justice, ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-13 | Author:rob staeger

epub |eng | 2020-05-04 | Author:Erin Geiger Smith

* * * VOTING LANGUAGE FACTS * * * * * * The fashion writer Teri Agins advised colleagues to sprinkle “chocolate chips” throughout their stories—tidbits that people would want ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Kathleen Krull

In 1969 at Yale Law School, Hillary was one of 27 women in a class of 237—law was still a new field for women. Most professors were skeptical about women ...

epub |eng | 1995-03-14 | Author:Anna W. Hale

When Master Smith had left to continue mapping the coast, Hunt invited twenty young Patuxet braves to a feast on the ship to celebrate the successful trading. Among them was ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:H. E. Marshall [Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)]

Chapter 46 - King William's War and Queen Anne's War At this time in Europe France and Britain were at war. When King William came to take possession of Britain, ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Brian Thornton

epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Pumphrey

Samoset AT LAST SPRING CAME bringing health and hope to the Pilgrims. Again the axes rang out in the forest, and the half-built cottages were soon finished. The snow melted ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Linda Barrett Osborne

The NAACP held this protest parade in New York City in 1917 after a race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois. The riot shocked the country. African Americans were alarmed ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Tim Grove

A 1966 CORONA IMAGE OF THE DOLON AIRFIELD IN THE SOVIET UNION, MAGNIFIED MORE THAN 20 TIMES. ILLUSTRATION DEPICTING THE RECOVERY OF A DISCOVERER SATELLITE PAYLOAD, CIRCA 1960. A NAVY ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Taylor, Franklin [Taylor, Franklin]

At only forty-three years of age, he was nevertheless well prepared for the job. He was well-read and well-traveled. He was an avid reader and sometimes would read up to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick & Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Soviet soldiers used the winter to prepare for war against the Germans. Stalin counted on promised US aid. The two men carried a letter from Roosevelt. “Your people and mine ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Martin W. Sandler

Eager to launch the assault as quickly as possible, Palmer asked the secretary of labor, who in 1919 had much broader powers than he or she would have today, to ...