History
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Kukla

A year after Governor Henry crushed Arthur Campbell’s separatist schemes, he was confronted with recurrent skirmishes between Kentucky settlers and Wabash Indians in the Ohio Valley near Vincennes (in modern ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Natasha L. Henry

• The Queen; • The Earl of Durham — the Lieutenant-Governor and their families; • The Army and Navy — defenders of our rights and privileges; • May peace and ...
( Category: Education & Reference April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Jon Sterngass

In response to an effort by the U.S. government to break the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 and remove the Sioux to a smaller reservation, the Sioux conducted a marauding ...
( Category: Biographies April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-04-06 | Author:Tonya Bolden [Bolden, Tonya]

Lil Hardin Armstrong. After she and Louie split up, Lil kept her swing—on the bandstand, fronting Lil Armstrong's All-Girl Orchestra; on shellac, recording for Decca; and later as a solo ...
( Category: Arts, Music & Photography April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-06 | Author:Henry M. Holden [Holden, Henry M.]

Image Credit: AP Images / NASA This photo of the Challenger space shuttle taken seconds before the explosion shows a flame and hot gas leaking from the side of the ...
( Category: History April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:Bernd Horn

A Ranger in winter dress. Courtesy Fort William Henry Corporation. The change in philosophy also showed in how the Europeans adapted their tactics. Rangers and scouts were always included in ...
( Category: Americas April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Katherine Ashenburg

Bébé learns to wash. In spite of the ringlets and nightdress, this is a little French boy mastering the elements of good hygiene, from braving cold water to cleaning his ...
epub |eng | 2016-04-06 | Author:Leonard S. Marcus [Marcus, Leonard S.]

Q: What were the first comics you read? A: I grew up in the 1970s, which was a great time for reprints of comics from earlier decades. My dad would ...
( Category: Biographies April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Linda Skeers

1799–1847 • England Mary spent her whole life in the seaside town of Lyme Regis in Dorset, England. As a child she loved to hunt for interesting rocks, seashells, and ...
( Category: Biographies April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Colonel Bernd Horn

On the 18th we had our first fight, and that was the hottest fought on this side…. We marched all the previous night, doing 28 miles, and got here at ...
( Category: History April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-18 | Author:Jacob Abbott [Abbott, Jacob]

Crœsus's feeling of security. This answer pleased the king quite as much as the former one had done. The allusion to the contingency of a mule's reigning in Media he ...
( Category: History April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-04 | Author:Betsy Christian

How sad for Austin and his friends to be robbed of their little bit of food out in the middle of nowhere. There was no Burger King drive-through anywhere close, ...
( Category: History April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Teri Kanefield

9 The Good Ship Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. —Alexander ...
( Category: Biographies April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:HP Newquist

Since he wasn’t making solid chocolate bars that would compete with their products, and he had been a good employee, Hershey and Murrie were happy to help H.B. out. They ...
( Category: Education & Reference April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Weil

THE SOVEREIGN HALF AN hour later a carriage stopped in front of the inn. Joe got out first, then he helped Betsy and Susannah. When Mary started to step out, ...
( Category: Biographies April 3,2018 )