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The Civil War Era, 1848-1873 by Richard N. Current
epub |eng | | Author:Richard N. Current [Richard N. Current]

John H. and John W. Fonda of Prairie du Chien, father-and-son enlistees at the outbreak of the Civil War. First Wisconsin Artillery encampment near Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1864. Officers of the ...
( Category: Midwest January 6,2023 )
Farewell to East Prussia by Erhard Schulz
epub |eng | 2003-01-15 | Author:Erhard Schulz

I don’t recall much of my last summer vacation in Rehwalde. The people were gravely concerned about their relatives. The Russian front was coming closer even more. Even the simplest ...
( Category: World January 6,2023 )
War, a New Era, and Depression, 1914-1940 by Paul W. Glad
epub |eng | | Author:Paul W. Glad [Paul W. Glad]

* * * RML, Sen. 1922 .07 RML Jr., Sen. 1925 .03 .71 RML Jr., Sen. 1928 .47 .59 .53 PFL, Gov. 1930 .36 .47 .43 .67 PFL, Gov. 1932 ...
( Category: Midwest January 6,2023 )
The Progressive Era, 1893-1914 by John D. Buenker
epub |eng | | Author:John D. Buenker [John D. Buenker]

[3] Less publicized, but of equal importance to advocates of the New Education, was the expansion of secondary education. Between 1890 and 1906, the number of high schools in Wisconsin ...
( Category: History January 6,2023 )
A Short History of Wisconsin by Erika Janik
epub |eng | | Author:Erika Janik

14 DEPRESSION THE AUTOMOBILE, ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, and other new technologies expanded business opportunities in the 1920s. To fuel that growth, many companies borrowed money from banks. Factory production and stock ...
( Category: Americas January 6,2023 )
The Labor Movement in Wisconsin by Robert W. Ozanne
epub |eng | | Author:Robert W. Ozanne

Many of the state's unions have their own lobbyists. Delegations of local unions frequently come to Madison to talk to their assemblyman or senator, and most of the central bodies ...
( Category: History January 6,2023 )
Steam & Cinders by Axel Lorenzsonn
epub |eng | | Author:Axel Lorenzsonn

We have run, during most of the year, two trains each way, per day, over the road, devoted exclusively to carrying passengers, also two regular freight trains, besides a number ...
( Category: Americas January 6,2023 )
The Line Riders by Samuel K. Dolan
epub |eng | 2022-09-30 | Author:Samuel K. Dolan [Dolan, Samuel K.]

A group photo of Border Patrol officers in the Marfa subdistrict in the 1920s. From left to right: Chief Patrol Inspector John Harn, Assistant Chief Miles Scannell, Emmett L. Hunter, ...
( Category: Americas January 6,2023 )
Soldiers of Revolution by Mark Lause
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Lause

Those in the ranks understood the problem better than those at the helm of government. One day in Autun, Giuseppe Beghelli listened as a well-informed Basque major at the Hôtel ...
( Category: Revolutionary January 6,2023 )
The Wandering Army by Huw J. Davies
epub |eng | 2023-01-02 | Author:Huw J. Davies [Davies, Huw J.]

( Category: Great Britain January 6,2023 )
In the Dark with My Dress on Fire by Blanche La Guma
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Blanche La Guma

Alex stayed in detention for the full ninety days. When he came out in early 1964 he went back into house arrest. From 1962 until we left the country in ...
( Category: Southern Africa January 6,2023 )
The Night Canada Stood Still by Robert Wright
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Robert Wright [Wright, Robert]

On Sunday, October 8, Lucien Bouchard joined Mario Dumont and other leading sovereignists on the Yes campaign tour. Jacques Parizeau stayed home. The passing of the baton was complete, and ...
( Category: Canada January 6,2023 )
Bethune in Spain by Roderick Stewart & Jesús Majada
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Roderick Stewart & Jesús Majada

Worsley helping refugees into the Renault. (Hazen Sise. National Film Board of Canada) It was difficult to choose which to take. Our car was besieged by a mob of frantic ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies January 6,2023 )
Boston 1775 by Francis Russell
epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Francis Russell [Francis Russell]

One by one, the barges ground ashore at Morton’s Point. The redcoats, with haversacks and muskets, splashed through the shallows and up the beach. Then the barges returned to Boston ...
( Category: Americas January 6,2023 )
The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747 by Gordon M. Sayre
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Gordon M. Sayre

Plate 1. Map of Cap François (Gulf of Mexico). VAULT oversize Ayer MS 257, map no. 1. Courtesy The Newberry Library, Chicago Plate 2. Plan of the Fort at Yazoo, ...
( Category: Colonial Period January 6,2023 )

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