American History
epub |eng | | Author:Rediker, Marcus;Chakraborty, Titas;Rossum, Matthias van;

“BUT THOMAS DIDN’T DIE” Desertion had a common history across race, ethnicity, and labor type at the Cape under VOC rule. Running away was widespread, in both its individual and ...
( Category: American History October 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-30 | Author:S.W. Frank [Frank, S.W.]

|Cyrus Prone, Cyrus quickly checked the time. Let’s hope Vishal is punctual. Behind him a roof condenser hummed. Fumes from the stack wafted in the air along with nocturnal sounds. ...
( Category: American History October 3,2021 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1982-01-01 | Author:Bruce Chatwin [Chatwin, Bruce]

26 WHILE WORKING AT Lurkenhope, one of Rosie’s duties had been to carry the bathwater upstairs to Reggie Bickerton’s bedroom. This place, to which few people were ever admitted, was ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-11 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

* * * — In the spring of 1791, almost exactly 229 years before protesters descended on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, the people of Virginia also gathered in the streets—not in ...
( Category: Traveler & Explorer Biographies October 2,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Evan Osnos [Osnos, Evan]

THIRTEEN UNMAKING THE MACHINES FOR HIS FIRST FORAY into politics, Trump benefited from uncanny timing. The institutions that might have thwarted him at other moments in history—the mainstream press, the ...
( Category: American History October 2,2021 )
epub |spa | 1993-01-01 | Author:Paul Preston [Preston, Paul]

( Category: Historical Biographies October 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-01 | Author:Jeremy Paxman [Paxman, Jeremy]

As in the strike which drove the final nail into the coffin of the industry, in 1984, the miners had not held a national ballot before the General Strike. On ...
( Category: Economics October 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Shepherd Iverson [Iverson, Shepherd]

From this list of presumptive dangers, several unpredictable and undesirable outcomes exist, yet after more than two generations of division and denial, a solution has remained elusive until now. This ...
( Category: American History October 1,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Shillington

In his opinion, the expedition had ‘restored to Englishmen the prestige which they had lost during the last six years’.527 Warren had ‘restored the natives to their lands’ – at ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 30,2021 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-21 | Author:William Douglas

Chapter XV A Full Heart I STOOD at daybreak one August morning on the ridge above Diamond Lake in the Wallowas. We were camped at Tombstone Lake and I had ...
( Category: American History September 30,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-04 | Author:Jamie Wall [Wall, Jamie]

They must have thought we were police, which is why no one would talk to us. And the further in we drove, the less we felt like we should be ...
( Category: American History September 28,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-30 | Author:Terry C Treadwell

Deputy US Marshal Fred White, shot by ‘Curly Bill’ Brocius. A young Virgil Earp. Virgil Earp in later years. Things came to a head when after one hold-up, when $9,000 ...
( Category: American History September 28,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Riedel; [Неизв.]

Four BAGHDAD AND WASHINGTON The phone rang in the communicator’s bedroom just before four in the morning on July 14, 1958. John and his wife had arrived in April in ...
( Category: American History September 28,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

CHAPTER X. A TROUBLING OF THE WATERS One evening in late June Mrs. Williamson was sitting by her kitchen window. Her knitting lay unheeded in her lap, and Timothy, though ...
( Category: American History September 26,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-21 | Author:Jesse Wente [Wente, Jesse]

* * * — When the internship came to an end, I had my home-video column and what seemed like an increasingly steady spot on Metro Morning; plus, I was ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 26,2021 )