American History
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Melissa Woods [Woods, Melissa]

When Violet woke up the following morning, sunlight was shining weakly through the dusty windows. It was early. She stretched, her joints popping from a night on the thin blanket. ...
( Category: American History August 30,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Padraic X. Scanlan

Charlie Maxwell’s War Charles Maxwell understood that the Slave Trade Act had empowered military officers, giving them a source of recruits and a chance to line their pockets. Maxwell used ...
( Category: American History August 30,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Zimmer, Louis B.;

“To make all-out war seem an unattractive course”! The understatement is indeed baffling, and so is the perverse logic on which it is based. Could either limited nuclear war—let alone ...
( Category: American History August 29,2021 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-06 | Author:Ramos, Adrian & Compacted, History

Chapter Six Creek Removal The Creeks, whom the Seminoles were forced to settle with in the 1840s, had already been present in Indian Territory since, at least, 1826. The series ...
( Category: American History August 29,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-23 | Author:Honoree Fanonne Jeffers [Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne]

Song How a Man Becomes a Monster The fault of how Samuel Pinchard, the man who would be known by the Negroes on his land as “Master,” became an atrocity, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 29,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Holloway, John [Holloway, John]

IV What of the workers in the factories, the industrial proletariat? Are they not central to the concept of class struggle? Is work not central to the whole understanding of ...
( Category: Economics August 29,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:Edward Feser & Joseph Bessette [Feser, Edward]

“Justice to Us Is No Less Than the Death Penalty” We have devoted considerable space to describing the crimes that led to the execution of forty-three murderers in 2012. Many ...
( Category: American History August 28,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-15 | Author:Tom Nichols

The age of nostalgia has begun. It is an age of false myths, unparalleled political miscalculations, and rising tensions between nations—a time of regression and pessimism.48 Some of this is ...
( Category: American History August 28,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Frie

The uniqueness of the second generation In the small sample of “psychohistorical figures” I interviewed between 1971 and 1973 and further supported by the next 40 years of clinical experience, ...
( Category: American History August 28,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Bates; [Bates, David]

These efforts were largely successful: for the most part, SLC members refrained from the riot’s brutality.48 Beyond the union’s push for unity and peace, geography provided the simplest explanation for ...
( Category: American History August 27,2021 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-18 | Author:Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville & Washington Irving [Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de]

THE VIEW from the snowy peak of the Wind River Mountains, while it had excited Captain Bonneville's enthusiasm, had satisfied him that it would be useless to force a passage ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 26,2021 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]

( Category: American History August 26,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-24 | Author:Mike Duncan [Duncan, Mike]

AFTER THE MOVE to Paris, the marquis de Lafayette personally found himself at a unique political intersection. He now combined the roles of chief of police, royal adviser, National Assembly ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 25,2021 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Wheeler [Wheeler, Tom]

Mrs. Lincoln: At 4:30 p.m. to-day General Grant telegraphs that he has Petersburg completely enveloped from river below to river above, and has captured, since he started last Wednesday, about ...
( Category: American History August 25,2021 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]

It was the first word of kindness the child had ever heard in her life; and the sweet tone and manner struck strangely on the wild, rude heart, and a ...
( Category: American History August 25,2021 )