American History
epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Kevin Brown

If war can ever be said to be ‘good’, the Second World War had been a good one for medicine. Advances had been made in the fields of burns, plastic ...
( Category: American History September 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Ayers

19. Diana spent part of the summer with Bernardine, Teddy Gold, and dozens of other Americans in Cuba meeting with a delegation of Vietnamese to exchange views on strategies and ...
( Category: American History September 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-04 | Author:Harold Evans [EVANS, HAROLD]

When I’d met Sid Chaplin at the start of my editorship, the region had been sunk in gloom, and we’d wondered whether we could persuade someone to stage a spectacular ...
( Category: American History September 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:Janice Tremeear

Vintage postcard of Diamonds Restaurant in Villa Ridge, Missouri. Courtesy Janice Tremeear. Destroyed in 1948 by a fire large enough to temporarily shut down Route 66, the Diamonds was rebuilt; ...
( Category: American History September 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-14 | Author:Harry Gratwick

The Islesboro Historical Society and Museum. Built in 1894, it was originally the island meeting-house. In 1906, it was the island school before it became the historical society in the ...
( Category: American History September 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-26 | Author:Mike Davis

(May 2005, Socialist Review) “Are we all destined to be Minutemen?” a California journalist recently asked. He had just visited www.texasborderwatch.com, the website sponsored by Texas Governor Rick Perry that ...
( Category: American History September 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Stephen W. Sears [Sears, Stephen W.]

THE LOST ORDER: MARYLAND, SEPTEMBER 1862 Alpheus S. Williams to George B. McClellan Robert E. Lee: Special Orders No. 191 On September 13, in a roadside field, an Indiana soldier ...
( Category: American History September 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Kent Nerburn [Nerburn, Kent]

13 “Our People Are Hungry and Weak” A HUNDRED MILES farther ahead, the Nez Perce sensed the weakening pursuit. Attacks by the Crow and Bannock had dwindled to almost nothing. ...
( Category: American History September 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-31 | Author:Chris Murphy

* * * • • • In Baltimore, whenever Corey Dodd left his family’s house, he knew what would be waiting for him when he came back. His three-year-old daughter, ...
( Category: American History September 7,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch [Meltzer, Brad]

47 New York, New York June 1776 The Life Guards. They’re George Washington’s elite unit. His trusted bodyguards. The most disciplined men. The best-trained soldiers. In an army otherwise made ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:Elaine Weiss [Weiss, Elaine]

( Category: Specific Group Biographies September 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:David Bell

Laws tortured to the purpose of a party The New Brunswick elite’s vision of the most “gentlemanlike” government on earth did not include a political opposition. Theirs was an age ...
( Category: American History September 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:James Adams [Adams, James]

Chapter 10 ‘He was an Israeli. Name of Yossi Melman,’ Diana said. ‘One of the Shin Bet people kicked out after those shootings on the West Bank. Been operating as ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 7,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew F. Delmont

Born and raised in Pontiac, McCabe claimed to have never traveled south of Detroit before she started to protest “busing” at the age of thirty-six.7 Like many other women who ...
( Category: American History September 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Bauer, Kenneth Michael

CONSERVATION DEVELOPMENT: SHEY PHOKSUNDO NATIONAL PARK Amid the rise of a global environmental movement in the 1970s, Nepal’s first national parks—Royal Chitwan and Sagarmatha—were created.16 Before this, protected areas in ...
( Category: American History September 6,2020 )