Americas
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Cory Stargel

The Terminal Annex Post Office was constructed in 1938 on Alameda Street next to Union Station. Designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, the building served as the city’s central mail distribution ...
( Category: Photography & Video September 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Vincent F. Seyfried & William Asadorian

91. BAR INTERIOR, 1934. A typical Astoria bar on 18th Street and 27th Avenue in 1934. The tin ceiling and fixtures survive from pre-Prohibition days, but the portrait of Franklin ...
( Category: Americas September 21,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-28 | Author:Webb, Gary [Webb, Gary]

16 “It’s a burn” It was time to put the Torres brothers to the test. Providing intelligence and letting the cops follow them around was one thing. But if the ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 21,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-02 | Author:Helmer, Diana Star & S., Thomas [Helmer, Diana Star]

Poster for a Red Cross benefit game. In Chicago, All-Americans saw the Wrigley Building carving out a piece of summer sky. They went to Wrigley Field and remembered how, one ...
( Category: Baseball September 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-01 | Author:Kwame Anthony Appiah

COLOR INSIDE THE LINES In the twenty-first century, one might have hoped to see signs that race thinking and the hostilities grounded in race—the problem of the color line—might be ...
( Category: Sociology September 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-03 | Author:Patrick Spero

Pennsylvania Frontier 1766–1768 Meanwhile, as imperial visions of the Empire in the West came together and peace seemed at hand, things in the Conococheague got worse. Penn’s alliance with frontier ...
( Category: Americas September 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Jay Dolin

CHAPTER 8 The Gentleman Pirate and Blackbeard Blackbeard as portrayed in the 1726 edition of Johnson’s A General History of the Pyrates. BETWEEN THE CRASH OF THE WHYDAH AT THE ...
( Category: Americas September 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amy Wilentz

Aristide disappeared into the countryside. For a week, no one knew quite where he was. Soldiers from Fort Dimanche started arresting the boys who were washing cars at the intersection ...
( Category: Americas September 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]

When we first began to develop atomic energy, the United States was in no way committed to employ atomic weapons against any other power. With the activation of the Manhattan ...
( Category: Military September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-02 | Author:David Levering Lewis

CHAPTER 9 EXCEPTIONALISM AT WORK 1943 Detroit Riot reenacted, Willkie and team. Courtesy the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. To a Forty-Eighter descendant, the dividend of immigration was obvious ...
( Category: Historical September 20,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-09-04 | Author:Jill Lepore

III. ROOSEVELT HAD GROWN haggard. At his inauguration in January 1945, he was wan and weak and could hardly stand; during his brief speech, his whole body shook, as if ...
( Category: Americas September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Robert E. Manning

Replica of Union Pacific Railroad engine 119, Golden Spike National Historic Site (Utah) Golden Spike National Historic Site commemorates the 1869 completion of the first transcontinental railroad. The park’s sparse, ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-19 | Author:Imani Perry

Out here on a sand bar, working and taking walks by the ocean, which seems to be my particular brand of therapy . . . back at the end of ...
( Category: World September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Gibbons

WHAT WAS WON AND WHAT WAS LOST The victories of the post-World War II period partially destabilized the political and social supports for white space and privilege, and challenged widespread ...
( Category: Sociology September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-15 | Author:Michael K. Deaver [Michael K. Deaver]

Ronald Reagan saw a saint in nearly everybody, bad in almost nobody, especially his staff. This probably isn’t the best quality to have in a president, but he survived because ...
( Category: Historical September 19,2018 )