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The Navajo Code Talkers by Bruce Watson
epub |eng | 2012-05-04 | Author:Bruce Watson [Bruce Watson]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bruce Watson is the author of four acclaimed books of American history, including Sacco and Vanzetti, Freedom Summer, and Bread and Roses, each published by Viking. As ...
( Category: Americas August 2,2018 )
Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947 by Rachel Waltner Goossen
epub |eng | 2007-12-28 | Author:Rachel Waltner Goossen [Goossen, Rachel Waltner]

In the years leading up to World War II thousands of women pacifists who had entered colleges or universities or begun careers in major cities had found soul mates in ...
( Category: World August 2,2018 )
Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest by Matt Williams
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-08-01 | Author:Matt Williams

Bank Swallow, May, Indiana: Activity is high in a Bank Swallow colony, where nesting pairs are packed into close proximity with their neighbors. Chases and fights are common early in ...
( Category: Americas August 2,2018 )
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Leffler Melvyn P
epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Leffler, Melvyn P. [Leffler, Melvyn P.]

Iranians marching U.S. hostages, 1979. The hostage crisis highlighted U.S. vulnerabilities. The American people rallied behind their president but yearned for bolder leadership. Hamilton Jordan was taken aback when his ...
( Category: Americas August 2,2018 )
George B. McClellan by Stephen W. Sears
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen W. Sears

The earliest known picture of George B. McClellan, a daguerreotype dating from about 1846, shows him as a West Point cadet. With him are his father, Dr. George McClellan, and ...
( Category: Military August 2,2018 )
Ranch in the Slocan by Cole Harris
epub |eng | 2018-05-18 | Author:Cole Harris

Materials Shiplap for floors, roofs, etc. floor joists and plank for frames, 4,200 ft, del. approx $113.00 Casement sash, del. approx $46.20 tarpaper $4.50 galv. iron for valleys, shower stall ...
( Category: Earth Sciences August 2,2018 )
Pretend You're In A War: The Who and the Sixties by Mark Blake
epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Mark Blake [Blake, Mark]

CHAPTER SEVEN THE FIRST CONCERT ON MARS ‘Everything new, uninhibited and kinky is blooming at the top of London life.’ Time magazine, 15 April 1966 ‘The Who won’t last that ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 1,2018 )
Breaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe
epub |eng | 1992-07-31 | Author:Michael D. Coe

35 Glyph for lak’in, “east.” 36 Kelley’s reading of K’ak’upakal at Chichén Itzá. These are variant spellings based upon the Maya phonetic syllabary. Notwithstanding Thompson’s disapproval of somebody he liked ...
( Category: Archaeology August 1,2018 )
A Time of Paradox: America Since 1890 by Jeansonne Glen
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Jeansonne, Glen [Jeansonne, Glen]

PART III An Era of Uncertainty, 1945–1968 Prologue EVEN AFTER winning World War II, Americans lived with uncertainty. They seemed to be fighting constantly, waging wars abroad in Korea and ...
( Category: Americas August 1,2018 )
Objective Falaise: 8 August 1944 – 16 August 1944 by Georges Bernage
epub |eng | 2018-07-29 | Author:Georges Bernage [Bernage, Georges]

( Category: Military August 1,2018 )
South Toward Home by Julia Reed
epub |eng | | Author:Julia Reed

A Tasteful Send-off In April 2014 in New Orleans, Mickey Easterling, a woman described in various obituaries as a “philanthropist and party giver,” attended her own funeral. I realize it’s ...
( Category: Humor August 1,2018 )
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions by Aptheker Herbert
epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Aptheker, Herbert [Aptheker, Herbert]

( Category: Social Sciences August 1,2018 )
The Cuban Connection by William Weyand Turner
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:William Weyand Turner [Turner, William Weyand]

Nixon had demonstrated his approval of assassination as a political tool; he never saw a proposal he didn't like. In October 1960, Nixon played golf with exiled leader Mario Garcia ...
( Category: World August 1,2018 )
On the Farm by Stevie Cameron
epub |eng | 2010-07-31 | Author:Stevie Cameron [Cameron, Stevie]

Don Adam was staying away from the sound and fury drummed up by the Sun’s revelations. He believed a serial killer was taking women from the Downtown Eastside. His Missing ...
( Category: True Crime August 1,2018 )
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Robin D. G. Kelley [Kelley, Robin D. G.]

The NFU's radical shift, the Farm Holiday Association's decline in the Midwest, and strained relations between Communists and STFU leaders convinced Johnson that the Party should further alter its current ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 31,2018 )

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