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Arsenal of Democracy by Julian E. Zelizer
epub |eng | | Author:Julian E. Zelizer

13 RAMBO MEETS THE DEER HUNTER ON MARCH 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), calling for the construction of a high-tech shield to protect Americans ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
Cubs 100: A Century at Wrigley by Campana Dan & Carroll Rob
epub |eng | 2016-04-06 | Author:Campana, Dan & Carroll, Rob [Campana, Dan]

46. WHEN MARC MET HARRY MARC VILLASENOR, LIFELONG CHICAGO NORTH SIDER It was 1987, and the Cubs were playing the Expos. We arrived at the ballpark early to try to ...
( Category: Baseball April 10,2018 )
Portrait of a Woman in Silk by Zara Anishanslin
epub |eng | | Author:Zara Anishanslin

Joseph Highmore, Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, 1727 or after, mezzotint on paper, 11 1/4 in. × 8 1/8 in. D7913. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Willing’s social performance at the ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
Bloodstained Louisiana by Alan G. Gauthreaux
epub |eng | 2017-10-20 | Author:Alan G. Gauthreaux

On December 15, 1913, Dora Murff received a four-year sentence for the murder of J.M. Delhaye, and her stepfather received a ninety-nine-year sentence. Local media agreed that although Murff had ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
Peaceable Kingdom Lost by Kenny Kevin
epub |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:Kenny, Kevin

“Paxton Expedition, Inscribed to the Author of the Farce by HD.” Cartoon by Henry Dawkins, 1764. Cartoon 1764 [Pax]/795.F.20a. #2. 66984.0.9. Courtesy of Library Company of Philadelphia. On Sunday, February ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
Sustaining Lake Superior by Nancy Langston
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Nancy Langston [Langston, Nancy]

SEVEN The Mysteries of Toxaphene and Toxic Fish THE PERSISTENT, BIOACCUMULATIVE chemical named toxaphene offers a case study on the history of toxic contamination in Lake Superior fish. How did ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
Inside the Cold War From Marx to Reagan by Sven F. Kraemer
epub |eng | | Author:Sven F. Kraemer

4. Reagan’s START Revolution in Strategic Arms Control: “Eureka”—May 1981–June 1982 Reagan’s presidential campaign and early presidential statements on accelerated Soviet strategic modernization and increased numbers of Soviet forces, focused ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 10,2018 )
Republican Character by Donald T. Critchlow
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Donald T. Critchlow

Freshman Senator Goldwater Draws Organized Labor’s Wrath Goldwater entered the Senate in 1953 hoping to get an appointment to the important Armed Services Committee. Instead, Senate Majority Leader Robert Taft ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 10,2018 )
Brewing Up a Business by Sam Calagione
epub |eng | 2011-01-07 | Author:Sam Calagione

DON’T PASS UP THE CHANCE TO PROMOTE WHAT THE COMPETITION IS DOING If you are building a brand, your biggest challenge is convincing the public that your product is a ...
( Category: Small Business & Entrepreneurship April 10,2018 )
Pirates by Angus Konstam
epub |eng | | Author:Angus Konstam

CHARLES VANE AND HIS DIE-HARDS By the time Charles Vane made his dramatic exit from New Providence in August 1718, he was already seen as one of the toughest pirates ...
( Category: World April 10,2018 )
Canada's Residential Schools by Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada
epub |eng | 2016-02-05 | Author:Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Bibliography Primary Sources 1. Truth and Reconciliation Commission Databases The endnotes of this report often commence with the abbreviation trc, followed by one of the following abbreviations: asagr, avs, car, ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
The Yankee Way Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball by Willie Randolph
epub |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Willie Randolph

THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE team looked very similar to the one we’d been winning with before the strike. In the lead-up to the 1995 season, we did make one major ...
( Category: Biographies April 10,2018 )
The Lakota Way by Joseph M. Marshall III
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph M. Marshall III

Seeing the Way Things Are An Easterner moved to the West to live the slow-paced, elemental lifestyle he had always yearned after. In the autumn he purchased a rustic log ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 10,2018 )
Gilded Age Norfolk, Virginia: Tidewater Wealth, Industry and Propriety (None) by Spainhour Jaclyn
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Spainhour, Jaclyn [Spainhour, Jaclyn]

Clockwise from top left : James Wilson Hunter. Courtesy of the Hunter Foundation ; Lizzie Ayer Barnes Hunter. Courtesy of the Hunter Foundation ; The Hunter children: Harriet (left), James ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
After Camp by Robinson Greg
epub |eng | | Author:Robinson, Greg

Another reason for [their] indifference to the Japanese removal was more subtle but was more profoundly felt. The Japanese were not whitefolks. Their eyes, language, and customs belied the white ...
( Category: Anthropology April 10,2018 )

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