Home > History > Americas
Americas
St. Francisville and West Feliciana Parish by Anne Butler
epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Anne Butler

Erected in the 1890s to replace an earlier home that burned down, Como is the only plantation house in West Feliciana located directly on the Mississippi River, whose floodwaters have ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2018 )
Top 10 Washington, DC by DK
epub |eng | | Author:DK

10.National Postal Museum 12 Massachusetts Ave, NE • Open 10am–5:30pm daily • Dis. Access Google Map The US Postal Service delivers over 600 million items of mail every day, and ...
( Category: United States March 17,2018 )
Great Lakes Island Escapes by Maureen Dunphy
epub |eng | | Author:Maureen Dunphy

On October 5, 2015, 80 years after a memorial to contain the bones of the great leader of the Shawnee and of a large tribal confederacy was begun, the statue ...
( Category: United States March 17,2018 )
Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads by Carolyn Sakowski
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Carolyn Sakowski

Chimney Rock was in the newspapers long before Rome Freeman arrived in the area. On July 31, 1806, a widow named Patsey Reaves reported that she and her two children ...
( Category: Atlases & Maps March 17,2018 )
Through Darkness to Light by Jeanine Michna-Bales
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Jeanine Michna-Bales [Jeanine Michna-Bales]

Slaves picking cotton in South Carolina, c. 1860. Rob Oechsle Collection. Advertisement offering slaves in exchange for cash or sugar in The Daily Picayune, February 4, 1840. Louisiana Division/City Archives, ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2018 )
From Italy to the North End: Photographs, 1972-1982 by Anthony V. Riccio; James Pasto
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Anthony V. Riccio; James Pasto

No. Bennet Court, 1981. Marianna D’Antonio, 15 Unity Street, 1980. Maria Comforto, Charter Street, 1981. Mariano Pennisi looking from his building on 4 Garden Court Street, where John Francis “Honey ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2018 )
ASAP World History by Princeton Review
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Princeton Review

The Scientific Revolution: Quick Facts • The Scientific Revolution began when Nicolaus Copernicus argued for a heliocentric (sun-centered) solar system. • Scientists such as Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton began ...
( Category: Higher & Continuing Education March 17,2018 )
Moon Maine (Travel Guide) by Nangle Hilary
epub |eng | 2017-07-18 | Author:Nangle, Hilary [Nangle, Hilary]

SCHOODIC SECTION OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK The landscape of the smaller and far-less-touristed Schoodic section of Acadia isn’t as awe-inspiring as that on Mount Desert, but it’s no less powerful. ...
( Category: United States March 17,2018 )
San Francisco (Postcard History Series) by Robert W. Bowen
epub |eng | 2010-08-23 | Author:Robert W. Bowen [Bowen, Robert W.]

Mission High School was one of the city’s five public high schools. Located at Eighteenth and Dolores Streets, the school survived the 1906 earthquake with severe damage. When the school ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 17,2018 )
Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: . . . and Other Streets of New Orleans! by John Chase
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:John Chase [Chase, John]

On the river side of Camp street, Lafon's plan and the street names show more consideration for the owners of these properties: Delord Sarpy, Thomas Soulet, Robin Delogny, and Jacques ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2018 )
Shipshewana by Dorothy O. Pratt
epub |eng | 2004-03-17 | Author:Dorothy O. Pratt

Camps Upon arrival, the men found themselves at camps run by the historic peace churches, though the civilian manager reported directly to the Selective Service. According to a 1942 army ...
( Category: United States March 17,2018 )
Year of Meteors by Douglas R. Egerton
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-17 | Author:Douglas R. Egerton

Voters in 1860 did not yet use paper ballots or vote behind curtains. Voters had to obtain a ticket, which included all state party candidates, from a party functionary and ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2018 )
On This Day in Terre Haute History by Dorothy Weinz Jerse
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Dorothy Weinz Jerse

The top five floors of the building were removed in 1972, and an extensive remodeling project was completed in 1989. Courtesy J.S. Calvert Collection. JULY JULY 1 1972—Charles T. Hyte ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2018 )
Florida Soul by John Capouya
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:John Capouya

I DON’T GIVE OUT MY AGE. I was born in Fort Gaines, Georgia, right outside of Albany. [Clarke was likely born in or around 1936.] Most of my relatives came ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2018 )
Klansville, U.S.A:The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan by Cunningham David
epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Cunningham, David [Cunningham, David]

Charlotte Though only an hour and a half car ride from Greensboro, Charlotte’s reputation in terms of race relations seemed at times a world apart. In 1963, while some of ...
( Category: Sociology March 16,2018 )

First Prev [575] [576] [577] [578] 579 [580] [581] [582] [583] [584] [585] Next Last