Americas
epub |eng | 1993-11-15 | Author:Norman Maclean [Maclean, Norman]

A few summers ago, thirty years after the fire, I sent what I hoped was gentle word through a common friend to a mother of one of the Mann Gulch ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 5,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

A resident of the Cholon neighborhood watches helplessly as fire creeps toward her home during the fierce fighting that engulfed parts of Saigon during “Mini-Tet” in May 1968. Some thirty ...
( Category: Americas October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard H. Owens

8 ROGUE STATEHOOD According to Article IV, Section III, of the United States Constitution, “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall ...
( Category: Americas October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 1969-11-17 | Author:Theodore H. White [White, Theodore H.]

1See The Making of the President—1964, Chapter 8. 2This writer has, over the past seven years, been repeatedly associated with the Columbia Broadcasting System and independently responsible for several major ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-21 | Author:Lincoln, Abraham [Lincoln, Abraham]

To Edward Bates Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 29, 1862. Hon. Attorney General My dear Sir: Few things perplex me more than this question between Gov. Gamble, and the War Department, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1989-10-01 | Author:Abraham Lincoln

To John Mathers Springfield, July 20 1858 Jno. Mathers, Esq. My dear Sir: Your kind and interesting letter of the 19th. was duly received. Your suggestions as to placing one’s ...
( Category: Americas October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-22 | Author:Louis P. Masur

11. Lincoln signed forty-eight copies of this authorized edition of the Emancipation Proclamation—special souvenirs to be sold at the Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair of June 1864. Approximately half of ...
( Category: Americas October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Michael Burlingame

31 “The Signs Look Better” Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July–November 1863) Lincoln’s popularity soared after the victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson. His old friend ...
( Category: Americas October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:John Burt

6.5 Racism and Freedom One way to put the slave power conspiracy theory is this: “Slavery is incompatible with freedom, not merely in itself, but also because the exigencies of ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1996-11-01 | Author:Fehrenbacher, Don E. & Fehrenbacher, Virginia [Fehrenbacher, Don E.]

AGNES HARRISON MACDONELL English girl who attended a White House reception in February 1863 and wrote home about it to her parents.306 1. Responding to her statement that the people ...
( Category: Americas October 4,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1996-11-01 | Author:Don E. Fehrenbacher & Virginia Fehrenbacher [Fehrenbacher, Don E.]

AGNES HARRISON MACDONELL English girl who attended a White House reception in February 1863 and wrote home about it to her parents.306 1. Responding to her statement that the people ...
( Category: Americas October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Don E. Fehrenbacher

There are still other features of Nelson's opinion that betray his proslavery bias. Responding to the assertion that earlier decisions of the Missouri supreme court lent consistent support to Dred ...
( Category: Constitutional Law October 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Michael Burlingame

13 “A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) In 1860, the radical abolitionist Parker Pillsbury dismissed Lincoln as “the Kentucky clodhopper,” scoffed at his antislavery record, ...
( Category: Americas October 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Guy Lawson [Lawson, Guy]

* * * I. Gates described his dealings with the “amazingly corrupt” Kyrgyzstan government as one of the most despicable experiences of his career—but still the American government did business ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Joe Jackson

21 “THERE WILL BE A BETTER DAY TO DIE” That night, a frigid wind blew from the northwest, bringing a light cover of snow. At Wounded Knee, bodies began to ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 4,2017 )