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The Jamestown Experiment by Tony Williams
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tony Williams

In mid-May hundreds of Englishmen and women traveled to the town of Woolwich’s docks on the Thames, ten miles downriver from London. Most walked individually or in small groups. Some ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills
epub |eng | | Author:Garry Wills

Epilogue THE OTHER ADDRESS It is tempting to think that Lincoln went too far when he cleansed the morally infected air of Gettysburg. By turning all the blood and waste ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
The Barbary Plague by Marilyn Chase
epub |eng | 2003-06-14 | Author:Marilyn Chase [Chase, Marilyn]

Earthquake AT 5:12 A.M. ON WEDNESDAY, April 18, 1906, the ground beneath San Francisco convulsed. There was a groan of grinding mortar and a thunder of raining brick and stone. ...
( Category: History June 15,2017 )
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Andrew Preston [Preston, Andrew]

TRUMAN AND KENNAN could not have been more different temperamentally and politically. Instead, it was their shared spirituality and anticommunism that helped shape U.S. foreign policy in the formative early ...
( Category: Religious Studies June 15,2017 )
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk (Frank Feng's Library) by Satyajit Das
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Satyajit Das

Risk Is Our Business Cornelius Van der Starr founded AIG in 1919 in Shanghai, China. Under Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg, Starr’s successor and CEO for 37 years, AIG became one ...
( Category: Investing June 15,2017 )
The President Is a Sick Man by Matthew Algeo
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Matthew Algeo

E. J. Edwards, photographed around 1870, the year he graduated from Yale. MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES, YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY His friends called him Eddie or Jay, but his byline read, “E. ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides June 15,2017 )
The Fighting Canadians by David Bercuson
epub |eng | | Author:David Bercuson [David J. Bercuson]

JAPAN’S AGGRESSIVE INTENTIONS TOWARD CHINA had first exploded into war in the 1890s, when it gained important trade and territorial concessions from China after a short war. Japan’s ambitions were ...
( Category: Military June 15,2017 )
Our Lady of Guadalupe by Carl Anderson
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-08 | Author:Carl Anderson

THE CHURCH: BRIDE AND MOTHER Within the Church, Mary’s motherhood takes on a concrete character of care. Importantly, however, as a woman espoused to God, Mary does more than point ...
( Category: Catholicism June 15,2017 )
Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz
epub |deu | 2011-02-11 | Author:Karl Philipp Moritz

An Reiser! Wie traurig ist doch das Dasein der Menschen – und dieses nichtige Dasein machen wir uns noch selbst einander unerträglich, statt daß wir durch vertrauliche Geselligkeit uns in ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Ratification by Pauline Maier
epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Pauline Maier [Maier, Pauline]

UPSTAGED It had been a great show. When witnesses looked back, they remembered Henry’s “popular Eloquence” with awe and no apparent annoyance at his having talked on and on, day ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 15,2017 )
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-11 | Author:James D. Hornfischer

Thirty For Captain Hathaway, conning the Heermann through the cantering herd of CVEs amid heavy smoke, spray, and fog en route to joining the torpedo run had been no minor ...
( Category: Military June 15,2017 )
Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-04-10 | Author:Steve Hodel

From the various witnesses who saw Elizabeth Short between January 9 and January 14, 1947, it's clear there was no "missing week" in Elizabeth's life. That week was crisscrossed with ...
( Category: True Crime June 15,2017 )
Kentucky Rising by James A. Ramage
epub |eng | | Author:James A. Ramage

11 The Experience of Slavery Harriet Beecher Stowe studied slavery in Kentucky for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, and one reason the book was a best seller and the drama ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Amazing Tennessee by Theresa Jensen Lacey
epub |eng | 2010-05-17 | Author:Theresa Jensen Lacey

9 Wheelers and Dealers The Chattanooga Choo Choo: An Old Train Station Saved from the Wrecking Ball The first Chattanooga Choo Choo was a passenger train that began running to ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2017 )
Bloody Crimes by James L. Swanson
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:James L. Swanson [James L. Swanson ]

THE NOTORIOUS GURNEY IMAGE, TAKEN INSIDE NEW YORK CITY HALL. EDWARD D. TOWNSEND STANDS AT THE FOOT OF THE COFFIN IN THE ONLY SURVIVING PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN IN DEATH. and ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2017 )

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