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Education of Henry Adams by Adams Henry; Nadel Ira;
epub |eng | 1999-12-05 | Author:Adams, Henry; Nadel, Ira;

CHAPTER XX FAILURE (1871) FAR back in childhood, among its earliest memories, Henry Adams could recall his first visit to Harvard College. He must have been nine years old when ...
( Category: United States December 6,2016 )
1916 Portraits and Lives by James Quinn
epub |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:James Quinn

Eoin MacNeill 1867–1945 Eoin (John) MacNeill, Gaelic scholar and nationalist politician, was born 15 May 1867 in Glenarm, Co. Antrim, sixth of eight children of Archibald MacNeill, baker, sailor and ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions December 5,2016 )
A History of American Sports in 100 Objects by Cait Murphy
epub |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Cait Murphy

1975 PRE’S ROCK In his too-brief career, Steve Prefontaine did the impossible: he made distance running cool to Americans. At the time of his death in 1975, the James Dean ...
( Category: United States December 4,2016 )
When San Francisco Burned: A Photographic Memoir of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1927 by Gist Doug
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Gist, Doug [Gist, Doug]

“Observatory, Strawberry Hill . . .” A spectacular scene of ruination in Golden Gate Park. Note the decorative post at right, uprooted and standing at an angle. (Worden) “S.F. fire ...
( Category: State & Local December 4,2016 )
The Politics of Resentment by Jeremy Engels
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Engels

Blood Libel and Imagined Insults: Neoliberalism’s Violent Rhetoric Vigorous and spirited public debates during elections are among our most cherished traditions. And after the election, we shake hands and get ...
( Category: Civics & Citizenship December 3,2016 )
First in the Homes of His Countrymen: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination by Brandt Lydia Mattice
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Brandt, Lydia Mattice [Brandt, Lydia Mattice]

Fig. 39. Illustration of the evolution of Mount Vernon, 1938. Fig. 40. West parlor, Mount Vernon, Frances Benjamin Johnston (photographer), 1937, in American Architect and Architecture (February 1938). Although Williams ...
( Category: History December 3,2016 )
Creating Carmen Miranda by Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez [Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn]

Carmen Miranda wearing Yvonne Wood’s exquisite creation for her final number of Greenwich Village (1944). Courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library In Carmen Miranda’s last film for Twentieth Century-Fox, If ...
( Category: Brazil December 3,2016 )
The American Fisherman by Willie Robertson
epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Willie Robertson

Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby, America’s first female fishing superstar. (Maine Historical Society) For the next Sportsmen’s Exposition at Madison Square Garden, in 1896, Crosby staged a bigger extravaganza. She even ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks December 1,2016 )
Midnight in Broad Daylight by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
epub |eng | 2015-10-23 | Author:Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

20 Taking New Guinea Harry fumed in the briefing tent at Finschhafen, New Guinea. His next landing would be with the 163rd RCT of the 41st Division. The 163rd members ...
( Category: Asia December 1,2016 )
Eyeing the Red Storm by Robert M. Dienesch
epub |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:Robert M. Dienesch [Dienesch, Robert M.]

Film Return, Project II-A, and the CIA’s CORONA (November 1957–February 1958) Even as Lockheed was drawing up plans for expediting the WS-117L, forces beyond its control were eclipsing its efforts. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight November 30,2016 )
Revolutionary Dissent by Stephen D. Solomon
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Stephen D. Solomon

8 The Planter After spending the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, where he had presided over the drafting of the new Constitution, George Washington left for his estate at Mount ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 29,2016 )
Food City by Joy Santlofer
epub |eng | | Author:Joy Santlofer

Pauline’s attitude obviously changed by 1908, when she sued to receive her fair share of the estate and to remove her mother from management of the brewery, where most of ...
( Category: State & Local November 27,2016 )
When the United States Invaded Russia by Carl J. Richard
epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Carl J. Richard [Richard, Carl J.]

Chapter Five In Search of a Russian Policy [Russia] was the Banquo’s ghost sitting at every Council Table. —Herbert Hoover, regarding the Paris Peace Conference.1 In the first half of ...
( Category: Americas November 27,2016 )
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bulls: A Decade-by-Decade History
epub |eng | 2016-10-16 | Author:Chicago Tribune Staff [Chicago Tribune Staff]

Scottie Pippen helps Michael Jordan stay on his feet during Game 5 of the NBA Finals on June 11, 1997 in Utah. Stricken with stomach problems, Jordan still managed to ...
( Category: State & Local November 25,2016 )
Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas L. Friedman

The Holocene of Geopolitics It is easy to forget today just how much the global order that settled on our planet after World War II and lasted through the post–Cold ...
( Category: Democracy November 25,2016 )

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