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Why America Needs a Left by Eli Zaretsky
epub |eng | | Author:Eli Zaretsky

Conclusion The American Left Today When American history is understood as it should be, as a series of deep, successive structural crises – slavery, industry, and global finance – and ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 4,2016 )
How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Winifred Gallagher

• • • STEAM POWER HAD IMPROVED postal service for most Americans by the late nineteenth century, but others, particularly in the western outback, remained beyond the pale. Letters that ...
( Category: Colonial Period August 4,2016 )
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
epub |eng | | Author:Jesmyn Ward

Da Art of Storytellin’ (a Prequel) KIESE LAYMON From six in the morning until five in the afternoon, five days a week, for thirty years, my grandmama Catherine’s fingers, palms, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism August 4,2016 )
Moon Coastal Maine by Hilary Nangle
epub |eng | 2016-08-02 | Author:Hilary Nangle

Casual and Fine Dining Relax and savor the views over Penobscot Bay along with a fine wine and dinner at The Captain’s Table (127 E. Main St./Rte. 1, Searsport, 207/548-1104, ...
( Category: New England August 3,2016 )
Spooky South by S. E. Schlosser
epub |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:S. E. Schlosser

22 Goggle-Eyed Jim The Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia He was a notorious scoundrel and a horse thief. And he was the bane of my existence. Goggle-Eyed Jim they called him. ...
( Category: State & Local August 3,2016 )
Braving It by Campbell James
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Campbell, James

I woke in the middle of the night, turned on my headlamp, and pointed it at my watch: 2:00 a.m. The fire was out and the tent was cold and ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 1,2016 )
The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights by Aiello Thomas;
epub |eng | | Author:Aiello, Thomas;

FRANCIS JACKSON GARRISON (Garrison was the son of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and Oswald Garrison Villard’s uncle.) The Cedars, [Lexington, Mass.] April 9, 1905 Dear Oswald [Garrison Villard]: I return ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 1,2016 )
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Elizabeth Hinton [Hinton, Elizabeth]

PUNISHING “POTENTIAL CRIMINALS” AND “DELINQUENTS” As the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act successfully removed white youth from penal institutions and provided them with rehabilitative services, it vastly expanded the ...
( Category: Social Policy July 24,2016 )
Mexico by Michael D. Coe
epub |eng | | Author:Michael D. Coe

104 God L, the Maya god of merchants, from a mural at Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala. He is here given the non-Maya name “4 Dog.” To the right is his cacaxtli or ...
( Category: Americas July 20,2016 )
Constitutional Law (Aspen Casebook) by Erwin Chemerinsky
epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Erwin Chemerinsky [Chemerinsky, Erwin]

LAWS THAT PROVIDE A BENEFIT TO SOME NONMARITAL CHILDREN No similar bright-line rule exists when the law provides a benefit to some nonmarital children that it denies to other nonmarital ...
( Category: Constitutional Law July 19,2016 )
The Forest People by Colin Turnbull
epub |eng | 2016-07-17 | Author:Colin Turnbull

9 The World of the Village I FOUND THE FIRST WEEK back in the village difficult and depressing. During the day the air was hot and dry, and filled with ...
( Category: Native American Studies July 19,2016 )
The Great Call-Up: The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution by Charles H. Harris & Louis R. Sadler
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Charles H. Harris & Louis R. Sadler [Harris, Charles H.]

Chapter 13 El Paso El Paso was the principal National Guard concentration point on the border. While the Brownsville District contained more troops, some fifty thousand, they were distributed all ...
( Category: State & Local July 19,2016 )
Billings Food by Stella Fong
epub |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Stella Fong

“The Bandit Burger” with jalapeños, bacon, pepperjack cheese, barbecue sauce, spicy mayonnaise, tomato and lettuce from the Burger Dive. The Burger Dive has been serving Billings since 2010 with premium ...
( Category: State & Local July 19,2016 )
Unruly Equality by Andrew Cornell
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Cornell

THE ANARCHIST PACIFISTS AND LIBERATION MAGAZINE As indicated by chapters 5 and 6, the experience of spending years in Civilian Public Service camps and federal penitentiaries for refusal to join ...
( Category: Anarchism July 18,2016 )
The Complete Works of Henry James by Henry James
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-10 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

[Illustration: RAVENNA PINETA.] 1873. THE SAINT’S AFTERNOON AND OTHERS Before and above all was the sense that, with the narrow limits of past adventure, I had never yet had such ...
( Category: Short Stories July 18,2016 )

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