Americas
epub |eng | 2016-04-23 | Author:Stephen Coss

18 POINTED SATYR Late on the afternoon of December 2, 1721, several hours after what Samuel Sewall called “a great Funeral” for the deceased Boston politician William Hutchinson, a letter ...
( Category: Colonial Period April 25,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

JACKIE SPOKE IN a childlike whisper of a voice (Kennedy’s sisters called her “the Deb” behind her back), but she was tough as nails and would cut people off if ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 25,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Duncan Clark

eBay Comes to China In the fall of 2001, eBay CEO Meg Whitman made a trip to Shanghai to meet Bo. In March 2002, EachNet once again surprised the market ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Gil Reavill

14 The Watchdogs SUNDAY, THREE DAYS AFTER THE BUST-UP of the summit, Ed Croswell made another foray to the big stone compound at the end of McFall Road. All was ...
( Category: State & Local April 25,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Timothy Egan

At camp, the deflated band made plans to return home. War was horrible and, it was now clear, would not be short. The day after the battle, Lincoln signed a ...
( Category: United States April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Chandonnet

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS New foods affected not only diet and health but also trade, and trade between Old and New Worlds was significant. A letter of November 5, 1626 to ...
( Category: Colonial Period April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kim MacQuarrie

Early in the morning on the seventh day of her journey from Cusco, at 16,200 feet on the lower flank of Ampato volcano, Juanita woke suddenly with a start. She’d ...
( Category: Bolivia April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Nathalia Holt

Punch cards used by the women to write programs Most of the computers had never used a typewriter—only secretaries at JPL used those—and didn’t even know how to type. But ...
( Category: Scientists April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew P. Mayo

In the gold rush days of the Old West, venues of accommodation were often rather funky affairs, more suitable digs for the high numbers of rats that lived in them ...
( Category: State & Local April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Chris Enss

Within six months of opening, Luzena had earned a substantial amount of money, and the Wilson’s Hotel had earned the reputation of being the best on the route from Sacramento ...
( Category: State & Local April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Brandus

Beyond changing the White House, Theodore Roosevelt changed the way in which Americans saw the presidency itself. It was seen, more than ever, as a center of great and unmatched ...
( Category: History & Theory April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael M. Greenburg

Chapter 10 Outrage and Allegations GEORGE LITTLE could not believe his eyes. Hours earlier, he had brazenly scolded Commodore Dudley Saltonstall on the deck of the Warren, pressing him to ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Deepa Iyer

When South Asians, Arabs, Muslims, and Sikhs center themselves firmly in a collective racial identity, challenge the myth of cultural exceptionalism and disrupt the racial order, we can transform our ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:David S. Kidder

ADDITIONAL FACTS 1. The number of pieces written by each composer went down in the romantic period, as compared to the classical, but the length of the pieces went up. ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources April 23,2016 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2016-04-21 | Author:Oliver Stone

Eisenhower and Dulles greet South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem at Washington National Airport. American leaders had maneuvered to replace the French puppet Bao Dai with Diem, who wasted no ...
( Category: United States April 23,2016 )