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A Short History of the United States by Channing Edward
mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Channing, Edward [Channing, Edward]

THE UNITED STATES IN 1819 Reasons for the purchase of Florida. Jackson invades Florida, 1818. The Florida purchase, 1819. 280. The Florida Treaty, 1819.--While this contest was going on, the ...
( Category: United States July 9,2015 )
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by John H. Elliott
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:John H. Elliott [Elliott, John H.]

The Indians did their best to resist these encroachments and fought back with all the legal weapons at their disposal where they could.57 The legal rights they enjoyed, even if ...
( Category: United States July 9,2015 )
The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein
mobi, epub |ru | 2010-05-23 | Author:Roger Lowenstein

While AIG remained largely out of view, Lehman’s drama had attained the aspect of public theater. Reporters staked out its headquarters, television pundits opined on the odds of its survival, ...
( Category: State & Local June 29,2015 )
Bitter Brew by William Knoedelseder
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Knoedelseder

15 “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?” After bailing his son out of trouble in Tucson, August III made sure the “Busch heir” had a soft landing back home in ...
( Category: United States June 23,2015 )
Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Winkler Adam
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Winkler, Adam [Winkler, Adam]

CHAPTER 8 BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY THE SEATING IN THE SUPREME COURT IS NOT DESIGNED well for spectators. The floor has no pitch, so when the courtroom is crowded you ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 22,2015 )
Playing President by Robert Scheer
epub |eng | 2006-06-21 | Author:Robert Scheer

In his view, it was war, as he stated back in 1951: “The Russians sent their first team, their ace string, here to take us over … We were up ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 22,2015 )
Settled in the Wild by Susan Hand Shetterly
epub |eng | 2010-06-20 | Author:Susan Hand Shetterly

Letting Summer Go Here, in the most northeasterly part of the country, I dropped my fear of snakes. I could pick up any snake I found, and did, and if ...
( Category: State & Local June 21,2015 )
Encyclopedia of the Incas by Urton Gary von Hagen Adriana & Adriana von Hagen
epub |eng, eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Urton, Gary,von Hagen, Adriana & Adriana von Hagen [Urton, Gary & Hagen, Adriana von]

HUACA Often glossed as “sacred place,” huaca is a term used frequently by the Spanish chroniclers to invoke a concept that they clearly understood to be a core principle, or ...
( Category: Native American June 20,2015 )
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by Kahn David
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:Kahn, David [Kahn, David]

18 * ALTHOUGH SECRET WRITING appears in Russia in the simple letter-substitutions of 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts, akin to those of medieval France and Germany, political cryptography seems to have ...
( Category: Linguistics June 20,2015 )
George Washington by Willard Sterne Randall
epub |eng | 2014-02-14 | Author:Willard Sterne Randall [Willard Sterne Randall]

Squatters by the thousands were pouring across the mountains and driving settlers from their cabins. Others did not wait for such legal niceties as deeds and clear titles. Crawford reported ...
( Category: American Revolution June 20,2015 )
Made to Break by Giles Slade
epub |eng | | Author:Giles Slade

Response to the book from the business community was immediate and hostile—a fact that delighted both Packard and his publisher. Because a short period of seventeen months separated the release ...
( Category: History June 19,2015 )
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments by H. P. Albarelli Jr
epub |eng | 2015-06-17 | Author:H. P. Albarelli Jr. [Albarelli, H. P. Jr.]

At the beginning of this period, the illicit trade in refined narcotics depended to a large extent on diverting legally manufactured narcotics. Organized criminals were typically located at the tag ...
( Category: History & Theory June 19,2015 )
Killing the Dream by Gerald Posner
epub |eng | 2015-06-17 | Author:Gerald Posner

27 On the Run Within two minutes of the shooting, Ray had left the scene of the assassination and was on his way toward the Mississippi state line.1 Ray’s story ...
( Category: United States June 19,2015 )
The Black Banners by Soufan Ali H. & Freedman Daniel
epub | | 2015-06-17 | Author:Soufan, Ali H. & Freedman, Daniel [Freedman, Daniel]

It inspires horror in the harbor and in the open sea. She sails into the waves Flanked by arrogance, haughtiness and false power. To her doom she moves slowly A ...
( Category: United States June 19,2015 )
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Russell Jan Jarboe
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Russell, Jan Jarboe [Russell, Jan Jarboe]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The False Passports On the morning of January 20, 1945, while Ingrid was still at sea on the MS Gripsholm, a fourteen-year-old girl, Irene Hasenberg, slept on a ...
( Category: World War II June 19,2015 )

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