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Lincoln's Gamble by Todd Brewster
epub |eng | | Author:Todd Brewster

XI. WEAKENED IT WOULD BE HARD to reconcile any of the many stalwart portrayals of Abraham Lincoln, anything from the pen of Carl Sandburg, say, or from the big-screen representations ...
( Category: American Civil War January 29,2015 )
Morning of Fire by Scott Ridley
epub |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:Scott Ridley [Ridley, Scott]

AS KENDRICK’S BOAT DREW ALONGSIDE, the Columbia fired another salute, and the men gave three cheers. Here was the captain who had remained on the unknown side of the world ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding January 29,2015 )
Still Life in Harlem by Eddy L. Harris
epub |eng | | Author:Eddy L. Harris

My father wants to know if I regret the life I have lived, wants to know too, I suppose, if I regret missing the life I never had. At first ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Alamo Traces by Thomas Ricks Lindley
epub |eng | 2003-01-28 | Author:Thomas Ricks Lindley

Simply put, the Louis Rose data is not an independent verification of the Rose story because Blake never proved Louis Rose and Moses Rose were the same person. Still, Lord ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Pen and Ink Witchcraft by Calloway Colin G
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Calloway, Colin G.

FIGURE 6.2 George Bent and his Cheyenne wife, Magpie, 1867. Magpie gave birth to a daughter on the opening day of the Medicine Lodge council. (Courtesy of History Colorado, Scan ...
( Category: Colonial Period January 29,2015 )
The Lion in Autumn by Frank Fitzpatrick
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Fitzpatrick

After Robinson left the field, Paterno immediately told Galen Hall to eliminate most of the plays they had drawn up that week. Then, surprisingly, he turned not to Morelli, who ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Liquor, Lust and the Law by Aaron Chapman
epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:Aaron Chapman

Sandy King rides as Lady Godiva, mid-1970s. But King has nothing but fond memories of the club which elicit her quick laugh and vivid recollections of the nights she worked ...
( Category: Province & Local January 29,2015 )
Cagney by Cagney
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:James Cagney [Cagney, James]

6 Psychologically I needed no preparation for Yankee Doodle Dandy, or professionally either. I didn’t have to pretend to be a song-and-dance man. I was one. In just about every ...
( Category: Reference January 29,2015 )
A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1 by Allan H. Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Allan H. Meltzer

At its March 3 meeting the Federal Reserve Board discussed the growing number of states with bank holidays. Miller advocated the use of clearinghouse certificates, but he opposed any plan ...
( Category: Economic History January 29,2015 )
The Edge of Maine by Geoffrey Wolff
epub |eng | 2005-01-28 | Author:Geoffrey Wolff

Sometime around 1820, William Bradstreet came up the Kennebec in his little 125-ton brig Orion. It was late in the fall, and she was frozen in at Dearborn’s wharf in ...
( Category: New England January 29,2015 )
Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim
epub |eng | 2008-12-20 | Author:Pamela Grim [GRIM, PAMELA]

Two Dr. Daiquiri patients in one day, I thought sourly as I stomped back down the hall. And one an aspirin overdose no less. Back in the acute room my ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
The American Girl's Handy Book by Lina Beard & Adelia B. Beard
epub |ukr | 1898-01-28 | Author:Lina Beard & Adelia B. Beard

Painting from Notes is not as difficult as one might imagine. With a little practice it is easily learned. The following directions will tell how to paint a sunset on ...
( Category: Crafts for Children January 29,2015 )
The Battle Of New Orleans Reconsidered by Curtis Manning
epub |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Curtis Manning [Manning, Curtis]

Le Chevalier Anne-Louis de Tousard would not have much time to reconsider his boast that “We are all Americans.” He left New Orleans in 1816 and died in Paris the ...
( Category: Civil War January 29,2015 )
Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West & Mary Lynn Kotz
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:J. B. West & Mary Lynn Kotz [West, J. B.]

2 AFTER LUNCH, THE KENNEDY children were bedded down, the maids and houseman scuttled away, and silence reigned upstairs at the White House. For the President of the United States, ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
The Yanks Are Coming! by H. W. Crocker III
epub |eng | | Author:H. W. Crocker, III [Crocker, H. W.]

“A MAN WHO WAS GOING TO BE CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY ONE DAY” Bearing a recommendation from the superintendent at VMI and from New York senator John Wise ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )

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