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Brilliant Beacons by Eric Jay Dolin
epub |eng | 2016-11-11 | Author:Eric Jay Dolin

Keeper Elson Small milking his cow at the St. Croix River Lighthouse in Maine. Mule Patty, always good Caused no trouble where she stood Always ready and seldom sick Died ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments November 12,2016 )
Playing Through the Whistle by S.L. Price
epub |eng | 2016-08-25 | Author:S.L. Price

You can’t pinpoint an exact date, because the creating of a cultural icon is usually a matter of accretion, a layering of moments that stack up until, suddenly, everyone understands ...
( Category: State & Local November 11,2016 )
Columbia River Gorge Railroads by D.C. Jesse Burkhardt
epub |eng | 2016-11-06 | Author:D.C. Jesse Burkhardt

TRUCKIN’ BY TRAIN. Union Pacific caboose No. 25832 rests in the UP freight yard at The Dalles, Oregon, in August 1996. The caboose was required for a Union Pacific local ...
( Category: History November 7,2016 )
Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson by William Hazelgrove
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:William Hazelgrove [Hazelgrove, William]

TWENTY-FOUR A SMELLING COMMITTEE 1919 UNCLE SAM WAS NOW IN THE PRESIDENT’S BED. WILSON HADN’T shaved since he had the stroke, and the thin white beard looked like the old ...
( Category: United States November 7,2016 )
Becoming Jane Jacobs by Peter L. Laurence
epub |eng | | Author:Peter L. Laurence [Laurence, Peter L.]

“Pavement Pounders and Olympians” In April 1956, a few months after Jacobs came to understand East Harlem’s plight, she presented an enthusiastically received paper at the first Urban Design Conference ...
( Category: Women in History September 30,2016 )
Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World by Lori Clune
epub |eng | 2016-04-08 | Author:Lori Clune [Clune, Lori]

Conclusion No one emerges from the Rosenberg story unscathed. Administration officials, prosecutors, and defendants all made decisions that undermined their own interests, and there is a plague on all their ...
( Category: Diplomacy September 27,2016 )
Clean House by Tom Fitton
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Fitton

You Can Make a Difference While all of these election cases that Judicial Watch has been involved in could leave Americans depressed about the state of our democracy and the ...
( Category: Executive Branch September 23,2016 )
Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society by Charles Derber & Yale Magrass
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Charles Derber & Yale Magrass [Derber, Charles]

Movies such as American Sniper are intended to encourage the public, the sheep, to become sheepdogs or, if that’s not possible, at least be grateful to the sheepdogs for protecting ...
( Category: United States September 23,2016 )
America First! by Bill Kauffman
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Bill Kauffman

NOTES 1. Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (New York: McGraw Hill, 1968), p. 131. 2. Edward Abbey, “Immigration and Liberal Taboos,” in One Life at a Time, Please (New York: Holt, ...
( Category: History & Theory September 16,2016 )
Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism by Terryl L. Givens & Matthew J. Grow
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Terryl L. Givens & Matthew J. Grow [Givens, Terryl L. & Grow, Matthew J.]

I am Alone!—Alone!—Alone! O Horable!—Yes—Alone—the Punishment—the Hell I always dread—and the one to which I am often doomed. How oft has it been my lot to Spend wearysome days, weeks ...
( Category: United States September 14,2016 )
In Defense of Housing by Peter Marcuse & Peter Marcuse
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marcuse & Peter Marcuse

This is the richest and best developed country in the world. Who made it so? The rich? No. The Police Commissioner? No. The poor made it so. The only cure ...
( Category: Social Policy September 6,2016 )
Hiking through History New York by Randi Minetor
epub |eng | | Author:Randi Minetor

If you get to the end of the road and wish you had had a more challenging hike, you’ll find trailheads to four popular Adirondack hikes just inside the woods. ...
( Category: State & Local September 6,2016 )
Necessary Trouble by Sarah Jaffe
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Sarah Jaffe

IT HAS ONLY BEEN RELATIVELY RECENTLY THAT ABORTION AND GAY rights were assumed to be the major concerns of people of faith. For much of US history, when politicians took ...
( Category: Human Rights September 5,2016 )
Marina and Lee by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Priscilla Johnson McMillan [McMillan, Priscilla Johnson]

— 22 — The Sanction For Marina, the month of February 1963 was far and away the worst in all her married life. Lee had been hitting her ever since ...
( Category: United States September 5,2016 )
The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Laurence Leamer

A Political Prisoner AS ROBERT SHELTON sat at the witness table at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings in October 1965, he looked not so much thin as emaciated, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 4,2016 )

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