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American Witches by Susan Fair
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Susan Fair

Well, that was unexpected. The Mathers’ baby had been cut open and examined. The first official autopsy performed in America, on little Elizabeth Kelly in 1662, was most likely Mather’s ...
( Category: Wicca August 24,2016 )
67 Shots by Howard Means
epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Howard Means

The dearth of compassion often came with a caveat. “This is all very tragic,” a husband and wife wrote to the Record-Courier, “yet if this is what it takes to ...
( Category: State & Local August 21,2016 )
Central Florida's World War II Veterans by Bob Grenier
epub |eng | 2016-08-18 | Author:Bob Grenier

The Apopka Veterans Memorial is located in Kit Nelson Park, which is situated off Park Avenue between First Street and Orange Street. This monument, created by Preston Willingham, was donated ...
( Category: Veterans August 19,2016 )
The Free State of Jones and the Echo of the Black Horn by Thomas Jefferson Knight
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Thomas Jefferson Knight

CHAPTER 9 Bold Ventures As soon as the officers of the company were sworn in, and each had pledged himself to fight and die before surrendering to any man, a ...
( Category: United States August 19,2016 )
Haunted Jacksonville: History and Hauntings of the "Athens of the West by Lisa Taylor Horton
epub |eng | 2014-10-11 | Author:Lisa Taylor Horton [Horton, Lisa Taylor]

( Category: State & Local August 19,2016 )
Shot All to Hell: Bad Ass Outlaws, Gunfighters, and Law Men of the Old West by Bad Ass Outlaws- Gunfighters- & Law Men of the Old West
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Bad Ass Outlaws- Gunfighters- & Law Men of the Old West

Robert A. “Clay” Allison Clay Allison’s “trigger finger was the busiest in the early 80s,” according to the Albuquerque Morning Journal. “His record was twenty-one dead men, whose graves were ...
( Category: United States August 19,2016 )
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Gonzalez Juan
epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Gonzalez, Juan [Gonzalez, Juan]

TABLE 6 STATES WITH MORE THAN 40% MINORITY POPULATION IN 200854 Hispanic political leaders who fully grasp this demographic transformation, and who refuse to fall into the ever-recurring black-white divide ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies August 14,2016 )
The First Congress by Fergus M. Bordewich
epub |eng | | Author:Fergus M. Bordewich

CHAPTER 16 A Southern Position I feel ashamed of the body to which I belong. —Benjamin Goodhue, June 1790 By June, the Pennsylvanians were losing their once-smug self-confidence, having realized ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 8,2016 )
Blood and Smoke by Charles Leerhsen
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Leerhsen

IT IS TEMPTING to think of Carl Fisher as now standing at a crossroads. Certainly a more normal person after launching an auto racing speedway and then winding up in ...
( Category: State & Local August 7,2016 )
The New York City Draft Riots of 1863: The History of the Notorious Insurrection at the Height of the Civil War by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2016-06-18 | Author:Charles River Editors

Chapter 4: Schemes of Plunder “The mob has made several demonstrations upon the gas houses which they seem very anxious to destroy in order that they may the better carry ...
( Category: Civil War August 5,2016 )
The New York City Blackout of 1977: The History of the Power Failure that Led to Looting and Arson Across the Big Apple by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Charles River Editors

Chapter 4: Pain Begets Kindness “In the commonwealth of darkness, New Yorkers rediscovered their kinship with one another, and celebrated it. In a downtown high-rise, a blind woman descended to ...
( Category: United States August 5,2016 )
The Mexican-American War: The History of the Controversial War that Resulted in the Annexation of the Southwest and California by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:Charles River Editors

A picture of Lincoln in the 1840s To prevent Whig opposition from gaining steam or adopting any other such anti-war measures, Polk had the declaration of war added to an ...
( Category: United States August 5,2016 )
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 )
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 )

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