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Spooky South by S. E. Schlosser
epub |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:S. E. Schlosser

22 Goggle-Eyed Jim The Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia He was a notorious scoundrel and a horse thief. And he was the bane of my existence. Goggle-Eyed Jim they called him. ...
( Category: State & Local August 3,2016 )
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Elizabeth Hinton [Hinton, Elizabeth]

PUNISHING “POTENTIAL CRIMINALS” AND “DELINQUENTS” As the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act successfully removed white youth from penal institutions and provided them with rehabilitative services, it vastly expanded the ...
( Category: Social Policy July 24,2016 )
The Great Call-Up: The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution by Charles H. Harris & Louis R. Sadler
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Charles H. Harris & Louis R. Sadler [Harris, Charles H.]

Chapter 13 El Paso El Paso was the principal National Guard concentration point on the border. While the Brownsville District contained more troops, some fifty thousand, they were distributed all ...
( Category: State & Local July 19,2016 )
Billings Food by Stella Fong
epub |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Stella Fong

“The Bandit Burger” with jalapeños, bacon, pepperjack cheese, barbecue sauce, spicy mayonnaise, tomato and lettuce from the Burger Dive. The Burger Dive has been serving Billings since 2010 with premium ...
( Category: State & Local July 19,2016 )
Unruly Equality by Andrew Cornell
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Cornell

THE ANARCHIST PACIFISTS AND LIBERATION MAGAZINE As indicated by chapters 5 and 6, the experience of spending years in Civilian Public Service camps and federal penitentiaries for refusal to join ...
( Category: Anarchism July 18,2016 )
Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde by John Boessenecker
epub, azw |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:John Boessenecker [Boessenecker, John]

Hamer playing with his son Frank, Jr., about 1921. Travis Hamer personal collection Valls’s efforts to get a conviction were in vain. Despite the fact that Roberts had been murdered ...
( Category: United States July 18,2016 )
Eye of the Sixties by Judith E. Stein
epub |eng | | Author:Judith E. Stein

15 WRONG MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME It’s a wonder that the Green had a fifth year at all. “I don’t know, Jim. I just don’t know … I don’t ...
( Category: United States July 17,2016 )
Whisper Not by Benny Golson
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Benny Golson [Golson, Benny]

CHAPTER 23 Philly Joe Jones I FIRST SAW Philadelphia drummer Joe Jones play in Beryl Booker’s trio in 1944, when I was fifteen years old. That was about a year ...
( Category: State & Local July 13,2016 )
Bush by Jean Edward Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Jean Edward Smith [Smith, Jean Edward]

* * * I. Powell’s views were more than vindicated in October 2004, when Charles Duelfer, who had succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Study Group, submitted a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 11,2016 )
Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City by Leslie Day
epub |eng | 2015-07-10 | Author:Leslie Day

VIREOS THERE ARE 50 SPECIES of vireo, all native to the new world: North and South America. They are small, with short, thick bills, slightly hooked at the tip, which ...
( Category: Wildlife July 11,2016 )
Bobby Kennedy
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Larry Tye

Had he ended on this emotional high point it would have been enough. It also would have had the world speculating—as many did anyway—whether, if JFK was the dead hero ...
( Category: United States July 10,2016 )
Formations of United States Colonialism by Alyosha Goldstein
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Alyosha Goldstein [Goldstein, Alyosha]

THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA IN AMERICAN SAMOA Developmental frameworks as applied to Samoa have historically turned on a mythical narrative of modernity: the possibility of modern transformation of the island and ...
( Category: Native American Studies July 9,2016 )
Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly
epub |eng | 2016-05-05 | Author:Jack Kelly

It worked. “All Rochester was moved that winter,” a resident remembered. “You could not go upon the streets, and hear any conversations, except on religion.” Religion became the rage. Every ...
( Category: State & Local July 8,2016 )
Breaking Rockefeller by Peter B. Doran
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Peter B. Doran

CHAPTER 13 Reversals of Fortune Inside the offices of 26 Broadway, there were many secrets. The perpetually guarded Rockefeller had fortified Standard with hidden facts ever since the earliest days ...
( Category: Oil & Energy July 8,2016 )
TWA 800 by Jack Cashill
epub |eng | 2016-05-22 | Author:Jack Cashill

Chapter: FOURTEEN MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON In late November 2002, I was strolling the concrete banks of Brush Creek, a channelized waterway that runs through the heart of Kansas ...
( Category: History July 8,2016 )

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