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Show Me a Hero by Lisa Belkin
epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Lisa Belkin

Part Two The Rebuilding 1992 The Lottery By twos and threes, with fingers crossed and lucky charms palmed, hundreds of people stepped from the darkness of School Street and into ...
( Category: United States September 1,2015 )
Engaging the Past by Alison Landsberg
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Alison Landsberg [Landsberg, Alison]

3 Encountering Contradiction Reality History TV It suddenly sunk in in a way that it hadn’t until then that I was going along and being an imperialist. . . . ...
( Category: United States August 29,2015 )
Banned in Boston by Neil Miller
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-26 | Author:Neil Miller [Miller, Neil]

Bostonians were of various minds as to what was occurring. In a joint statement, the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly and Little, Brown, and Company—two of the leading Boston publishing ...
( Category: State & Local August 27,2015 )
The Tastemaker by Edward White
epub |eng | | Author:Edward White

A caricature of Carl Van Vechten as a black man by Miguel Covarrubias, entitled A Prediction That positive distinction had a crucial effect on his relationships with Harlemites. Behind his ...
( Category: State & Local August 23,2015 )
Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spaceman by Neal Thompson
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Neal Thompson [Thompson, Neal]

At times Henri Landwirth felt caught between his two favorite astronauts: Alan Shepard and John Glenn. He knew they were two very different men, but there were qualities in each ...
( Category: United States August 23,2015 )
The Phantom Killer: Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders: The Story of a Town in Terror by James Presley
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:James Presley

TEXARKANA CHILD RACKETEER GANG DISCLOSED AS ‘FAGANS’ ARE SOUGHT Three boys were held in the Bowie County holdover jail on Main Street after their arrest for theft and possession of ...
( Category: United States August 23,2015 )
A History of New York in 101 Objects by Sam Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sam Roberts

● 54 ● “To City” Sign The “Outer” Boroughs The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, “is always the city seen for ...
( Category: State & Local August 19,2015 )
George Marshall by Debi Unger
epub |eng | | Author:Debi Unger

CHAPTER 9 JAPAN-CHINA The three months between the two “V-Days” were fraught with challenges for Marshall. But foremost, of course, was how to defeat Japan. By mid-1945 the end was ...
( Category: World War II August 15,2015 )
The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg
mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Jacob Weisberg

AS FAR AS ROVE was concerned, Bush’s reelection as governor was merely a warm-up drill for the presidential campaign that would begin immediately afterward. Victory was a foregone conclusion, so ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 5,2015 )
Grunge Seattle by Justin Henderson
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Justin Henderson

chapter 4 the end of the innocence The End of the Innocence, the title of a multimillion selling 1989 album by rock star (and former Eagle) Don Henley, aptly describes ...
( Category: State & Local August 2,2015 )
Thomas Jefferson Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 31,2015 )
The Mind of the Master Class by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
epub |eng | 2005-10-17 | Author:Elizabeth Fox-Genovese [Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth]

1 William A. Smith, Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery (New York, 1969 [1856]), 189. 2 Pinckney quoted in James Turner, Without God, Without Creed: The Origin of ...
( Category: State & Local July 31,2015 )
Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery (Religion in America) by Stephen R. Haynes
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephen R. Haynes [Haynes, Stephen R.]

Blyden declared that because God had so faithfully fulfilled Noah's prediction of enlargement to Japheth, the realization of the later promise to Ham (in Psalm 68) was inevitable as well." ...
( Category: Christianity July 31,2015 )
America's Secret Jihad by Stuart Wexler
epub |eng | | Author:Stuart Wexler [Wexler, Stuart]

10 THE END OF AN AGE the FRAGMENTATION of the RADICAL RIGHT in the 1970S “Now this is a long fight. It is a hard fight,” said J.B. Stoner in ...
( Category: United States July 30,2015 )
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington by Jonathan Horn
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Jonathan Horn

PART IV Postbellum CHAPTER THIRTEEN Washington and Lee With a sword at his side, Robert E. Lee rode to Richmond. On the afternoon of April 15, crowds cheered his arrival. ...
( Category: Civil War July 28,2015 )

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