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1493 by Charles C. Mann
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Charles C. Mann

Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 7,2015 )
Soul of a Slave: Madison Washington and the Creole Mutiny by Charles Boyle
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Charles Boyle [Boyle, Charles]

Madison was the first to crawl down the ladder. He was impatient to get moving; to get to Canada as fast as he could and then send someone for Milinda ...
( Category: United States March 6,2015 )
The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-21 | Author:David Halberstam

c r o s s i n g t h e p a r a l l e l a n d h e a d i n g n ...
( Category: United States March 6,2015 )
The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century by Thomas L. Friedman
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-07-24 | Author:Thomas L. Friedman [Friedman, Thomas L.]

SIX The Untouchables o if the flattening of the world is largely (but not entirely) unstoppable, and holds out the potential to be as beneficial to American society as a ...
( Category: Economics March 6,2015 )
Two Souls Indivisible by James S. Hirsch
epub |eng | | Author:James S. Hirsch [Hirsch, James S.]

9. The Hanoi March As the summer approached, the Hanoi media increased their attacks on the POWs. They had always been called "criminals," "air pirates," or "mercenaries," but now they ...
( Category: Military March 4,2015 )
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Henry Wiencek

12 The Double Aspect Mary Hemings Bell had the good fortune, and the misfortune, to be a Hemings. As a Hemings, she had autonomy, which allowed her to leave Monticello ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 4,2015 )
An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Purdum Todd S
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Purdum, Todd S. [Purdum, Todd S.]

PART THREE THE SENATE 8 You Listen to Dirksen! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1964 AFTER LYNDON JOHNSON’S WEEKLY White House breakfast meeting with the Democratic congressional leadership, his old friend Hubert ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 4,2015 )
The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York by Caro Robert A
epub |eng | 1975-03-03 | Author:Caro, Robert A

Other reformers would later describe their overriding emotion at Moses' philosophy and tactics as "shock." They had no justification for such an emotion. There was nothing new about that philosophy ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
The Real Custer by James S Robbins
epub |eng | | Author:James S Robbins [Robbins, James S.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE COURT-MARTIAL The Custers arrived at Fort Riley in late October 1866 to join the newly formed 7th Cavalry regiment. George was disappointed at not being named regimental commander; ...
( Category: American Civil War March 4,2015 )
Six Miles to Charleston by Bruce Orr
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Bruce Orr

Lavinia was more concerned with her life than her soul and put her faith in the governor’s pardon more than God’s mercy. Courtesy of Kayla Orr. There are many opinions ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
My Old Neighborhood Remembered by Avery Corman
epub |eng | | Author:Avery Corman

* * * SCHOOLYARD BASKETBALL * * * Schoolyard basketball was played continuously, on scorching summer days and on courts cleared of snow, played by day and by night with ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM by Breanne Fahs
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Breanne Fahs

THE “LOWLY TOAD” Valerie spent most of the following month directing her hostilities toward Maurice Girodias, whom she continued to portray as manipulative, cruel, self-serving, and the epitome of why ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 4,2015 )
Within Arm's Length: A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President by Dan Emmett
epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Dan Emmett [Emmett, Dan]

FROM CAT TO THE SHIFT When PPD absorbed CAT in 1992, everyone on CAT became members of PPD. While few of us wanted to be adopted by the detail and ...
( Category: Law Enforcement March 4,2015 )
I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York by Jory John
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jory John

ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF “ART WITHIN ART” Now imagine, if you will, that this artists rendering is inside another artists rendering. And the artist who created itwithout getting too graphic is ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
Making War to Keep Peace by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-03 | Author:Jeane J. Kirkpatrick [Jeane J. Kirkpatrick]

Safe Areas Established Although the special rapporteur had explicitly recommended the establishment of security zones in Bosnia and Herzegovina in November 1992, nearly six months passed before the Security Council ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 4,2015 )

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