epub, mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Matthew Spalding & Patrick J. Garrity & Daniel J. Boorstin [Spalding, Matthew & Garrity, Patrick J. & Boorstin, Daniel J.]

Mather’s work became a survey of diseases. One of the proposals for its printing called it “An Essay upon the Common Maladies of Mankind: offering, first, The Sentiments of Piety, ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Alan Taylor [Taylor, Alan]

Chapter 6 West Indies and Carolina Although few New Englanders owned slaves, their farms and ships serviced the slave-based economy of the West Indies: a set of fertile subtropical islands ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

Over a decade after the Treaty of Alliance was signed, in the early days of the French Revolution, a forlorn Louis XVI would answer a letter from his Indian ally ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-06 | Author:Scott Weidensaul [Weidensaul, Scott]

PART III “WE THAT CAME OUT OF THIS GROUND” Chapter 8 “One Head One Mouth, and One Heart” When the winter ice and snow melted, the runoff from thousands of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-02 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

◆ A chest reputed to have been brought aboard the Mayflower by William Brewster. About the same time as Robinson’s passing, a new settlement was started just to the north ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Robert Middlekauff

Perhaps only in a revolutionary war do soldiers go into battle with a conception of a “righteous cause” competing with an image of their own necks in a halter. These ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

THE FIRST CONFRONTATION By the end of October, some observers already feared that when the tea arrived, a mob would board the ships and either burn their cargo or throw ...

mobi |eng | 1989-09-06 | Author:Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

X “A Successful Battle May Give Us America” IF THE FRENCH did not recognize the significance to themselves of what they were doing in aiding the rebels, neither did the ...

mobi |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Barton, David [Barton, David]

Very simply, the courts regularly acknowledged and incorporated God’s standards in policies on families;91 and until 1962-63, they similarly applied Biblical principles to the other three categories as well. Did ...

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 ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Winston S. Churchill

At this decisive moment England’s monarchy might well have conformed to the absolutism which was becoming general throughout Europe. Events however took a different turn. The King was by no ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Milton, Giles [Milton, Giles]

“A wyfe ought to be chaste, pacyent and sober,” reads one Elizabethan guide for housewives. She also needed to be hardworking, for her daily routine included baking, brewing, harvesting, spinning, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Miles Harvey

He was urged by the king, to whom he related the whole affair on returning to France, to put it down on paper, and this he carried out faithfully in ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:Smith, Adam [Smith, Adam]

CHAPTER V . OF BOUNTIES. Bounties upon exportation are, in Great Britain, frequently petitioned for, and sometimes granted, to the produce of particular branches of domestic industry. By means of ...