epub |eng | | Author:Michael M. Greenburg

Chapter 10 Outrage and Allegations GEORGE LITTLE could not believe his eyes. Hours earlier, he had brazenly scolded Commodore Dudley Saltonstall on the deck of the Warren, pressing him to ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Sehat

CHAPTER SIX The Montage Effect In the sweltering August of 1963, Washington, D.C., braced for an epic riot. Plans were for hundreds of thousands of black protesters to descend on ...

epub |eng | 2007-04-09 | Author:James R. Gaines

All through 1788, in each of the thirteen states, Americans debated the strengths and weaknesses of their new Constitution, whose agenda was in some ways identical to the one emerging ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Margaret A. Oppenheimer

In the meantime her tussle with Stephen’s relatives went on. Thanks to continued stalling on her part, including an unsuccessful appeal of the decision that barred her from discharging the ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Paul Collins [Collins, Paul]

AARON BURR WAS NOT IMPRESSED BY THE CASE AGAINST HIS client. “Gentlemen of the jury,” he began, as he arose and solemnly paced the packed courtroom. “I know the unexampled ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-20 | Author:Conrad Jones

CHAPTER 27 Antonia Barrat groaned internally as they drove through the gates of Canning Place. It was a daunting thought that once they had her inside that soulless building she ...

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 |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Joseph Cummins [Cummins, Joseph]

2nd — RESOLVED, that no duty or taxes can constitutionally be opposed on us, but by our own consent given personally, or by our own representatives. 3rd — RESOLVED, that ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler [Heidler, David S.]

Newspaper and pamphlet attacks had stepped up over the summer of 1792. Because Hamilton and Jefferson believed the other responsible for starting the public phase of the conflict, each thought ...

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 |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Zane Grey

Chapter Eleven THE fortification of secret marriage far exceeded Virginia’s vacillating hopes. For while making up her mind to this grave and uncertain step, she had been both inspired and ...

epub |eng | 2004-10-31 | Author:Ferling, John

10 “The Boisterous Sea of Liberty” The Campaign of 1800 CAMPAIGNING IN 1796 had not begun until Washington announced his intention to retire, about a hundred days before election day. ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Stephen Case

CHAPTER 13 A Capture and an Escape The weekend arrived at Robinson House with a Saturday warm and fair.390 Joshua Hett Smith arrived there, too, and was both warmly received ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Walter R. Borneman

Chapter 16 Spreading the News As uncertain and confused as things were on the rebel side in the first few weeks after April 19, rebel leaders recognized the importance of ...

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 ...