epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Andrew Burstein [Burstein, Andrew; Isenberg, Nancy]

“River of Thieves” Jefferson’s handling of the Tripolitan War has to be one of the most instructive episodes in early U.S. foreign policy. Often seen as a diversion, the administration’s ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Raphael, Ray [Raphael, Ray]

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A GLOBAL WAR The French navy and army that enabled the victory at Yorktown were no strangers to their British adversaries. The American Revolution marked the fifth ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:McClanahan, Brion [McClanahan, Brion]

His career took a decided turn for the better after his marriage. Franklin published the Gazette and ran a shop that traded in a variety of commodities, possibly including slaves. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:McClanahan, Brion [McClanahan, Brion]

While Lee, Jefferson, and Madison defended so-called congressional-executive agreements in relation to commerce alone, no member of the founding generation supported unilateral executive agreements, which they would have regarded as ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Thomas A. Foster [Foster, Thomas A.]

Franklin and French Beauties As for Franklin's reputation while a widower in France, today Franklin appears to be the harmless older man and not the threatening sexual deviant. The "French ...

epub |eng | 1905-06-28 | Author:Joyce Chaplin [Chaplin, Joyce]

HIS DECISION to stay in London meant that he remained at the heart of an expanding empire, which daily offered up new opportunities in the sciences and just about everything ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-07 | Author:Susan Jacoby

If many agnostics attempted to conceal the extent of their participation in the women’s movement, they were entirely open about their role in the battle against late-nineteenth-century censorship. There was ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Gordon S. Wood

13 Republican Reforms Despite all the increased violence and rioting, despite all the anxiety over America’s climate, despite all the hand-wringing over so much licentiousness spreading everywhere, by the early ...

mobi |eng | 1995-01-19 | Author:Paine, Thomas & Mark Philp [Paine, Thomas]

Having thus spoken of constitutions generally, as things distinct from actual governments, let us proceed to consider the parts of which a constitution is composed. Opinions differ more on this ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Hartmann, Thom, Sisson, Dan [Hartmann, Thom, Sisson, Dan]

NULLIFICATION MAKES ITS DEBUT Asserting this dire conclusion, the Kentucky legislature then went on to announce that “a nullification” doctrine was the “rightful remedy.” Reaffirming its own “principles” of 1798, ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:Les Standiford

( 17 ) Trial of the Century Until the case of Captain Preston and his men went to trial in Boston in late 1770, the successful defense of the New ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Chris DeRose

State: Total population: Slave population: Virginia (includes Kentucky) 821,287 305,057 Massachusetts (includes Maine) 475,327 None Pennsylvania 434,373 3,737 New York (includes Vermont) 425,659 21,324 North Carolina 393,751 100,572 Maryland 319,728 ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Scott Martelle

The search began in earnest in late June 1899, with a series of letters and inquiries to various French political figures and bureaucrats. Vignaud, a voracious reader of the Parisian ...

mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Nancy Robinson Masters

Henry Knox The “Ox” of the Revolutionary War 1750-1806 He is too valuable to me. —General George Washington Henry Knox looked up from the manual of military strategy he was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-23 | Author:Robert N. Thompson [Thompson, Robert N.]

This monument along County Route 8 west of Peora, West Virginia, marks the location of the Cunningham farm. The sandstone rock comes from the cave in which the Wyandot hid ...