State & Local
epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles E. Cobb [Cobb, Charles E.]

A Civil War–era card depicting a rebelling slave. Open resistance to slavery was rarely, if ever, nonviolent. (Library of Congress) African American troops fighting for the Union in Dutch Gap, ...
( Category: African-American Studies August 18,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Giffels

But not me, baby, I’m too precious . . . Fuck off! And then began punching again. After a while, it did start to hurt. When the song ended, in ...
( Category: State & Local August 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-13 | Author:Ruth Kassinger

We hung out in the vivarium for a time while I oohed and aahed over the butterflies. I learned that although their lives are sweet, they’re short: usually two to ...
( Category: State & Local August 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:George Willis

9. Man in the Middle Mills Lane had just finished a three-mile run across the back roads outside of Reno, Nevada, an exercise he undertook at least four times a ...
( Category: State & Local August 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Adam Lazarus [Lazarus, Adam]

Ottis Jerome (O. J.) Anderson stares at the camera during Super Bowl XXV. The New York Giants running back would finish the game with twenty-one carries, 102 yards rushing, one ...
( Category: State & Local July 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Brian Martin

Cooperstown residents apparently needed time to digest the village’s newfound status as the cradle of baseball, since little was done to capitalize on it in the near term. The lack ...
( Category: State & Local July 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:J. Campbell Bruce [Bruce, J. Campbell]

EX-CONVICT TELLS WHY By Robert de Roos It is easy to forget that the convicts who died in the abortive Alcatraz Prison break had friends. Yesterday, a former Alcatraz inmate ...
( Category: State & Local July 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Laurence Gonzales [Gonzales, Laurence]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN At one or two o’clock on the morning of July 20, when the Grumman Gulfstream touched down at the Sioux City airport and taxied to the ramp, more ...
( Category: State & Local July 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Massey, Douglas S., Albright, Len, Casciano, Rebecca, Derickson, Elizabeth, Kinsey, David N.

After income references and positive trait descriptors, the next most common content category involved some reference to the race or ethnicity of tenants. Indeed, around 17 percent of all respondents ...
( Category: State & Local July 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Lisa See [See, Lisa]

At that, Ticie intervened. “Ming will give you the money.” “Six hundred dollars, and not a penny more.” That six hundred dollars—a fortune miraculously saved by the family during those ...
( Category: State & Local July 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Kiernan, Denise [Kiernan, Denise]

CHAPTER 10 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Curiosity and Silence A three-year concentration of curiosity should be quite a potent brew for the average woman. —Vi Warren, Oak Ridge Journal ...
( Category: State & Local July 9,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-07-08 | Author:David M. Oshinsky

II Marshall was sent to Oakley Farm, a 2,700-acre tract for white state convicts in Hinds County, south of Jackson. As an educated man, he became the prison’s commissary clerk, ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Douglas Preston [Preston, Douglas]

Walter on his horse Pedernal. Photo Douglas Preston. We continued along the dirt road, climbing steeply, winding back and forth, up one mountainside after another. As we climbed our feelings ...
( Category: State & Local July 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Friedman, Josh Alan [Friedman, Josh Alan]

Pross and Pimps After Eighth Avenue’s streetwalker monopoly was terminated by 1980, girls gravitated to a dozen crosstown thoroughfares, as if dispersed by some antitrust action. The whole city combined ...
( Category: State & Local July 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Price, David A.

12 POCAHONTAS IN LONDON Within a few months of Pocahontas’s marriage in April 1614, Dale began to think of bringing her to England for the company’s benefit. It was such ...
( Category: Colonial Period June 24,2014 )