epub |eng | 2010-11-12 | Author:Synge, M. B. [Synge, M. B.]

CHAPTER XXIX The Founding of Quebec "Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past." —T. MOORE, (Canadian Boat Song). WHILE Henry Hudson was ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Winifred Gallagher

• • • STEAM POWER HAD IMPROVED postal service for most Americans by the late nineteenth century, but others, particularly in the western outback, remained beyond the pale. Letters that ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Kidd, Thomas S.

Virginia’s turn to slavery transpired over a longer period of time, as its supply of African slaves in the early and mid-1600s was limited by imperial and economic factors in ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Sydney George Fisher

In a letter to Lord Karnes which has been often quoted he explained at length, and for the most part in very technical language, the reasons for the superiority of ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-23 | Author:Stephen Coss

18 POINTED SATYR Late on the afternoon of December 2, 1721, several hours after what Samuel Sewall called “a great Funeral” for the deceased Boston politician William Hutchinson, a letter ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ann Chandonnet

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS New foods affected not only diet and health but also trade, and trade between Old and New Worlds was significant. A letter of November 5, 1626 to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen Sears

Forged from Steel Carnegie’s plants manufactured Bessemer steel, a new way of forging the metal from pig iron. In 1901 J. Pierpont Morgan bought out Carnegie and formed the United ...

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 ...