mobi |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:Shirley Jones

After I finished playing Tahoe, Ryan, our third son, was born. I was delighted, and so was Jack, although sometimes the stress of having three little boys under one roof ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Lincoln, Abraham

Leadership vs. Tyranny If a state, in one instance, and a county in another, should be equal in extent of territory, and equal in the number of people, wherein is ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:David Goldfield

Triumph Hill, near Tidioute, Pennsylvania (ca. 1870), was at the center of the oil boom that John D. Rockefeller parlayed into the Standard Oil Company. The photo shows buildings, derricks, ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Bruce Catton [Catton, Bruce]

2: Memorandum from Mr. Seward William Howard Russell, correspondent for the London Times, found Abraham Lincoln a more impressive figure than he had anticipated. He was long, craggy, strong, and ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Michael Burlingame

13 “A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath” The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) In 1860, the radical abolitionist Parker Pillsbury dismissed Lincoln as “the Kentucky clodhopper,” scoffed at his antislavery record, ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-21 | Author:Barnet Schecter

"I think things begin to look better now," Joseph Choate wrote tentatively on Wednesday morning to his mother in Salem, Massachusetts. "Powder and ball are beginning to tell . . ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:David Von Drehle [Drehle, David Von]

9 AUGUST Frequently that summer, a man arrived at the White House whose role in the Civil War was little known at the time and has long since been nearly ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Rae Katherine Eighmey [Eighmey, Rae Katherine]

As you’ll see, we know Mrs. Lincoln served sausage at their breakfasts. Menus from Miss Leslie’s cookbook for hearty “Autumn and Winter Breakfasts” provide some suggestions for the other foods ...

epub |eng | | Author:Louisa May Alcott

* * * CHAPTER V OFF DUTY. "My dear girl, we shall have you sick in your bed, unless you keep yourself warm and quiet for a few days. Widow ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Michael Burlingame

31 “The Signs Look Better” Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July–November 1863) Lincoln’s popularity soared after the victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson. His old friend ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Smithsonian Institution [Kagan, Neil]

80 PORT HUDSON BURIAL POST IN MAY 1863, AS ULYSSES GRANT’S ARMY BESIEGED Vicksburg, Union troops under General Nathaniel P. Banks encircled Port Hudson, a strategically vital Louisiana town on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1974-01-02 | Author:Michael Shaara

3. LONGSTREET They had taken a door from its hinges at the Thompson house and placed it across fence rails to serve as a map table. Lee stood above it ...