Essays
epub |eng | 2024-03-14 | Author:Mercer, James

( Category: Historical Study April 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-14 | Author:Scheff, Liam [Scheff, Liam]

The Return of Gallo The disease in gay men was in the news. It was called “GRID” by a Los Angeles doctor: Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. Well, it wasn’t gay-related, it ...
( Category: Essays July 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-14 | Author:Rick Darke

Sun roses (Cistus) and other exotic hardy plants among heather, on sandy slope in Surrey. True taste in the garden is, unhappily, much rarer than many people suppose. No amount ...
( Category: Conservation July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-21 | Author:Charles Sumner [Sumner, Charles]

The people and government responded to this voice. And here commenced those early deeds by which our navy became known in Europe. The frigate Philadelphia, through a reverse of shipwreck ...
( Category: Law June 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Borstelmann

Americans Abroad Some Americans have ventured abroad in every era, but historians and others have not always paid much attention to those who did. From the beginning, American society was ...
( Category: Essays May 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michel de Montaigne [Montaigne, Michel de]

“O, father, is it then to be conceiv’d That any of these spirits, so sublime, Should hence to the celestial regions climb, And thence return to earth to reassume Their ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-03 | Author:Byron Hollinshead

JAY WINIK The Day Lincoln Was Shot Jay Winik is one of America’s leading historians by virtue of his award-winning best seller, April 1865: The Month That Saved America. The ...
( Category: History & Theory March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-03 | Author:Byron Hollinshead, Theodore K. Rabb

( Category: History & Theory March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aran Mackinnon & Elaine Mackinnon

Global Encounters and Connections: Treaty-Port Encounters at Shanghai Clearly, amphibious Shanghai, with its agricultural hinterland and its circular-walled and canal-crossed city, had a complex history prior to the Westerners’ appearance ...
( Category: Essays March 15,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-09-13 | Author:Richard Hofstadter

I T HE taking of the Philippine Islands from Spain in 1899 marked a major historical departure for the American people, a breach in their traditions and a shock to ...
( Category: Political Parties March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Col. Matthew Moten

THE MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE SEDAN-VERDUN AND VICINITY September-October 1918 Pétain had a point: the challenge was daunting. Five of the attack divisions had never seen combat, and many more troops were ...
( Category: Essays March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Mackenzi Lee

sidebark Pit bulls’ bad reputation for being vicious fighting dogs likely traces back to their origins in England, where they were bred first as fighters for the absolutely gross sport ...
( Category: Essays March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Gary Snyder

Walls Within Walls High population, deforestation, a cash economy, and tribal nomad horsemen bring a partial end to one of the peak urban cultures: Sung Dynasty China. CITY WALLS Dwelling ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-02-27 | Author:Howard Zinn

One of the things said most often about the United States is that there is very little class consciousness. But there is strong evidence that this view is mistaken. Back ...
( Category: Democracy February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-14 | Author:Stephen McNeilly [McNeilly, Stephen]

Swedenborg and the Comparative Philosophy of the Soul Michael Costello Though physicalism is the current dominant doctrine, many philosophers and scientists still hold that in personal experience, (i.e. in the ...
( Category: Essays February 27,2020 )