Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Fred DuBose

Joe Johnston’s Chance Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston (page 81), now head of the Army of Northern Virginia, saw his chance to strike. His plan was for 23 Rebel brigades ...
( Category: Americas April 14,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks [Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.]

Notes 1 R. H. Major, ed. and trans., Select Letters of Christopher Columbus (London: Hakluyt Society, 1847), pp. 1, 4. 2 Ibid., p. 15. 3 Martin Waldseemüller, Introduction to Cosmography ...
( Category: Europe April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-13 | Author:Morris Dickstein

For a final curtain, they brought out an enormous wooden mallet labeled “The Works” and with it completely demolished our hero. His toupee flew off, his eye and teeth popped ...
( Category: Americas April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Jones, Gareth Stedman [Jones, Gareth Stedman]

In most districts surrounding the City however, especially those in a radius from a quarter to three-quarters of a mile from the City borders, deterioration and an increase in overcrowding ...
( Category: Sociology April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-13 | Author:Alysa Levene

A search for birthday cakes on the online pinboard site Pinterest brings up so many results that the site generates an automatic list of subcategories. These range from the straightforward ...
( Category: Baking April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 1950-04-13 | Author:Johan Huizinga [Huizinga, J.]

The riddle is a sacred thing full of secret power, hence a dangerous thing. In its mythological or ritual context it is nearly always what German philologists know as the ...
( Category: World April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-07 | Author:Daniel Boorstin [Boorstin, Daniel]

The Americans did not listen. Yet the Indians could not be ignored, for they threatened life and land in many parts of the West. As late as 1869, the United ...
( Category: Americas April 13,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Amy B. Trubek [Trubek, Amy B.]

CHAPTER FOUR Cooking Is a Crafts Anina emigrated from Bosnia to a small town in rural New England in the early 1990s. She became involved in her town’s community and ...
( Category: Anthropology April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-13 | Author:Valerie Neal [Neal, Valerie]

Fig. 5.1. This logo conveyed the essence of space station Freedom’s design simply, without symbolism other than its auspicious name. NASA (89–34285). The aerospace giants who vied for space station ...
( Category: Engineering April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hurtado, Albert L.

E L E V E N · The Grand Patriarch The 1930s were challenging years for the University of California. In July 1930 Robert Gordon Sproul became president of the ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Bolduc, Jean [Bolduc, Jean]

I asked Shelton Green which writers have influenced her. It is quite a list: Phillis Wheatley Alice Walker Mari Evans Sylvia Plath Pablo Neruda Anne Sexton Rumi Amiri Baraka Hafiz ...
( Category: Photography & Video April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-13 | Author:Brian H. Greenwald

Peddler’s card, circa 1940s. Courtesy of Gallaudet University Archives. Tom Anderson, who became president of the NAD in 1940, assigned the deaf peddler exploitation issue to the Impostor Bureau.61 Anderson ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Richard Polt

Jacqueline Suskin When I moved to New York, I tried one more time. It was my cousin’s idea to go up on the High Line, where there are lots of ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-13 | Author:Jeffrey Sussman

Having already invested in Baer’s future, Lorimer enlisted a highly capable middleweight named Bob McAllister to tutor the young fighter, who turned out to be a good, although impatient, student. ...
( Category: Biographies April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 1963-04-13 | Author:Alison Gernsheim

* * * 1 Isabel Cooper-Oakley, ‘History of Bonnets in Queen Victoria’s Reign’ in The Woman’s World, August 1888. 2 Augustin Challamel, The History of Fashion in France, London, 1882. ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles April 13,2018 )