Historical Study & Educational Resources
mobi |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Leonard, Devin [Leonard, Devin]
Benjamin Franklin, architect of the American colonial post, and first postmaster general. A post office circa 1809, where all sorting was done by hand. In 1835, a mob in Charleston, ...
( Category:
Americas
December 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Gail MacColl [MacColl, Gail]
Cartoonists continued to follow the American heiresses’ activities in their new land. The legend on the balcony reads: “Reserved for American Wives of English lords.” In 1885 Lord Randolph Churchill ...
( Category:
Americas
December 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Nesteroff, Kliph [Nesteroff, Kliph]
Edward Albee. The vaudeville mogul aligned himself with church groups to crush competitors, smearing them as immoral. B. F. Keith’s New Theatre, p. 48/Wikimedia Commons The Ziegfeld Follies made big ...
( Category:
Americas
December 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-04 | Author:Anna May McHugh
11. The Highs and the Lows It was Monday, 19 February 2001. It was such an unremarkable day that I have no recollection of what I was doing at that ...
( Category:
World
December 23,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-09-14 | Author:Ian Hargreaves
In Britain, a wholly fictional figure captures the spirit of the press baron. Evelyn Waugh’s comic masterpiece Scoop (1937) gave us Lord Copper, whose erratic judgement was surpassed only by ...
( Category:
Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
December 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Pete Hamill [Hamill, Pete]
4 Tell It to Abdul (or Kim, or Ivan, or Rosa …) IN 1922, WHEN the New York Daily News was three years old, its advertising department invented a slogan ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
December 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-06 | Author:Annie Ernaux
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE The Years is at least twice as long as all but one of AE’s previous books and in other ways, too, is a departure from her other work. ...
( Category:
World
December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Dwyer & Amanda Nettelbeck
Conclusion Interventions by the police to defuse societal tension were not always successful, and cases of failure are more easily found in the government archive. For instance, the provincial government’s ...
( Category:
Anthropology
December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Isaiah Berlin
TO JONATHAN DANCYfn1743 28 March 1995 [carbon] [Headington House] Dear Dancy, Thank you for your letter about the conflict of values. I am afraid that your account of my views ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]
This at last was mutiny: having been denounced as a rebel, Kornilov chose to rebel. Several senior generals declared their support for him. Now Kerensky had a real 'counter-revolution' to ...
( Category:
Russia
December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Thomas R. Flagel [Flagel, Thomas R.]
He ran for office as an ardent anticommunist, and his inaugural address affirmed his oath to fight Marxism anytime, anywhere. After the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs, however, Kennedy ...
( Category:
Historical
December 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-12-17 | Author:Norman F. Cantor
The case of the le Strange family demonstrates well what the Black Death and the courts could do to an unlucky upper-class family. The le Stranges lived in Whitchurch in ...
( Category:
Europe
December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Langston Hughes [Hughes, Langston]
( Category:
Americas
December 15,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Kramer, Martin [Kramer, Martin]
So in none of these meetings was there a preliminary half-hour lecture on Palestine. In most of them, the threat posed by Iran loomed larger than any anxiety over the ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Stephen Birmingham
16 A LITANY OF GOOD WORKS Mary Emery’s first important philanthropy came not long after her husband’s death, when she donated $250,000 to build a YMCA in Newport, specifically for ...
( Category:
Specific Groups
December 14,2017 )
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