Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Erez Aiden

One of the circle’s favorite examples was the word Volksgeist, “spirit of the people.” Volksgeist was supposed to refer to a nation’s collective consciousness and memory, to what the nation ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 2,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lois Duncan [Duncan, Lois]

17 WHEN I GOT BACK to Albuquerque, I learned that Brett had been trying to reach me. Donnie, who had taken the message, had not written down the phone number, ...
( Category: True Crime September 2,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-02 | Author:Tristan Donovan [Donovan, Tristan]

Soda fountain equipment on display at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where Charles Hires launched his pioneering root beer. The man who tickled our taste buds: John Pemberton, the ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-11-01 | Author:Menand, Louis [Menand, Louis]

Mailer: Well, condoms are one element in a vast, unconscious conspiracy to make everyone part of the social machine. Then we lose whatever little private spirit we’ve kept. Madonna: On ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

The American Declaration of Independence, however, clearly understood that difference of interest between government and citizen. It says that the purpose of government is to secure certain rights for its ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 1,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:James T. Patterson

9 Immigration, Multiculturalism, Race In challenging George H. W. Bush for the GOP presidential nomination in 1992, Patrick Buchanan proclaimed that rising immigration was threatening to tear the United States ...
( Category: Americas September 1,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Mark P. Donnelly & Daniel Diehl

This illustration by Howard Pyle shows the arrest of an old woman in Salem Massachusetts on the charges of witchcraft. It was the result of an hysteria which swept through ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-12 | Author:Friedrich Engels

All the members of an Iroquois gens were personally free, and they were bound to defend each other’s freedom; they were equal in privileges and in personal rights, the sachem ...
( Category: Sociology August 31,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Murray Bookchin [Bookchin, Murray]

Towards a Liberatory Technology D Not since the days of the Industrial Revolution have popular attitudes toward technology fluctuated as sharply as in the past few decades. During most of ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Max Décharné

( Category: Words, Language & Grammar August 31,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Ruiz, Teofilo F. [Ruiz, Teofilo F.]

History and the World of Matter If what I describe here is easily understood, part of our experience, part of our need for physical and emotional comfort, how can it ...
( Category: Philosophy August 31,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Teofilo F. Ruiz [Ruiz, Teofilo F.]

History and the World of Matter If what I describe here is easily understood, part of our experience, part of our need for physical and emotional comfort, how can it ...
( Category: Philosophy August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Daniel Okrent [Okrent, Daniel]

Chapter 16 “Escaped on Payment of Money” I N AN ATTEMPT to memorize poetry,” Irving Fisher wrote in 1926, “Professor Vogt of the University of Christiania found that on days ...
( Category: Americas August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-30 | Author:Rebecca Solnit

AWAKENINGS AND COINCIDENCES One can imagine the characters of Adam Hochschild’s wonderful new history, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, as they ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-29 | Author:Carol Harris [Carol Harris]

This raid quickly became known as the Second Great Fire of London. The damage caused by incendiaries was a particular cause for concern. On 31 December 1940, Herbert Morrison broadcast ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )