Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Le

THE FUTURE OF FOOD When the hype is greater than the science it burns all of us. —K. LANCE GOULD, quoted in Shari Roan, “A Slow Change of Heart” Most ...
( Category: History June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Zug, Marcia A.;

A group of female immigrants denied admission and waiting to return home. Library of Congress. Marriage also helped would-be female immigrants by protecting them from accusations of prostitution or other ...
( Category: World June 27,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:John Guy

5 A Second Solomon Like King Solomon, the most famous of the Old Testament patriarchs, who was said to have sat in majesty on an ivory throne and who completed ...
( Category: Europe June 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-14 | Author:Greg Jobin-Leeds

Others have echoed Saavedra. Many of the Washington, D.C.–based immigrant rights organizations thought they had a friend in the White House with Obama and were trying to play the inside ...
( Category: Political Advocacy June 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Wendy Hamand Venet [Venet, Wendy Hamand]

8. The Barbarous War On a hot, humid night in July 1864, Sam Richards pulled out his small clothbound diary and penned an entry. Richards worried about the military situation, ...
( Category: State & Local June 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Kate Daloz

Myrtle Hill, summer 1971, in front of the dome (note wood panels on top and Drop City–inspired car-top panels on the bottom). Back row (L–R): Fletcher, Jim the Bear, unknown ...
( Category: Sustainable Living June 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:David Williams & Howard Zinn [Williams, David & Zinn, Howard]

“Union Men to the Core” Men like Mason were hardly unusual. Anti-Confederate activists throughout the South established an extensive network of safe houses, guides, and secret signals to aid refugees, ...
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Jack Lynch [Lynch, Jack]

and will miss the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica… . But we live in a complex world, too big for a few hundred people to cover completely, and too fast-moving for print ...
( Category: History May 29,2016 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Svetlana Alexievich

My aunt had a unique voice…She warbled like Edith Piaf. People would ask her to sing at their weddings. And whenever anyone died. I would always come with her…Running alongside ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union May 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Svetlana Alexievich

* * * *1 The Leningrad Blockade lasted from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944. Nazi troops had the city surrounded, effectively cutting citizens off from supply lines and ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union May 27,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gregory Clark [Clark, Gregory]

TABLE 10.6. Relative representation of samurai and kazoku among medical researchers, 1965–89 Year Samurai Kazoku Observed 1965–66 30 13 Observed 1989–90 70 23 1965–66 5.99 4.95 1989–90 4.69 2.94 Implied ...
( Category: Economic History May 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-04 | Author:Yanagita Kunio & Sasaki Kizen [Kunio, Yanagita & Kizen, Sasaki]

Gonzo was a pro at river fishing. In the summer, when he was not in the mood for blacksmithing, he became absorbed with fishing. One time, when he went fishing ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 24,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Trombley [Trombley, Stephen]

Jaspers’s ‘pre-philosophical’ period Jaspers studied law, then took PhDs in both medicine and psychology at Heidelberg, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. His early influences were Kant, Nietzsche and ...
( Category: History & Surveys May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-10 | Author:Rory C. Dicker

Feminism at the Newsstand When Ms. magazine began publishing in 1972, most monthly magazines aimed at women focused on beauty and fashion or homemaking and decorating. Most publications directed at ...
( Category: Women in History May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Jonathan D. Spence

* In fact, though such discriminations were commonplace, appeals were possible, and successful ones can be tracked through to the Supreme Court of the United States, as in cases like ...
( Category: China May 2,2016 )