Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

We come now to the gaping hole in the argument. It is the assumption that in the conditions prevailing after the Armistice, in the passion of anti-German feeling, in the ...
( Category: Study & Teaching March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wineburg, Sam

Thirteen of fifteen multiple-figure drawings by girls (87 percent) depicted men and women together, and twelve of the fifteen (80 percent) depicted images of couples or families (see Figure 5.2). ...
( Category: Social Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:J. Anthony Lukas [Lukas, J. Anthony]

There were times when Joan Diver wearied of the delicate balancing of private want and public weal that life in the South End demanded; at such moments, she was grateful ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:W. G. Sebald [Sebald, W. G.]

It was as if I had been walking for hours before the tiled roofs of houses and the crest of a wooded hill gradually became defined. The Dunwich of the ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Loewen, James W. [W., Loewen, James]

Lies My Teacher Told Me 6. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of... Perhaps the most telling criticism Frances FitzGerald made in her 1979 survey of American history textbooks, ...
( Category: Curricula March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-07 | Author:Bee Wilson [Wilson, Bee]

My mortar and pestle comes from Thailand and is fashioned from craggy black granite. I like it far better than those restrained white-china mortars, whose rough insides set my teeth ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Paterniti, Michael [Paterniti, Michael]

* Eventually I would sort out some of the names for the land, and I offer one last refresher here: The land above—what was identified as arriba by those in ...
( Category: Spanish March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Samira Kawash

Candy Is Delicious Food—Enjoy Some Every Day Otto Schnering, the man who had made Baby Ruth one of the biggest-selling candy bars ever, was an obvious choice to lead the ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Evgeny Morozov

Against Technological Defeatism Viewed in the abstract, it may seem that the tides of digital preemption, situational crime prevention, and reputation-based controls are unstoppable and irreversible. Information is everywhere, and ...
( Category: Social Media March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM--1916 * * * We must start from the assumption that promises made by proclamation at the beginning of this war may ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:David Nasaw [Nasaw, David]

Wilmington, Delaware, 1910. “Frank F. Gibson, Western Union, fourteen years old, one year in service, guides soldiers to segregated district, smokes, still in school and works from 8:30 P.M. to ...
( Category: Children's Studies March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Priscilla Murolo [Murolo, Priscilla]

EARLY YEARS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION Organized labor’s weakness in numbers and militancy helped set the stage for the Great Depression. While the Roaring Twenties saw gigantic increases in industrial ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Bill Clinton [Clinton, Bill]

Click here to view a larger image. (Illustration credit 5.3) On food insecurity, measuring the percentage of people who didn’t have enough money at some time in the last year ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Tilar J. Mazzeo [Mazzeo, Tilar J.]

FOURTEEN COCO AT WAR Back in Paris, Coco Chanel was getting ready to play a deep and dirty game of business and politics. Determinedly at war with her exiled partners, ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William M. Adler

SALT LAKE CITY was bracing for war: an incursion by Kelly’s Army of the Unemployed, a roving band of Wobblies under the command of “General” Charles T. Kelly. In early ...
( Category: Country & Folk March 26,2014 )