Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Grabar [Grabar, Mary]

CHAPTER SEVEN Black Mascots for a Red Revolution “The black revolt of the 1950s and 1960s—North and South—came as a surprise. But perhaps it should not have. The memory of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 7,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Boris Johnson

The information confounded him still more; he had some difficulty to restrain himself, and taking up a book, sat upon a window-seat and read. . . . The cheering sound ...
( Category: Essays October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Sarah A. Chrisman

Even in the best of households, though, the bread sometimes failed. Yeast is a finicky organism. As Mrs. Beeton said, “Extremes of cold and heat kill it, and a temperature ...
( Category: Women October 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-30 | Author:Tom Mueller

* * * — Of the many contractors in the nuclear power, weapons and cleanup business that dupe the US government, the DOE and the American taxpayer, Bechtel is the ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources October 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-23 | Author:Mary-Ellen Kelm

* * * GENERAL COUNCIL, SARNIA RESERVE July 2nd, 1874. The President, Rev. H. P. Chase, in the chair. C. Halfmoon offered up prayer. Moved by Dr. Jones, seconded by ...
( Category: Historiography September 24,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:Peter Linebaugh [Linebaugh, Peter]

Black Panthers Although the symbol itself arose from the voter registration campaigns of the south (Lowndes County), the Black Panther Party, founded in 1966, quickly became an organization of the ...
( Category: Democracy September 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

18. The Logic of Withdrawal January 2004 A note of explanation: In the spring of 1967, my book Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal was published by Beacon Press. It was ...
( Category: United States September 20,2019 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

None of this makes sense. Alcohol is a powerful drug. It disinhibits. It breaks down the set of constraints that hold our behavior in check. That’s why it doesn’t seem ...
( Category: Study Guides September 12,2019 )
epub, mobi, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2008-04-09 | Author:Douglas A. Blackmon [Blackmon, Douglas A.]

Until the day of the arraignments, most of Alabama’s political elite and the white general public had imagined that the slavery investigation was entirely the handiwork of the White House ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jean Hatzfeld

THE PARENTS MOTHER COURAGE When I invite her for our first meeting, at a restaurant at the bus station, Jacqueline Mukamana orders a chicken served with fried bananas and one ...
( Category: African September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-21 | Author:Peter Wright [Wright, Peter]

Woman is the unchanging trunk of the great genealogic tree; while man, with all his vaunted superiority, is but a branch, a grafted scion, as it were, whose acquired qualities ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Barbara Bisantz Raymond [Raymond, Barbara Bisantz]

The law must be consonant with life. . . . Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: “Who am I$” —Judge Wade ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:David McCullough

And yet at the close of her long days there on the farm in Braintree, at maybe 10:00 or 11:00 at night, Abigail Adams would sit by the fire at ...
( Category: Essays September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-28 | Author:Christopher Hadley

23 I know this story to be true because Sheldon told his daughter; Rosa. Rosa told it to her daughter Estella. Estella; in turn, told it to her son, William. ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Chapter XIII Childhood and other ages in life As was normal under the ancien régime, the peasant family in Montaillou was a large one. Mengarde and Pons Clergue had four ...
( Category: Decorating September 4,2019 )