Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:Grasso, Christopher;

11 Converting Skeptics Infidel and Protestant Economies On February 14, 1833, at a little after five o’clock in the afternoon, a thirty-year-old lawyer named Charles R. Baldwin, sitting alone in ...
epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Greg Campbell

ON THE SURFACE, the expo seemed to have gone off splendidly, but behind the scenes, mutiny was brewing. One of the reasons Perlowin looked so haggard, I found out later, ...
( Category: Social Policy July 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-14 | Author:Mark Pendergrast

1941: Surviving the First Quota Year The first year of the agreement, which ran retrospectively from October 1, 1940 (when the new Brazilian harvest began to arrive in the United ...
( Category: Coffee & Tea July 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Johanna C. Luttrell

3.3 Liberal Responses to Black Mourning: Voyeurism and Appropriation White conservative and liberal responses to black grief respond dialectically to each other; they do not adequately respond to black loss. ...
( Category: Social Policy July 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Emily Brand

THE ‘DEMOCRATIC’ WEDDING KING GEORGEV AND QUEEN MARY were crowned in the summer of 1911. The conflict and austerity that were to blight the early years of his reign were ...
( Category: Royalty July 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre [Collins, Larry & Lapierre, Dominique]

24 "ATTACK AND ATTACK AND ATTACK." ABDUL KHADER HUSSEINI'S DEATH forced major changes in the Arabs' guerrilla tactics and organization around Jerusalem. The Mufti named another member of the Husseini ...
epub |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Walter Kennedy [Kennedy, Walter]

MYTH: Southerners who support the notion of a benevolent slaveholding society are merely defending slavery. REALITY: There is more to the idea of a benevolent slaveholding society in the Old ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-01 | Author:Margaret Shennan [Shennan, Margaret]

10 The Mem, the Missee and the Tuan Kechil ‘What was the poor Planter to do – stuck out in the East with no women of any kind?’ fumed Guy ...
epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Steven T. Collis

* * * Notes 1. There are conflicting writings regarding whether this happened in Sacramento or in San Francisco. The distinction is irrelevant for understanding Al Smith and his spiritual ...
( Category: Religious Intolerance & Persecution July 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Sarah Parcak

Upmarket Afterlife Property Like other Middle Kingdom tombs that aimed high—even higher than the nomarchs of the Old Kingdom—this tomb had, when new, sought to imitate a pyramid’s front driveway. ...
( Category: Women in History July 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Lisa Taddeo

The next morning it’s raining so hard that rain is shelling sideways against the window. The new development in which Lina lives seems to go on forever, metastasizing in soaked ...
( Category: Human Sexuality July 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Phillips, Christopher

In the 1980s Leon Hamilton regretted, above all, not having the time to see as much as he had in the “old days.” The term “scout” originated in a military ...
( Category: History & Philosophy July 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 1999-06-14 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

The frontier with Montenegro is half an hour’s drive from the outskirts of Dubrovnik. From the main road it is possible to see—impossible to avoid, in fact—the zigzag track that ...
( Category: Comparative Politics July 1,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Hobhouse [Hobhouse, Henry]

II Over the next three decades, 1880–1910, rubber became the most important, most market-sensitive, most sought-after new commodity in the world. Safety bicycles with rubber tyres were selling in their ...
( Category: Economic History June 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Adam Chandler

12 CRISP DIGITAL NUGGETS Let’s nugget that meat up and make some real money. —WALLACE Carter Wilkerson had no way of knowing how profoundly his life was going to change ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism June 26,2019 )