Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Judith Flanders [Flanders, Judith]

A City chophouse, fitted out with standard booth-style seating, or ‘boxes’, as they were known. The waiter looks anxious to serve: he was not an employee, but instead he paid ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-22 | Author:Jon Ward

It was break-the-glass time for Kennedy. He didn’t show signs of panic, however. In fact, he became a more effective candidate in those days after the Register poll was released, ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

23 Faith of our fathers The failure of Wyatt’s rebellion, and the subsequent arrival of Philip, lent confidence to the queen. The pace of religious reform, or perhaps of religious ...
( Category: Europe January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Loren Schweninger

AN ESSAY ON SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY Several factors recommend antebellum equity, or chancery, court records as a remarkable source for understanding divorce, slavery, and the law in the Old South. ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:J. Nathan [Nathan, J.]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Sabrina The sound of Crosby’s door closing softly jarred me awake in the morning. Feeling groggy and exhausted, my eyes cracked open. Sunlight filtered into the room. Crosby ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 19,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ackroyd

22 The magical machines Two brothers, John and Thomas Lombe, erected a manufactory in 1719 on an island in the River Derwent. It housed a silk engine which became the ...
( Category: Europe January 19,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bess Williamson

6 From Accessible to Universal Design in the Late Twentieth Century In the last decades of the twentieth century, disability rights reached the mainstream of American culture with conflicting success. ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-11 | Author:Rob Kirkpatrick

16. AN AMAZIN’ SUMMER Dominant pitching and timely hitting leads the Mets on a miraculous winning streak into first place. While the nation seemed to be turned on its end ...
( Category: Americas January 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Wickham-Jones [Wickham-Jones, Caroline]

FIGURE 28 A nineteenth-century view of the Brough of Deerness. It is likely that the settlement in the Brough of Birsay included monks, and there were other monastic sites in ...
( Category: Europe January 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-04 | Author:Paul Rouse

VII At the November 1886 meeting of the Wexford Gaelic Athletic Club (popularly known as the ‘Blues and Whites’, based in Wexford town), two men – R. Goodison and John ...
( Category: Miscellaneous January 13,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roberts, Sam

● 54 ● “To City” Sign The “Outer” Boroughs The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, “is always the city seen for ...
( Category: Americas January 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-04 | Author:Fossier, Robert. [Fossier, Robert]

KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING Immersed in the terrestrial and even the aerial animal worlds, man of the Middle Ages could not be content with being subjected to contact with the beasts. ...
( Category: Europe January 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Alan Axelrod

( Category: Historical January 3,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:John H. Rosser [Rosser, John H.]

Hagia Sophia, Constantinople. Facing northeast. Byzantium’s greatest church, whose influence was such that subsequent Byzantine churches had one or more domes. However, no Byzantine church was ever again attempted on ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides January 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:Alfred Hutton

The stramazzone, or vertical cut, is sometimes employed. The false edge can be used with cut I at the back of the neck, cut 5 at the left side or ...
( Category: Military January 1,2019 )