mobi |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Richard Carrier [Carrier, Richard]

FABRICATORY TREND “Whenever a saying or story reflects a known tendency of the developing tradition, the historian must suspect that saying's historicity,” which is again only exclusionary.106 For example, the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Krause, Bernie

Musical invention reflects modern views of ourselves and our increasing dissociation from the wild. Paralleling trends in science and the visual arts, composers, too, beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, began ...

epub |eng | | Author:Martin Duberman [Duberman, Martin]

In 1973, the University of Paris at Vincennes invited Howard to teach for one semester—two courses of three hours each on Marxist and anarchist theory, carrying a salary of $9,000 ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-13 | Author:Andrew Dickson White [White, Andrew Dickson]

And difficult as it is to realize it now, within the memory of many of us the battle was still raging most fiercely in England, and both kinds of artillery ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-08-12 | Author:Rinehart, Mary Roberts [Rinehart, Mary Roberts]

Chapter Seventeen THERE IS NO RECORD of that scene in the District Attorney’s office, but from what we know now, and from what was brought out at the trial, I ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Richard Rhodes

ELEVEN Babi Yar Kiev fell on 19 September 1941. “Hold it at all costs,” Stalin had ordered Budënny. The dull-witted marshal had positioned more than a half million men in ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-07-06 | Author:Margaret MacMillan

Anyone who has ever had an argument and said, “You always do that” or “I trusted you” or “You owe me one,” is using history to gain an advantage in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-30 | Author:Martin, Charles [Martin, Charles]

Chapter 10 Local Versus Global The Earth was shaken to its foundations. The sky sank lower toward the north. The sun, moon, and stars changed their motions. The Earth fell ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Bernard Bailyn [Bailyn, Bernard]

Later, in 1787, the Founders returned to the problem in setting up a federalist structure for the national government, a sharing of power between the national and state governments, which ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1906-01-01 | Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart [Rinehart, Mary Roberts]

CHAPTER XVIII A NEW WORLD Hotchkiss jotted down the bits of telegram and rose. "Well," he said, "we've done something. We've found where the murderer left the train, we know ...

mobi |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Wes Moore

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Tony Judt [Judt, Tony]

2 Except when it can be exploited for demagogic ends. When in the year 2000 Magdalen College, Oxford, didn’t offer a place to a young woman from a state school ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Walter L. Hixson [Hixson, Walter L.]

The Killing Fields of California Preceding the dispossession of the Plains tribes was a genocidal campaign against of the California Indians. In a recent study, Benjamin Madley found “evidence of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Gilbert Achcar

In one of his major public speeches, delivered a few days later, on March 8, 1965, Nasser returned to the theme of German reparations: Over the past ten years, Israel ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

Yet all man’s life is but ailing and dim, And rest upon the earth comes never. But if any far-off state there be, Dearer than life to mortality, The hand ...