Historical Study & Educational Resources
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Edward Gibbon

Part VI. Athanasius had indeed escaped from the most imminent dangers; and the adventures of that extraordinary man deserve and fix our attention. On the memorable night when the church ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-09-02 | Author:David Hilfiker

It is no coincidence that social insurance programs are administered by the federal government using nationally uniform standards and benefits pegged to inflation. Public assistance programs, on the other hand, ...
( Category: Poverty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Gordon S. Wood

AFTERWORD TO CHAPTER 6 This essay is a much-revised and updated version of a lecture originally given before the Kentucky legislature in Frankfort, Kentucky, on January 9, 1974, which perhaps ...
( Category: Constitutions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The Last Teach-In The remarkable growth of the antiwar movement can be measured by the ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:Isabel Wilkerson

LOS ANGELES, 1954 ROBERT JOSEPH PERSHING FOSTER ALICE BEGAN SETTING UP HOUSE in the walk-up apartment Robert had scrambled to secure for his family after the apartment he wanted mysteriously ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Jeffrey Meyer

Unless one is prepared to believe that Francis Bellamy was a deliberate and conscienceless liar, the mass of his testimony is overwhelmingly in his favor. We, for our part, do ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Okrent, Daniel [Okrent, Daniel]

Chapter 16 “Escaped on Payment of Money” I N AN ATTEMPT to memorize poetry,” Irving Fisher wrote in 1926, “Professor Vogt of the University of Christiania found that on days ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:James Traub

11. SAVING BILLBOARD HELL THE REDEVELOPMENT OF 42nd STREET, whatever its flaws, was an act of urban planning, a conscious re-creation of a bounded urban space almost from the ground ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Lucy Moore

Not every American was seduced by the Ku Klux Klan. The journalist William Allen White described the Klan to a colleague as “a self-constituted body of moral idiots.” The trouble ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-02-26 | Author:Nick Taylor

13. THE AMERICAN GUIDES: IDAHO VERSUS WASHINGTON, D.C. The American Guides were slowly beginning to take shape. Even the dueling radicals came to understand that they had to show some ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Raban

The Wollastons were bent on self-sufficiency, on making the homestead pay. Many, if not most, of their neighbors were subsidizing their farms by taking outside jobs. They taught school, or ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Lee Sandlin

If there was a heart to the city, it was down from the old French Quarter, behind the warehouse district at the southwest curve of the waterfront crescent. This was ...
( Category: Historical Geography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust

“It was my Mother’s customs,” “My gentle Mother dear” “I was my Mother’s darling,” for, I loved my lager beer. “Kiss me good-night, Mother,” and bring me a Bourbon plain— ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Jane Ziegelman

The immigrants’ dining room at Ellis Island, date unknown. National Archives Like the baggage-handlers and money-changers, the Ellis Island food purveyors were private contractors granted the privilege of doing business ...
( Category: Food Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

Ten military advisers are attached to the Sonsonate armed forces... The episode contains all the unchanging elements of the Salvadoran tragedy— uncontrolled military violence against civilians, the apparent ability of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )