Essays
epub |eng | 2008-06-07 | Author:Douglas A. Blackmon [Blackmon, Douglas A.]

IX A RIVER OF ANGER The South Is "an armed camp." In the three months since Reese began his slavery investigation, the guilt of every defendant called to court had ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Tim Wu

Eventually, one thing led to another. “Of course, I had no idea what I was saying; much of what I said was based on what I had seen on General ...
( Category: Direct March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:J. Matthew Gallman & Gary W. Gallagher

NOTES 1. Quotation from Jeff L. Rosenheim, Photography and the American Civil War (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013), 147. 2. Born in England, Thomas W. Bankes came to ...
( Category: Photojournalism March 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-07 | Author:William H. Ukers [William H. Ukers]

One of the first immediate supplies General Sherman desired from Wilmington, on reaching Fayetteville and lines of communication in March, 1865, was, expressly, coffee. He says so himself, in the ...
( Category: Coffee & Tea April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Sitwell

Chapter 54 Roly-poly jam pudding 1861 AUTHOR: Isabella Beeton, FROM: Beeton’s Book of Household Management TIME – 2 HOURS. AVERAGE COST – 9D. SUFFICIENT – FOR 5 OR 6 PERSONS. ...
( Category: Essays January 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-21 | Author:Northrop, Douglas

Connecting CHAPTER TWENTY Networks, Interactions, and Connective History FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO WITH BENJAMIN SACKS Global history, strictly understood, is the history of what happens worldwide – across the planet as a ...
( Category: Essays December 30,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Richard Hofstadter

1 An Economic Interpretation, 153, 216; see Douglass Adair, “The Tenth Federalist Revisited,” William and Mary Quarterly, 8 (1951), 48–67. 2 “Making the Fascist State,” New Republic, 57 (1929), 277; ...
( Category: United States August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amitav Ghosh [Ghosh, Amitav]

Unfortunately, The Trench comes as a great disappointment. The narrative now moves away from Harran to a city in the interior called Mooran ("the Changeable"), which serves as the seat ...
( Category: Essays June 12,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1997-01-15 | Author:Howard Zinn

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: Discrimination & Racism June 11,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Norman Davies [Davies, Norman]

The land from which the Casa Savoia took its name has now belonged to France for more than a century and a half. The départements of Savoie (chef-lieu Chambéry) and ...
( Category: Essays May 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Hanna Krall

16 His conversations with his father, conducted in his maximum security cell, ended in a silence behind which Stefan W. could feel a stubborn, unreconciled disapproval. At first this had ...
( Category: Holocaust April 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Martin Edmond [Edmond, Martin]

THERE WAS A TENDENCY among Europeans to see the so-called primitive societies they found as not just pristine but changeless as well: as if they had existed since time immemorial ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:English Historical Fiction Authors

LLOYD’S: LIFEBLOOD OF BRITISH COMMERCE AND STARBUCKS OF ITS DAY BY LINDA COLLISON Ships have always played a major role in the import and export of goods; even today, ninety ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Colonial Period February 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Greg King [King, Greg]

The Ambassador said that before his departure from England he had been summoned to spend a few days with the King and Queen of England. He said that, as I ...
( Category: Rich & Famous January 29,2015 )