Revolution & Founding
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Taylor, Alan [Taylor, Alan]
News On February 8, Cockburn received disturbing news: “an ugly account of peace being signed.” At Ghent on December 24, 1814, British diplomats had concluded a peace treaty with American ...
( Category:
Discrimination & Racism
July 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]
THE MANNER in which the Farewell Address was actually composed, as it turned out, served as a nearly perfect illustration of its central message—the need to subordinate narrow interests to ...
( Category:
Political
May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Gordon S. Wood [Wood, Gordon S.]
When someone as aristocratic as William Byrd could write of the natural equality of all men, even those of different nations and races, and conclude that “the principal difference between ...
( Category:
History & Theory
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]
At the Green Dragon Tavern, I asked Austin Hess whether he was worried Sarah Palin was hijacking the Tea Party. He shrugged. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” ...
( Category:
Conservatism & Liberalism
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-04 | Author:Gordon S. Wood
V Republicanism Amilitary victory over Great Britain may have been essential for the success of the Revolution, but for Americans it was scarcely the whole of the Revolution. Although the ...
( Category:
Democracy
March 26,2014 )
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 | 2001-01-02 | Author:Gordon S. Wood
V Republicanism Amilitary victory over Great Britain may have been essential for the success of the Revolution, but for Americans it was scarcely the whole of the Revolution. Although the ...
( Category:
American Revolution
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-18 | Author:Tim McGrath
Pursuit continued. By now both Alliance and the Duc had hoisted their colors, along with Alliance's signals for the Duc to “Shift for herself.” Despite her added cargo the Alliance ...
( Category:
American Revolution
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-10-30 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis
THE MANNER in which the Farewell Address was actually composed, as it turned out, served as a nearly perfect illustration of its central message—the need to subordinate narrow interests to ...
( Category:
American Revolution
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Richard Brookhiser
CHAPTER SEVEN In Power When James Madison first arrived in Washington in the spring of 1801, it was nowhere. The federal government had moved to its latest site in the ...
( Category:
American Revolution
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Ron Chernow
PART FOUR The Statesman Bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculpted in 1785. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT American Celebrity WITH PERFECT TIMING, George Washington made it home to the loving embrace ...
( Category:
American Revolution
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:David McCullough
• • • UNTIL A SUITABLE HOUSE could be found, the three Adamses were residing in the Bath Hotel in Piccadilly, where, after the quiet of Auteuil, the noise of ...
( Category:
American Revolution
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis
ETIQUETTE AND EMULATION “We are most delightfully situated,” Abigail explained to her sister. “The prospect around us is Beautiful in the highest degree, it is a mixture of sublime & ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-15 | Author:Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; John Jay; Lawrence Goldman
No. 43 BY JAMES MADISON The same view continued THE FOURTH CLASS COMPRISES the following miscellaneous powers: 1. A power to “promote the progress of science and useful arts, by ...
( Category:
Constitutions
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Andreas, Peter [Andreas, Peter]
If I wished to defend myself, I have precedent right out of American history for my rum running enterprises. Americans, since the beginning of this nation, have always kicked holes ...
( Category:
Economic History
March 25,2014 )
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