United States
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:James Roman

Dunbar (Somerville) Hotel on Central Avenue, c. 1930 Nobody had ever constructed an upscale residence for African Americans before. As Somerville put it, his clientele “did not have to wait ...
( Category: United States May 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:La Raja, Raymond J. & Schaffner, Brian F.

Hypothesis 2: Party-Centered Campaign Finance Reduces Polarization in Legislatures We next explore our second hypothesis: that a party-centered campaign finance system will make legislatures less polarized, which could improve the ...
( Category: Elections May 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Sheila A. Brennan

The stamp engraving reproduces the full-bodied statue of him that sits in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington. Kosciuszko appears larger than life as he looks down ...
( Category: Stamps May 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-05 | Author:David Rohde

••• Trump’s candidacy and attacks divided military, intelligence, and diplomats in a way that hadn’t happened in decades. Post-Watergate, all three groups had generally strived to remain politically neutral. The ...
( Category: History & Theory May 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-27 | Author:John Koerner [Koerner, John]

Johnson and Nixon Cast Their Lots Much to the delight of the CIA and the military, President Lyndon Johnson and President Richard Nixon both saw to significant expansions of the ...
( Category: Espionage May 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:Thomas Rid [Rid, Thomas]

In May 1983 at a peace rally in Williamsburg, Virginia, during a high-profile summit meeting of industrial nations, particularly shrewd and well-equipped protesters displayed a German-language banner in the background ...
( Category: Media & Internet May 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-14 | Author:Balleisen, Edward J.;

Figure 9.1: A BBB poster beseeching investors to remain vigilant in the face of post–World War II investment and charity frauds. W. Dan Bell Papers, Denver Public Library, Western History ...
( Category: Ethics May 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-21 | Author:Meyssan, Thierry

The extension of the war President Bush wrote to his opposite numbers in Libya and Syria ordering them to “either destroy their weapons of mass destruction, or watch them being ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lewis A. Erenberg

6 ROPE-A-DOPE They call it rope a dope, I was the dope. GEORGE FOREMAN, “TOTAL FAILURE: HOW GEORGE FOREMAN’S LOSSES SHOWED HIM THE LIGHT,” NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, MAY 24, 2017 ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Matt Margolis [Margolis, Matt]

CHAPTER 7 TOUGH ON RUSSIA Almost immediately after Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 election, we were treated to a barrage of left-wing conspiracy theories and excuses to explain ...
( Category: Elections April 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Glotzer, Paige & Glotzer, Paige

The pilot site covered residential areas that the HOLC rated A, B, and C. A-2 consisted of a mixture of detached brick and frame homes and row houses no more ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-20 | Author:Susan Kingsley Kent

The invasion made it’s [sic] way steadily into the Northern Provinces along the easiest avenues and by the most expeditious means of transport, to wit: (a), by the Railway, (b), ...
( Category: United States April 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-29 | Author:Marcus A. Stadelmann [Stadelmann, Marcus A.]

DETERMINING THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I World War I (WWI) broke out in Europe in August 1914 and lasted until November 1918. The war proved to be the bloodiest ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Edward Achorn [Achorn, Edward]

CHAPTER 11 ANDY AIN’T A DRUNKARD Saturday, noon, March 4, 1865 Well-dressed white men and women, eager to get out of the rain and the muck, swarmed to the doors ...
( Category: American Civil War April 24,2020 )