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epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:James S. Robbins

LAURENCE SIMMONS BAKER WRITING LONG AFTER THE EVENTS at Gettysburg, Henry Heth echoed what was by then a common critique of the battle: “The failure to crush the Federal army ...
( Category: American Civil War February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 1988-07-15 | Author:Susan Kellogg

A family picnics outside their new 1949 Ford station wagon. Courtesy of the collections of Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. CHAPTER IX The Golden Age: Families of the 1950s ...
( Category: Social Sciences February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kai Bird

Michael Forrestal later recalled a conversation he had with Kennedy which, if true, suggests that the president was indeed struggling in his own thinking toward a neutralist-withdrawal solution for Vietnam. ...
( Category: Leadership February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Kahn

Jack Dempsey Knocked Out In One Round! Around the world, British colonialism, dominant throughout the nineteenth century, was coming under pressure. The first Indian parliament convened at New Delhi. It ...
( Category: United States February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Amy Gutmann

THE HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS In 1994 the Albuquerque Tribune’s Eileen Welsome won the Pulitzer Prize for documenting long-rumored injections of hospitalized patients with plutonium during and immediately after World War ...
( Category: Medical Ethics February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-01 | Author:Roy Jr. Morris

IN SOUTH CAROLINA, as in Louisiana, the Democratic candidate for governor made a concerted effort to appeal to black voters. Like Francis Nicholls, Wade Hampton was a much wounded former ...
( Category: Elections February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Feinstein

George and Ira arriving in Los Angeles in 1936. As in all things, interpretation comes down to a matter of taste, on the part of both the performer and the ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-23 | Author:Dennis Hale

THE JURY SELECTION AND SERVICE ACT OF 1968 Although racial discrimination was the immediate concern of the Rabinowitz decision, the 1967 hearings on jury reform targeted discretion itself. All “discriminations” ...
( Category: Judicial Branch February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Jacobs Brumberg

♦♦♦ Over the next four hours, Stoll and Taggart made their summaries to the twelve-man jury empowered to decide Charley’s fate. Each side now had the chance to rehash its ...
( Category: United States February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David A. Nichols

MISLEADING THE AMBASSADORS Ambassadors Aldrich in London and Dillon in Paris present a case study in ambassadorial misjudgment. They completely missed the signals that the allies had agreed upon a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christina Shelton

PART THREE #xa0; Accused and Convicted XI. THE CASE #xa0; Hiss: Chambers Was Able to Carry Out Forgery by Typewriter #xa0; DURING THE CONGRESSIONAL hearings, the grand jury sessions, and ...
( Category: History & Theory February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-17 | Author:Vieira, Jim & Newman, Hugh

Skeleton of A Very Large Person, All Double Teeth Ironton Register, May 5,1892 Proctorville, Ohio This tantalising report not only mentions a giant skeleton, but suggests an ancient, sophisticated settlement ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard L. Hasen

4 “Stolen” “So this year, we have an election coming up on November 8th. So important that you get out and vote. So important that you watch other communities, because ...
( Category: Elections February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Craig Unger

It was in this brazen and grandiose context that Brent Scowcroft, perhaps not conniving enough for his times, stepped out of the shadows and, in his quiet deliberate manner, began ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Alter

The “fear itself” phrase brought forth little crowd or press reaction. Within days it began being quoted more often but it didn’t become famous until the 1936 campaign, when Democrats ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 23,2020 )