United States
epub |eng | 2008-06-10 | Author:Robert Whitaker [Whitaker, Robert]

SCIPIO JONES ENTERED THIS world of black leadership at the very moment that whites in Arkansas—and the rest of the South—began setting up their Jim Crow society. Arkansas passed literacy ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Charlotte Gray

There seems a lot of grumbling from the golfers by the sea, Who follow little pilules round the course at Cable B., They criticize the livestock browsing quietly on the ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Martha Finley [Unbekannt]

"And I too," said Violet; "he is a very acceptable addition to the family. My dear, home does look exceedingly attractive to me, as well as to the children. But ...
( Category: United States February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-19 | Author:William J. Cooper

CHAPTER 7 — “The First and Holiest Rights of Humanity” JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WOULD BECOME A LUMINARY IN CONGRESS during the middle and late 1830s. As the first former president ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-19 | Author:Leslie G. Kelen

The Photographers Interviews and Biographies Tamio Wakayama Tamio Wakayama was born on April 3, 1941, a few months before the outbreak of the Pacific War. He and his family were ...
( Category: Photo Essays February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-06 | Author:Gonzalez, George A. [Gonzalez, George A.]

Conclusion The United States undermined its national energy security by promoting, fostering, and maintaining sprawled urban zones (as described in the last chapter). Even when it was evident that the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Mason Funk

Another time, a woman’s possessions had been put into the street, and my little sister came home and said, “Let’s go down there. It’s all in the garbage.” Well, they ...
( Category: LGBT February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:RICHARD REEVES

CHAPTER 24 October 21, 1971 JOHN ANDREWS was the designated anecdotalist standing behind President Nixon on September 30 at a White House reception for finance ministers and other officials in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Elizabeth M. Sharpe

While Fred waited, he worked on his father’s farm and for Warner cleaning up the button mill lot. Fred prepared himself for the worst, confiding in his brother: “If Warner ...
( Category: United States February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Ivo H. Daalder & I. M. Destler

At first blush, Brent Scowcroft did not look the part as one of the most powerful personas in the Bush administration. Balding, gray-haired, just five feet eight in his stocking ...
( Category: United States February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew J. Bacevich

6 STATE OF THE UNION What sort of place was America in 2016 as the post–Cold War era reached the quarter-century mark? With the nation bracing itself for another presidential ...
( Category: History & Theory February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Allen C. Guelzo

The debate at Charleston marked the end of the third phase of the Lincoln-Douglas campaigns, as well as the end of the only swing either candidate would bother to make ...
( Category: History & Theory February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Fergus M. Bordewich

* * * — The session, in the generous words of weary Republican senator James Doolittle of Wisconsin, was “the most laborious, the most momentous, in our whole history.” Its ...
( Category: Political Parties February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Charlotte Alter

* * * In the weeks after Trump’s election, New York was in a deep funk. The subway was full of people wincing at news alerts on their phones; coffee ...
( Category: Political Science February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-23 | Author:Gordon Corera

18 Decision Time IN MOSCOW, ALEXANDER Poteyev was growing nervous. A decade of clandestine meetings and the passing of secrets shredded your nerves. He had become worried the spy-catchers were ...
( Category: Espionage February 18,2020 )