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mobi |eng | 1986-12-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Mark Essig

CHAPTER 15 The Unmasking of Harold Brown ON AUGUST 25, just a few weeks after the hearings ended, the New York Sun published stunning revelations regarding Edison's interest in the ...
( Category: Electricity March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Lee Sandlin

If there was a heart to the city, it was down from the old French Quarter, behind the warehouse district at the southwest curve of the waterfront crescent. This was ...
( Category: Historical Geography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust

“It was my Mother’s customs,” “My gentle Mother dear” “I was my Mother’s darling,” for, I loved my lager beer. “Kiss me good-night, Mother,” and bring me a Bourbon plain— ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Russell S. Bonds

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Heaven or Cincinnati Atlanta Boys, tell them at home, if any of you escape, that I died for my country and did not regret it. —Sergeant Major Marion ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Willrich, Michael [Willrich, Michael]

Immigrants from a smallpox-infected ship, detained in 1901 at the quarantine station on Hoffman Island, N.Y. Photo by Elizabeth Allen Austen. COURTESY OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Along the borders ...
( Category: Epidemiology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Vincent J. Cannato

Chapter 13 Moral Turpitude Poor little me, why did they consider me a dangerous woman? —Vera, Countess of Cathcart, 1926 DRESSED IN A LARGE GREEN FELT HAT WITH A MAT ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Jane Ziegelman

The immigrants’ dining room at Ellis Island, date unknown. National Archives Like the baggage-handlers and money-changers, the Ellis Island food purveyors were private contractors granted the privilege of doing business ...
( Category: Food Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:Ron Suskind

WHEN DAVID OMAND, AMONG THE most astute professionals in counterterrorism, talks of creating a “convincing narrative” about “the better alternative our society offers,” he’s alluding to a large and diffuse ...
( Category: National & International Security March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-18 | Author:Jim Rasenberger

A few weeks after the McNamaras’ arrest, a tall, stooped, unkempt figure walked into their prison cells and introduced himself. The man did not look much like a beacon of ...
( Category: Buildings March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Iris Chang

CHAPTER FIFTEEN New Arrivals, New Lives: The Chaotic 196Os In the 1960s, the Chinese in America may have looked to outsiders like one people with a shared culture, shared traditions, ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Tom Engelhardt

…The structures brought home a sad realization: It’s simply unrealistic to believe that the U.S. military will be able to pull out of the Middle East. It was a week ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Glenn Beck

* * * THE MILLIONAIRE MYTH There’s a pervasive myth among people that we can all click our heels and pretend that taxes don’t matter to the rich. When Florida ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Chris Kyle & William Doyle

The M1911 first saw combat in 1916 when General Pershing drove into Mexico in a fruitless search for rebel leader Pancho Villa, whose troops had looted and burned the town ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )