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Women of Two Countries : German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890 by Michaela Bank
pdf |en | | Author: Michaela Bank

( Category: Immigrants August 4,2023 )
The Accidental Revolutionary : George Whitefield and the Creation of America by Jerome Dean Mahaffey
pdf |en | | Author: Jerome Dean Mahaffey

( Category: Colonial Period August 4,2023 )
Misconceptions about the Tuskegee Airmen by Daniel Haulman
epub |eng | 2023-08-15 | Author:Daniel Haulman

24 The misconception that Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee flew more combat missions than any other pilot in the Air Force, or more combat missions than any other Air Force fighter ...
( Category: Black & African Americans August 4,2023 )
Remember Their Sacrifice by Arif Khatib & Pete Elman
epub |eng | 2022-10-20 | Author:Arif Khatib & Pete Elman

11 Sistas on the Links of Love Janet Johnson In 2007, Janet Johnson had a revelation and then an idea, one that was borne of tragedy but has become one ...
( Category: Black & African Americans August 4,2023 )
America's Forgotten Suffragists by Nicole Evelina
epub |eng | 2022-11-11 | Author:Nicole Evelina

Because women were considered a special class of citizens—placing them below white men just as the Dred Scott case did with Black men—it meant that only a constitutional amendment could ...
( Category: Women August 4,2023 )
Behind Brothel Doors by Jan MacKell Collins
epub |eng | 2022-10-07 | Author:Jan MacKell Collins

Not everyone was happy with Annie’s choices. In January of 1912, an attorney from Sacramento, California, Albert Pait, placed an ad in the Daily Bee claiming Annie was really Margaret ...
( Category: Midwest August 4,2023 )
Remarkable Arizona Women by Wynne Brown
epub |eng | 2022-09-03 | Author:Wynne Brown

When she takes her seat in the House of Representatives, which she will do as surely as the sun rises and sets, she will be one of the real leaders ...
( Category: Southwest August 4,2023 )
Yellow Fever on Galveston Island by Jan Johnson
epub |eng | 2022-08-15 | Author:Jan Johnson

Younger Sealy brother George rose to shareholder in elder brother John’s company within two years. Courtesy of the Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas. By age eighteen, George had risen to station ...
( Category: Southwest August 2,2023 )
Blowback by Miles Taylor
epub |eng | 2023-07-18 | Author:Miles Taylor

* * * On the way home from my truncated January wedding in Latin America, I hoped to find normalcy back at the office. Little had changed while I was ...
( Category: State & Local August 1,2023 )
Salem Witchcraft: Volumes I-II by Charles Wentworth Upham
epub |eng | 2006-02-24 | Author:Charles Wentworth Upham [Upham, Charles Wentworth]

The presence of Ann Putnam, the mother, on this occasion; the statement from her, read by Mr. Parris; and the terrible sufferings she exhibited, produced, no doubt, a deep effect ...
( Category: Colonial Period July 31,2023 )
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Pauline Maier [Maier, Pauline]

CHAPTER IV American Scripture RESPONSIBILITY FOR DISTRIBUTING the Declaration of Independence fell to Congress’s president, John Hancock. He executed that job with none of the anxiety that had gripped him ...
( Category: Colonial Period July 31,2023 )
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James Horn
epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:James Horn [Horn, James]

BY MID AUGUST, much of the repair and building work at the colonists’ settlement was completed. The men and boys probably moved into Lane’s old houses, and the Archards, Dares, ...
( Category: Colonial Period July 31,2023 )
The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail by Larry E. Morris
epub |eng | 2013-07-06 | Author:Larry E. Morris [Morris, Larry E.]

“Mr. Fox,” bellowed the captain, “if you are afraid of water, you should have remained at Boston.” Fox said no more, simply ordered the boat lowered. But “if the crew ...
( Category: State & Local July 31,2023 )
The Real Cowboys & Aliens: UFO Encounters of the Old West by Noe Torres
epub |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Noe Torres [Torres, Noe]

1856 Illustration of a Sea Monster (Wikimedia) By now, the other fishermen and the surveyors were awake and could also see the disturbance occurring in the water. Approaching the shore ...
( Category: Old West July 31,2023 )
The Great Conspiracy: What Led Us to the Civil War by John Alexander Logan
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Alexander Logan [Logan, John Alexander]

The Great Conspiracy Bridge,—and who says: “Before reaching the point we designed to occupy (near the Stone Bridge) we were met by another order to march immediately to Manassas Junction, ...
( Category: Abolition July 31,2023 )

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