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epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Victoria M. Grieve

Figure 3.2 Franklin translated American classics into Arabic, including Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Franklin Book Programs, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. Franklin’s ...
( Category: 1950s October 2,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-07 | Author:Dominic A. Pacyga [Pacyga, Dominic A.]

Saint Michael’s Church, seen from Russell Square Park on Eighty-Third Street. The neo-Gothic structure was built during the pastorate of Bishop Paul Rhode, the first Polish American Bishop of the ...
( Category: Immigrants October 2,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Lesley J. Gordon

“A LESSON IN PATRIOTISM” If their unheroic performance at Antietam could be recast as heroic, so too could their dehumanizing captivity at Andersonville. Members intent on recounting their individual and ...
( Category: Civil War October 2,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-14 | Author:Jo Allison

THE HUMAN ZOO The visitors’ guide to the fair promoted it as “an exhibit of processes, rather than of products”—meaning, apparently, that the fair was a showcase of living exhibits. ...
( Category: Immigration October 2,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-28 | Author:Mike Wright [Wright, Mike]

Cowboys bring to mind America’s Wild West. The word cowboy itself, however, goes back much further and even to a different country. In the Gaelic language of Ireland, it was ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 2,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Stashower

11 STEEL AND BONE CAN YOU HELP POLICE CAPTURE AMERICA’S GREATEST MASS MURDERER, THE FIEND WHO KILLED TEN AND LEFT NO CLEWS? Official Detective Stories magazine, November 15, 1937 On ...
( Category: 20th Century October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Nancy M. Beasley

Politics and the Church In answer to Kellogg’s prayers, in July of 1841, the Rev. David I. Perry arrived in Sycamore unsolicited and unannounced. He carried with him “letters of ...
( Category: Abolition October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:James H. Ellis

Statue of Mercy Otis Warren on the lawn of the Superior Courthouse, Barnstable. Courtesy of John Burke. Mercy retreated to her desk and writing, always a comfort. Her book needed ...
( Category: State & Local October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Bernard Bailyn [Bailyn, Bernard]

Though economic groups sought expression in the colonial Assemblies, there were no “functional groupings” in this English sense in pre-Revolutionary America. The economy was too immature, too fresh, too easily ...
( Category: Colonial Period October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:R. B. Bernstein

An iconic figure for all Americans, Washington helped to define the presidency by his eight years in that office. To a greater extent than any later president, except perhaps Franklin ...
( Category: Colonial Period October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Lee Lewis [Lewis, Charles]

XXII FORCING THE ENTRANCE TO MOBILE BAY 1 IT RAINED hard near sundown on August 4, but by midnight it was clear and hot, with a very light breeze just ...
( Category: Naval Operations October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:John R. Wunder

CHAPTER 5 Chinese Laundries and the Fourteenth Amendment Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 US 356 (1886) In the summer of 1885, Yick Wo and over 150 other Chinese residents of ...
( Category: Asian American October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-14 | Author:Samuel K. Dolan

A familiar figure in and around El Paso, New Mexico lawman Pat Garrett was serving as the Sheriff of Doña Ana County when Geronimo Parra was finally brought to El ...
( Category: State & Local September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Ethan A.. Schmidt

THE CHICKASAW WAR FOR AUTONOMY The Chickasaws occupied a very important place in British strategy at the outbreak of the Revolution, and the British were quite certain that Chickasaw loyalty ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-23 | Author:S. E. Schlosser

15 The Contract DEFIANCE Jean-Claude Dubois did not like Sherman, the fussy little businessman who sat across the table from him at the best eating establishment in this backwater town. ...
( Category: Midwest September 30,2022 )