United States
epub |eng | 2009-10-01 | Author:Jack Trammell [Trammell, Jack]

The Chickahominy River behind the train tracks at Lanexa, Civil War era. Courtesy of the author. Like many places in the South where the opposing armies battled, the environment near ...
( Category: South May 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Carl J. Ekberg, Sharon K. Person [Carl J. Ekberg, Sharon K. Person]

Pétrin and huche were used interchangeably in the Illinois Country for a dough-kneading trough. There was no baker in early St. Louis, and even humble households owned a pétrin or ...
( Category: Colonial Period May 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Robert West Howard [Howard, Robert West]

Spring came. The Casements’ town on wheels clanged into being on the Omaha siding. Timber crews crossed flooded fields 100 miles north and south to begin razing every tree usable ...
( Category: Civil War April 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:David Rosenberg [Rosenberg, David]

WALK Start at St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JN 1. Shoreditch High Street St Leonard’s Church is the latest incarnation of churches that have stood on this spot ...
( Category: Civil War April 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-12 | Author:Maxine Douglas [Douglas, Maxine]

It was a nice summer evening for a walk into town. Peaceful. Quiet. Serene. The sun had moved overhead toward the west where it would eventually set. If they’d stayed ...
( Category: Gilded Age April 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:Robert L. Tonsetic [Tonsetic, Robert L.]

After the American victories at Trenton on December 26, 1776, and Princeton on January 3, 1777, Washington’s army went into winter quarters in the hills around Morristown in northern New ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-24 | Author:Gerald Van Dusen [Dusen, Gerald Van]

THE SEVEN MILE–FENELON HOMEOWNERS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (SMFHIA) An immediate consequence of the Pershing High School meeting was the galvanization of various white interests in torpedoing the black defense housing project. ...
( Category: Black & African Americans April 29,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-01 | Author:Maxine Douglas [Douglas, Maxine]

CHAPTER 11 Auggie woke in the wingback chair he’d fallen asleep in the previous night. His neck had a crick in it, and his once perfectly pressed dress shirt was ...
( Category: Gilded Age April 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-23 | Author:Stuart G. Yates [Yates, Stuart G.]

13 THE LAWMAN West Kansas, 1882 The following day dragged by, Prentis keeping himself busy checking exercise books, all work completed, answers to arithmetic questions all correct, sentences well-constructed. The ...
( Category: Old West April 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:James D. Horan [Horan, James D.]

A meeting was held in September, 1864, at Toronto to plot the capture of the Michigan. Hyams was present. It was agreed that Cole was to lay the groundwork of ...
( Category: Confederacy April 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Linda Tamura [Tamura, Linda]

THE DISCIPLINE BARRACK BOYS RETURN Their hometown's sullied image easily deterred two other GIs. Newly released from Fort Leavenworth's disciplinary barracks in May 1946, neither Fred Sumoge nor Kenjiro Hayakawa ...
( Category: Asian American April 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-24 | Author:Kathryn Watterson [Watterson, Kathryn]

The whole area—they were getting ready to wipe it out. They didn’t care if we had anyplace to go or not, because they wanted it, just like they want it ...
( Category: Black & African Americans April 27,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-12 | Author:Mary Merwin Phelps [Phelps, Mary Merwin]

XII—A PRIVATE CITIZEN SALMON PORTLAND CHASE accepted his downfall with his wonted Christian submission. He suffered, nevertheless, from the thought that his service to his country had been repudiated and ...
( Category: Civil War April 27,2022 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:Thomas E. Pope [Pope, Thomas E.]

Pvt. John Free. Courtesy of Larry Strayer. Sgt. James Howell of Company E fell when a Confederate ball struck and broke his leg. Since he was unable to leave the ...
( Category: Regimental Histories April 27,2022 )