United States
epub |eng | 2024-10-08 | Author:Chris Wallace [Wallace, Chris]

* * * The idea of broadcasting presidential debates had taken hold months earlier—well before Nixon and Kennedy became their parties’ candidates. It took congressional action to make it happen. ...
( Category: State & Local October 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-01-17 | Author:Tucker, Phillip Thomas

Chapter II A Fatal Reckoning, February 17, 1865 As mentioned, more than 60,000 battle-hardened soldiers of Sherman’s Army of the Tennessee desired to take their revenge on the beautiful city ...
( Category: Women October 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Powell, Lawrence N. [Powell, Lawrence N.]

8 SLAVERY AND THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY ONE THING WAS CERTAIN about slavery in colonial New Orleans: it was never static. It had a history—which is to say, it changed ...
( Category: Colonial Period October 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-16 | Author:George Fitzhugh [Fitzhugh, George]

* * * CHAPTER XIV. Table of Contents THE NOMADIC BEGGARS AND PAUPER BANDITTI OF ENGLAND. Table of Contents Under various names, such as Proletariat in France, Lazzaroni in Italy, ...
( Category: Fredericksburg September 24,2024 )
mobi |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:J M Hochstetler

Chapter 13 Instinct was to fight her captor, but it was quickly apparent she had not the strength to break his grip. Twisting to look over her shoulder, she sucked ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding September 24,2024 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-24 | Author:Philbrick, Nathaniel [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

Three times Philip had avoided what seemed like certain capture, but he had been driven from his homeland. His original fighting force of approximately 250 warriors was down to 40, ...
( Category: Colonial Period September 22,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Savage, Michael [Savage, Michael]

Chapter 8 Tyranny of Treating Our Friends Like Enemies and Our Enemies Like Friends In the 1950s, when I was growing up, they were called eggheads. Today they’re called nerds. ...
( Category: 21st Century September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Kendi, Ibram X. [Kendi, Ibram X.]

AN ARMISTICE SIGNED on November 11, 1918, ended the fighting in World War I. It took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference for colonial powers to come ...
( Category: Black & African Americans September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-10 | Author:Kiernan, Denise [Kiernan, Denise]

* * * Losses and blockades had taken their toll early in 1865, and more and more Confederate troops had begun deserting. Though not yet ratified, the Thirteenth Amendment to ...
( Category: Women September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-18 | Author:Dolin, Eric Jay [Dolin, Eric Jay]

CHAPTER 8 The Gentleman Pirate and Blackbeard Blackbeard as portrayed in the 1726 edition of Johnson’s A General History of the Pyrates. BETWEEN THE CRASH OF THE WHYDAH AT THE ...
( Category: Colonial Period September 12,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-18 | Author:Kruse, Kevin M. [Kruse, Kevin M.]

14 White Backlash Lawrence B. Glickman On September 27, 1966, CBS Reports aired a documentary called Black Power–White Backlash. The documentary began with chants of “Black Power” followed by Mike ...
( Category: Immigrants September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 1999-02-01 | Author:Hamilton, Alexander & Madison, James & Jay, John [Hamilton, Alexander & Madison, James & Jay, John]

They possess a general authority to regulate trade with foreign countries. This is a mean which has been practiced to that end by all the principal commercial nations; who have ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding September 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Flood, Charles Bracelen [Flood, Charles Bracelen]

During the time that Sherman was conducting what became known as the Meridian Campaign, Grant wrote a brief letter to Julia. In it he said, “It now looks as if ...
( Category: Reconstruction September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1964-01-01 | Author:Fleming, Thomas [Fleming, Thomas]

Twenty-four men, armed and armored as before and under Miles Standish’s command, boarded the shallop and the longboat. Those in the longboat were to go ashore and march down the ...
( Category: Colonial Period September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-09-15 | Author:Lindsay M. Chervinsky

( Category: Revolution & Founding September 8,2024 )