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The Historic Unfulfilled Promise by Howard Zinn
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

18. The Logic of Withdrawal January 2004 A note of explanation: In the spring of 1967, my book Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal was published by Beacon Press. It was ...
( Category: United States September 20,2019 )
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
epub, mobi, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2008-04-09 | Author:Douglas A. Blackmon [Blackmon, Douglas A.]

Until the day of the arraignments, most of Alabama’s political elite and the white general public had imagined that the slavery investigation was entirely the handiwork of the White House ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 6,2019 )
The Black Panthers by Gina DiNicolo
epub |eng | | Author:Gina DiNicolo

It became obvious that no one controlled the tank support. Though Barbour's tanks fired, they had no designated targets and did not fire in support of any specific infantry actions. ...
( Category: United States September 5,2019 )
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub | | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

Chapter III above.] [Note 34: _Robert Hunter, Sheriff of Dumbarton_. Hunter recognised the genius in Stevenson long before the latter became known to the world, and gave him much friendly ...
( Category: Essays August 7,2019 )
Water Wars by Vandana Shiva
epub |eng | 2016-05-27 | Author:Vandana Shiva

CHAPTER FOUR The World Bank, the WTO, and Corporate Control Over Water Giant water projects, in most cases, benefit the powerful and dispossess the weak. Even when such projects are ...
( Category: Environmental May 27,2019 )
Ann Petry by Ann Petry
epub |eng | 2018-11-07 | Author:Ann Petry

7 * * * LINK HAD FINISHED EATING his breakfast. Abbie Crunch said, “I wish you’d—” stopped, said, “I—” and never finished what she was going to say. They both ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2019 )
The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump by Gregg Jarrett
azw3, pdf |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:Gregg Jarrett [Jarrett, Gregg]

The Kislyak Meeting at Trump Tower In May 2017, the Washington Post ignited a media firestorm by publishing a story that Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn met with the Russian ...
( Category: History & Theory December 9,2018 )
Welcome to Fairyland by Julio Capó Jr
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Julio Capó Jr.

Prosecuting Deviance In addition to race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the policing and prosecuting of same-sex sexual acts also took form in relation to questions of normalcy and deviancy that ...
( Category: LGBT April 11,2018 )
1968 in America by Charles Kaiser
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-04 | Author:Charles Kaiser

Thursday he slept almost until noon. When he got up, he was in a volatile mood. He discussed the next march through Memphis, scheduled for Monday. Despite his fears that ...
( Category: LGBT April 7,2018 )
Love Wins by Debbie Cenziper
epub |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Debbie Cenziper

14 TWENTY-ONE YEARS FROM MIDNIGHT AL LOVED to sue people. It was the surest way to make the law work for the weak, the most satisfying kind of advocacy. On ...
( Category: United States April 6,2018 )
13 12 by Nevada Barr
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nevada Barr [Barr, Nevada]

LOUISIANA, 2007 Andrea Yates. Drowns five kids. I can’t condemn the woman. I can’t even get up a good steam of outrage. How can anybody blame her? She’s young, alone, ...
( Category: Murder March 18,2018 )
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Richard A. McKay [McKay, Richard A.]

Figure 4.4 Artwork accompanying the serialized “Patient Zero” story, Chicago Tribune, November 1, 1987, sec. Tempo, 1, Randy Shilts Papers (GLC 43), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library. Framed image ...
( Category: LGBT March 18,2018 )
AP U.S. History Prep Plus 2018-2019 by Kaplan Test Prep
epub |eng | | Author:Kaplan Test Prep

( Category: Advanced Placement March 15,2018 )
Secrets by John D
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:John D

Chapter XII Katherine stood in the doorway and looked nervously at her parents, she could feel her heart beating furiously and she closed her eyes and clenched her fists. “Mum,” ...
( Category: United States March 14,2018 )
Plane Queer by Tiemeyer Phil;
epub |eng | | Author:Tiemeyer, Phil;

FIGURE 11. This reproduction simplifies the 1985 domestic route system of United Airlines, which at the time was America’s largest airline. Even as it omits certain routes, the image nonetheless ...
( Category: United States March 13,2018 )

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