United States
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Princeton Review

Immigrants Between 1900 and 1915, America experienced its largest ever influx of immigrants. More than 15 million people, mostly from southern and eastern Europe, moved to the United States. This ...
( Category: SAT March 13,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-07 | Author:Susan Stryker [Stryker, Susan]

WE DEMAND 1. Abolition of all cross-dressing laws and restrictions of adornment. 2. An end to exploitation and discrimination within the gay world. 3. An end to exploitation practices of ...
( Category: LGBT March 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Helen Boyd

The notion that it’s difficult to be male isn’t news to me. Whenever I’ve read or heard jokes by women about men, something in me has felt a little sad ...
( Category: Sexuality December 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-10 | Author:Daniel P. Murphy

* * * American Economy of the 1920s: Roots of the Great Depression The vast majority of Americans in 1929 foresaw a continuation of the dizzying economic growth that had ...
( Category: Advanced Placement November 10,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:John D'Emilio

CHAPTER FOURTEEN “Ours Is Not a World-Shaking Project” 1960-1962 DEVASTATING AS THE BREAK with King was, Rustin’s situation was very different from what he had confronted after Pasadena. This time ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 5,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Linda Hirshman

The Long Way What a way it had been. Mixner, raised in the 1940s on a farm in rural New Jersey, like Clinton in Hot Springs, Arkansas, grew up without ...
( Category: Social Policy September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:John Strausbaugh

( Category: LGBT June 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Michael Bronski [Bronski, Michael]

Eight. Sex in the Trenches It is impossible to overestimate the effect of World War II on American culture, and in particular on lesbians and gay men. The United States ...
( Category: LGBT June 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Schama, Simon [Schama, Simon]

THE WORK WOULD ENDURE; but what tribulations had been sent his way! In Charleston, in October 1782, David George, his wife, Phyllis, and their four children had been swallowed up ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-11-18 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

Or if one were searching for a classic rendering of the principle of free speech, no American statesman had ever put it so succinctly: “If there be any among us ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 7,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Henry M. Paulson, [PAULSON, JR., HENRY M.]

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Monday, September 15, had been grim. But on Tuesday, all hell broke loose. Normally I left home by 5:45 a.m., went to my gym, and ran ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 7,2017 )
epub | | 1973-12-21 | Author:Joseph Wambaugh [Wambaugh, Joseph]

Pierce Brooks, during the days to follow, talked individually many times to both of them, on virtually every crucial point, until one of them verified each event told by Karl ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem June 7,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

the shining torch of the sun fell into the ocean. * * * VIII THE HIGHLAND LIGHT This light-house, known to mariners as the Cape Cod or Highland Light, is ...
( Category: United States June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Mark Sundeen

Nine The story of Detroit is not complete without the story of the suburbs. Indeed, the origins of the back-to-the-land movement aren’t so different from those of the suburbs. With ...
( Category: United States May 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:William D. Cohan

On the afternoon of May 22, 1969, Dan Lufkin, the thirty-six-year-old cofounder of a small research-focused investment banking and brokerage firm, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, or DLJ, walked into his ...
( Category: Banks & Banking May 26,2017 )