United States
epub |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Phil West [WEST, PHIL]

The team did have successes that were hard to ignore—namely, its 1976 Soccer Bowl triumph against the Minnesota Kicks in Seattle—but it was ultimately an iteration of the franchise that ...
( Category: History of Sports November 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles B. Dew

Price circular issued by Betts & Gregory, Richmond auctioneers, containing market guidance and showing a range of prices for multiple categories of slave men, women, and children, dated August 2, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Thomas

* Without large distilleries these whiskeys—Trish and Scotch (see Scotch. Nos. 364–366)—cannot be manufactured with profit. It is a humbug to make them with essences, and a nuisance as regards ...
( Category: Spirits September 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:Phillip Thomas Tucker

Failures on the Right Wilcox’s and Lang’s brigades, Anderson’s division, Hill’s 3rd Corps, had been early positioned in support of Alexander’s batteries to Armistead’s rear: the best position to advance ...
( Category: United States September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-12 | Author:David Pilgrim

Preying on Black Women The portrayal of black women as lascivious by nature is an enduring stereotype. The descriptive words associated with this stereotype are singular in their focus: seductive, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism August 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Louisa Thomas

2 IT WAS HER CAMPAIGN for his presidency—and in some ways, the campaign really was hers more than it was his. Her entertainments made “our Congress less dependent on the ...
( Category: United States August 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bradford DeLong [DeLong, Bradford]

The Long Age of Ike is a splendid example of America’s recurrent history of government using whatever means it can muster that fit the situation—changing laws and regulations, extending the ...
( Category: Economic Policy August 7,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Getting There & Away ASubway The sole subway lines here are the 4/5/6 which travel north and south on Lexington Ave. A new stretch of subway track underneath Second Ave ...
( Category: General New York State Travel Guides July 20,2016 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eric Bolling

THE LEFTIST WAR ON HUMANS Today, this history has been turned upside down. The militant Left places more importance on the rights of trees and animals over people. At the ...
( Category: History & Theory July 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-07 | Author:Paul Aron

• • • Hamilton’s death made him a martyr for Federalists and led to an outcry against dueling. Many had already seen it as an aristocratic anachronism; after Weehawken, it ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Peter Bergen

Former CIA case officer Dr. Marc Sageman wrote the influential books Understanding Terrorist Networks (2004) and Leaderless Jihad (2008). He asserted that jihadists unconnected to foreign organizations posed the most ...
( Category: Sociology July 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-02 | Author:Geoff Shepard [Shepard, Geoff]

CHAPTER 7 EVENHANDED, NONPARTISAN PROSECUTORS Equal protection of the law implies even-handed prosecutions for criminal conduct. But highly partisan WSPF prosecutors targeted Nixon’s top aides, charged them with highly questionable ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott

PART VII FIGHTING FOR A JUST WORLD, 1956–59 Pauli Murray (right) confers with an unidentified supporter at an Adlai Stevenson campaign event, New York City, 1956. “Civil rights cannot be ...
( Category: Political June 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Kate Daloz

Myrtle Hill, summer 1971, in front of the dome (note wood panels on top and Drop City–inspired car-top panels on the bottom). Back row (L–R): Fletcher, Jim the Bear, unknown ...
( Category: Sustainable Living June 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Meg Jacobs [Jacobs, Meg]

6 Hot Summer Mad IN EARLY 1979, the White House could see the makings of a political disaster. A few months earlier, in October 1978, strikes in the Iranian oil ...
( Category: History & Theory May 27,2016 )