United States
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Blaine L. Pardoe

THE WRECK ON M-66 Driving faster Driving past the scenery On pretty view and I feel as though I’ve Got to control my Reckless need to speed and speed. –“Speeding,” ...
( Category: Midwest January 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Tim Rowland

CHAPTER 6 Treasury Girls—The Original Rosie Riveters The North didn’t win the Civil War because it had better soldiers, it won because it had better bureaucrats. By definition, the Confederate ...
( Category: Women January 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Frye Gaillard [Gaillard, Frye]

Franklin Gaillard, December 31, 1861 As 1861 drew to a close, Franklin Gaillard was still optimistic about the war, even as he was beginning to feel its rigors. Dear Maria ...
( Category: Civil War January 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-11-30 | Author:Peter Padfield [Padfield, Peter]

“While I was below with the officers, three of my men who had been very unruly during the passage, finding some of their old shipmates in the boat, declared themselves ...
( Category: 19th Century January 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-26 | Author:Katie Hickman

12 Utopias While all went west to make a better life for themselves—some to find gold, others lured by the promise of land—the Mormons were looking for wealth of a ...
( Category: West January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:R. Wayne Ayers

The Palm Walk that ran between the Royal Poinciana and The Breakers was reserved exclusively for pedestrians. Wheeled vehicles used the adjacent trail. Lined with palm trees and other exotic ...
( Category: Gilded Age January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-04 | Author:Sean Kingsley & Simcha Jacobovici

THE NIAGARA FALLS On Lake Michigan, Alannah, Kramer, Kinga, Josh and Richard were closing in on their first dive in the Great Lakes. Saladin Allah had told the team that ...
( Category: Black & African Americans January 1,2023 )
pdf | | 2020-11-10 | Author:Valinda W. Littlefield

( Category: Abolition January 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-09 | Author:Sergeant Daniel Tyler

Lieutenant Willis, writing from memory of the incidents of the Battalion, says: “Active preparations now commenced to carry into effect the Colonel’s orders, and by 4 o’clock of the same ...
( Category: Civil War December 24,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Knight Lozano [Knight Lozano, Henry]

Spanish Fantasy Future In Southern California this mythology took shape with what Carey McWilliams has termed the “Spanish Fantasy Past” because this fantasy whitewashed historical realities in sanitized stories of ...
( Category: West December 24,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Myers [Myers, Sheila]

19 Ella Durant I knew if I didn’t act fast I might lose my chance to claim my land due to William’s mishandling of the estate. So I followed Poultney’s ...
( Category: Gilded Age December 24,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Jeffrey H. Hacker [Hacker, Jeffrey H.]

Chapter 18, Criticism and Fiction (excerpt), 1891 As a literary critic, editor, and novelist in his own right, William Dean Howells was the foremost proponent of literary realism in America. ...
( Category: Gilded Age December 23,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Wuthnow

SIX The Changing Face of Agribusiness Juana was ten the year she started first grade in southwest Kansas. She could not read or write in any language. She spoke no ...
( Category: 1950s December 23,2022 )
pdf | | 2022-12-13 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Black & African Americans December 23,2022 )
pdf | | 2013-11-15 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Gettysburg December 22,2022 )