World
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Douglas Brinkley
III World War II transformed Alaska, seemingly overnight, from a backwater territory to a major strategic asset that was well worth defending. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese ...
( Category:
State & Local
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-05-04 | Author:Susan Jacoby
If many agnostics attempted to conceal the extent of their participation in the women’s movement, they were entirely open about their role in the battle against late-nineteenth-century censorship. There was ...
( Category:
General
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick
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:
State & Local
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Charles Mann
Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...
( Category:
Colonial Period
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-16 | Author:Ken Gormley
THE final weeks of January, after the Lewinsky story erupted in the media, were among the most fast-moving in American political history. On the same day that “Unabomber” Theodore J. ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tom Brokaw
Martha Settle Putney Her all-black unit of medical technicians was to be housed near Gardner General Hospital, not too far from Chicago’s tony Lake Shore Drive. The Army had built ...
( Category:
World War II
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Lucy Moore
Not every American was seduced by the Ku Klux Klan. The journalist William Allen White described the Klan to a colleague as “a self-constituted body of moral idiots.” The trouble ...
( Category:
World
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Mark Kurlansky
CHAPTER 12 MONSIEUR, WE THINK YOU ARE ROTTEN A man is not either stupid or intelligent, he is either free or not free. —Written on a wall of the Faculté ...
( Category:
Rocks & Minerals
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Linda Hunt
William and Mary Bryan’s home in Lincoln, Nebraska, decorated for a celebration during the Presidential election year of 1896. Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections, RG3198:22-6. Detail of this ...
( Category:
Women
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick
The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...
( Category:
History
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Lee Sandlin
If there was a heart to the city, it was down from the old French Quarter, behind the warehouse district at the southwest curve of the waterfront crescent. This was ...
( Category:
Historical Geography
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:George C. Daughan
ON DECEMBER 30, 1813, His Majesty’s packet Bramble, under Lieutenant Pogson, arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, from Plymouth, England, with the momentous news: Napoleon had suffered a near fatal blow at ...
( Category:
Maritime History & Piracy
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-06-27 | Author:David McCullough
The average British regular was in his late twenties, or about five years older than the average American soldier, but the average regular had served five or six years in ...
( Category:
United States
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-11-10 | Author:Clyde Prestowitz
THE ARMED ECONOMY The third important aspect of American militarism is economic. Just as it has sought to keep key countries as quasi-client states, so the United States has sought ...
( Category:
Ideologies & Doctrines
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-12 | Author:Paul Krugman
What those who watch the movie today may not realize is that the words Oliver Stone put in Gordon Gekko’s mouth were strikingly similar to what the leading theorists on ...
( Category:
Economic Policy
March 25,2014 )
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