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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
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 )
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild by Lee Sandlin
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 )
1812: The Navy's War by George C. Daughan
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 ...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1992-10-15 | Author:James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me 6. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of... Perhaps the most telling criticism Frances FitzGerald made in her 1979 survey of American history textbooks, ...
( Category: Arts & Humanities March 25,2014 )
Villains of All Nations by Marcus Rediker
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Marcus Rediker

In 1718, in his opening remarks in the trial of Stede Bonnet and crew in Charleston, Richard Allen, attorney general of South Carolina, explained that piracy “is a Crime so ...
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