Women in History
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Brower

Hillary Clinton is redefining what America expects a First Lady to be Bill and Hillary Clinton met at university, and it was she who was expected to have the celebrated ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Beth Bailey & David Farber

If some whites were appalled by the Army-style integration of Burbank, California, many others welcomed their defenders. White stars like Humphrey Bogart and Rosalind Russell befriended the troopers. Bogart told ...
( Category: Women in History February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-13 | Author:Margaret F. Pickett

The Road to Independence When Tom left England in 1771 to visit South Carolina, tensions between the colonies and Great Britain had eased somewhat. The non-importation agreement implemented in 1769 ...
( Category: Women in History February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mona L. Siegel

CHAPTER V May Flowers in China The Feminist Origins of Chinese Nationalism French journalist Andrée Viollis blinked once, then blinked again just to be sure. One of the latest peace ...
( Category: Diplomacy February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-21 | Author:Tobin T. Buhk

The twenty-nine-year-old Queen of Little Hungary became an instant sensation. With the effervescence of bubbles rising to the surface of a champagne flute, Smith entertained reporters with her sharp wit, ...
( Category: Women in History February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Kate Winkler Dawson

* * * — When police asked Schwartz’s wife to identify his body, she had recognized his watch, a sure sign that the man on the table was her husband. ...
( Category: Serial Killers February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-20 | Author:Francesca Wade [Francesca Wade]

Power was not only concerned with an overhaul of domestic policy. Her trip to the Far East in 1920 had expanded her horizons at a time when Europe was in ...
( Category: World War II February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-30 | Author:Hayley Nolan [Nolan, Hayley]

CHAPTER 8 THEN IT ALL WENT WRONG During her first year of marriage, in which Anne threw herself head first into her humanitarianism and many issues of reform, her personal ...
( Category: Women in History February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Serena Zabin

This sketch shows the bodies of the four men killed on King Street. The Bostonian James Bailey said he had spent five or six minutes standing with Private White that ...
( Category: Women in History February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julie Wheelwright

Chapter 7 The Legacy ‘And dost thou ask what fairy had inspired A NYMPH to be with martial glory fired? Or what from art, or yet from nature’s laws, Has ...
( Category: Women in History February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles King

LIKE MANY TRIBAL GROUPS on the northern prairie, the Omaha were relatively recent migrants to the region. At some point in the seventeenth century, they had gradually moved from the ...
( Category: Women in History February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton [Clinton, Hillary Rodham & Clinton, Chelsea]

Tatyana McFadden Chelsea Tatyana McFadden spent the first six years of her life in an orphanage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Born with spina bifida, she was paralyzed from the waist ...
( Category: Women February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Melissa Lukeman Bohrer

Lydia Darragh, the daughter of John Barrington, was born about 1728 and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Little is known of her childhood except that she was part of a large ...
( Category: American Revolution February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:David Cruise & Alison Griffiths

-TEN - Out of Cold Storage VELMA’S SPIRITS LIFTED dramatically in the months that Marguerite Henry rummaged around in the Bronn family history and Velma’s early memories. Henry’s probing functioned ...
( Category: Horses February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amy Richards [Greenberg,Cynthia; Richards,Amy]

ANITA HILL, the youngest of thirteen children from a farm in rural Oklahoma, received her JD from Yale Law School in 1980. She began her career in private practice in ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 19,2020 )