Women in History
epub |eng | 2010-07-18 | Author:Helen Castor [Helen Castor]

2 Dearest and Most Powerful ‘Our King Edward has now reigned six full years’, the author of the Vita wrote in 1313, ‘and has till now achieved nothing praiseworthy or ...
( Category: England July 19,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Jung Chang [Chang, Jung]

20 A Plot to Kill Cixi (September 1898) WILD FOX KANG had been hatching plots to kill Cixi for some time, knowing that she stood between him and supreme power. ...
( Category: China June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Sarah Gwyneth Ross [Ross, Sarah Gwyneth]

206 The Household Salon, 1580–1680 Changing Personae Fonte and Marinella also underscore a significant shift in the ways in which women presented themselves. While their humanist predecessors most often emphasized ...
( Category: Renaissance June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 1993-05-31 | Author:Anne Frank [Frank, Anne]

I think Mother believes that Margot and I have a better relationship with our parents than anyone in the whole wide world, and that no mother is more involved in ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-11 | Author:Frances Osborne [Osborne,Frances]

Toby and his “wives,” Chefoo, 1928. Lilla is on the left. The waterfront, Shanghai As Toby was saluted into the Shanghai harbor on the prow of a battleship, Ada and ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Hanna Levy-Hass

3 B. B. | December 1944 I thought it was the end, that I wouldn’t have anything more to write down.… But there is no end. There isn’t one. The ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Wendy Holden [Holden, Wendy]

The memorial to the dead of KZ Freiberg Priska, as tired and hungry as the rest of the inmates, stubbornly refused to allow thoughts of death to enter her mind. ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Janice P. Nimura [Nimura, Janice P.]

BY THE END of that first spring, Ume despaired of ever repaying the debt she owed Japan. On bad days, she expressed her unhappiness in the same bleak terms Sutematsu ...
( Category: Japan June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Steve Inskeep [Inskeep, Steve]

We . . . hope yet to have a full account of what happened in the three or four last days of the session. Just as General Jackson had once ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 11,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Deborah K. King Deborah King, associate professor of sociology at Dartmouth College, is completing a book on the enforcement of affirmative action policies in American higher education. Her groundbreaking essay, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Malissa Smith

The latter issue of appearances became a theme in many of the articles, from the standpoint of not wanting to see women get hurt to purported squeamishness by the boxers ...
( Category: Women in History June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

Esen had united the Mongols and defeated the Muslim ruler and the Ming emperor, but in the most important confrontation of his career, he could not overcome the determined will ...
( Category: Asia June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-25 | Author:Kay Bailey Hutchison

Latina Performers LATINA PERFORMERS GRAPPLED with obstacles similar to those with which African-American singers and actors contended. In the early years of Hollywood, before the advent of sound and even ...
( Category: Women in History June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

A few weeks later Josh, Kate, their little daughter Evelyn, Bob, Brittany, and Debbie White said goodbye to Ashley in Fayetteville just before her deployment. Two days afterward, it was ...
( Category: Afghan War May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Charlotte Gordon [Gordon, Charlotte]

Suicide had become more than an escape from suffering; it was a leap into eternal life. Feeling firm in her convictions and holding on to her vision of immortality, she ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )