History & Criticism
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-28 | Author:Ann Napolitano

KELLY My heart has been heavy since I found out that my oldest daughter has ruined her life and embarrassed herself. Since hearing the news, everything has been shuffled up ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

CHAPTER SEVEN In Power When James Madison first arrived in Washington in the spring of 1801, it was nowhere. The federal government had moved to its latest site in the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jon Meacham

CHAPTER 22 HE APPEARED TO FEEL AS A FATHER “UNCLE’S HEALTH IS as usual,” Emily wrote her mother in the spring of 1833. He was, she said, “often complaining.… He ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:William T. Sherman

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, April 24, 1864. Lieutenant-General GRANT, commanding Armies of the United States, Culpepper, Virginia. GENERAL: I now have, at the hands of Colonel ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-10-25 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHASE, UNLIKE LINCOLN, was never able to forgo his statesmanlike persona and simply enjoy conversations and lighter amusements. He was inclined to let things fester, brooding over perceived slights and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Doris May Lessing

OVER THE RAINBOW In Harare they talk endlessly about the new agreement over Namibia in the same way we do about the ending of the Iran–Iraq War, and the end ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Marie Arana

THE EARTH WAS always moving in those days. Pachamama was temperamental, moody, shifting her weight heavily beneath us, tossing from side to side. My mother and father were pricked with ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Maya Angelou

Power of the Word Many things continue to amaze me, even well into the sixth decade of my life. I’m startled or taken aback when people walk up to me ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Tom Reiss

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Christopher McDougall

CHAPTER 23 WE WHEEZED into Creel well after nightfall, the bus shuddering to a stop with a hiss from the brakes like a sigh of relief. Outside the window, I ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Andrea Di Robilant

The trumpets blare, The proud horseman Enters the arena. He has a natural instinct for battle: He stiffens his chest, his arms and feet, And firmly holds his steed. The ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-23 | Author:Stephanie Madoff Mack

Nineteen days later, Mark tried to kill himself. It was a beautiful Wednesday in October, and my mom and I had gone with Audrey on a preschool class trip to ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-04-14 | Author:Azar Nafísi

9 The meeting with Mrs. Rezvan had thrown me off balance. She was like an intermediary pleading on behalf of an unfaithful and unforgotten lover, pledging complete loyalty in return ...
( Category: Feminist March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Maclean, Norman [Maclean, Norman]

A few summers ago, thirty years after the fire, I sent what I hoped was gentle word through a common friend to a mother of one of the Mann Gulch ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Susan Orlean

Plant Crimes Plants disappear all the time in south Florida. So do most other living things. One day after my trip to Kerry’s Bromeliads, after all the Elaines had disappeared, ...
( Category: Orchids March 25,2014 )