Social Sciences
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Larry Koger

Chapter Eight Free Black Artisans: A Need for Labor At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there existed a small but vibrant class of free black artisans in the urban ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 18,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Reidy, Joseph P.;

Chapter 8 The Blessings of a Home In late March 1864, Henry Clay Bruce and his fiancée executed a bold escape from their owners in central Missouri to Leavenworth, Kansas. ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Ira Berlin

My father took me away from my mother when at age of six weeks old and gave me to my grandmother, who was real old at the time. Jus’ befo’ ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Darién J. Davis

By late 1909, Previsión’s tone had turned virulent as it became obvious that the new Liberal administration that followed the second U.S. occupation would not bring fundamental change for Afro-Cubans. ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ady Barkan [Ady Barkan]

Four years earlier, when we moved from New Haven to Queens, Rachael had spent the summer in China on a language fellowship. I had done all the packing and driven ...
( Category: Social Work September 17,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Douglas Murray

YESTERDAY IT WASN’T LIKE THIS Part of the madness of all this is that the desirable destination had been so nearly reached. In recent decades it had already become completely ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism September 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Mike German

9 TARGETING INNOCENT “OTHERS” The FBI’s “preventative” approach to addressing national security threats requires identifying the suspect communities from which they believe these threats emerge and employing its disruption strategies ...
( Category: Asian September 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-28 | Author:Charles W. Chesnutt

“Co’se Brer Dan couldn’ do nuffin. He knowed it wa’n’t no use, but he clumb up on de chimbly en got down de go’ds en bottles en yuther cunjuh fixin’s, ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 16,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:E. Pauline Johnson

Point Grey “Have you ever sailed around Point Grey?” asked a young Squam­ish tillicum of mine who of­ten comes to see me, to share a cup of tea and a ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology September 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Kerry Hudson

17 Hetton-le-Hole 2018 The trip to Hetton-le-Hole didn’t start normally. It started at an award ceremony in Newcastle where I was to present some writing prizes that I’d judged. It ...
( Category: Poverty September 14,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Amir Alexander [Alexander, Amir]

Pariah in Paris In 1838 the Duke of Bordeaux reached majority, ending Cauchy’s role at the exiled court. Eight long years of exile had taken their toll on the mathematician, ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology September 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:James Poniewozik [Poniewozik, James]

FOX SERVED AS a kind of test-market for Trump’s political opinions, a real-time feedback mechanism to see what best unleashed the gut passions of the audience and kept the camera ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-11 | Author:Nicole Boles

7 USE YOUR Time “God and angels don’t get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers.” —Cherishe Archer “I don’t have time.” ...
( Category: Job Hunting September 12,2019 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

None of this makes sense. Alcohol is a powerful drug. It disinhibits. It breaks down the set of constraints that hold our behavior in check. That’s why it doesn’t seem ...
( Category: Study Guides September 12,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Janice Oberding

Governor’s Mansion The state of Nevada’s birthday falls on Halloween, October 31. This is why the Governor’s Mansion in Carson City is lavishly decorated with ghosts, goblins, and all manner ...
( Category: Ghosts & Hauntings September 10,2019 )