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A History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals by Ed Brandon
epub |eng | 2022-09-29 | Author:Ed Brandon

Cane Hill’s clock tower after closure. (Photograph copyright Marlon Bones) Doubtless many visitors came throughout the 1990s as the site deteriorated and never told of what they found there, nor ...
( Category: Medicine January 15,2023 )
The Split History of the Civil Rights Movement by Nadia Higgins
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Nadia Higgins

A bus is nearly empty during the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott. CHAPTER 2 “WE ARE OCCUPIED TERRITORY” Autherine Lucy prompted an angry white mob when she tried to break the ...
( Category: 20th Century January 15,2023 )
The Split History of the Battle of Fort Sumter by Steven Otfinoski
epub |eng | 2018-02-21 | Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]

BENJAMIN HUGER Benjamin Huger (1805–1877) had the military in his blood. Both of his grandfathers had served during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and one had been killed defending Charleston from ...
( Category: Military & Wars January 15,2023 )
Exploring the History of Medicine by John Hudson Tiner
epub |eng | 2014-02-19 | Author:John Hudson Tiner

Silk growers asked Pasteur to find out why their silkworms were dying. Pasteur discovered by using his microscope that micro-organisms were growing not only on the pepper spots on the ...
( Category: Electricity & Electronics January 15,2023 )
The Split History of the Battle of Gettysburg by Stephanie Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Stephanie Fitzgerald

THE MARCH NORTH Meanwhile, the rest of the Confederate army continued its advance. Ewell’s corps attacked a Union garrison at Winchester on June 13. Within two days they wiped out ...
( Category: History January 15,2023 )
A Primary Source History of the War of 1812 by John Micklos Jr
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:John Micklos Jr. [Micklos, John]

Captain Perry after his victory at the Battle of Lake Erie BRITISH INVASION France surrendered to Britain and its allies in April 1814. With the conflict in Europe ended, Britain ...
( Category: Children's eBooks January 14,2023 )
A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States by Allison Crotzer Kimmel
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Allison Crotzer Kimmel [Kimmel, Allison Crotzer]

the committee report that includes the Missouri Compromise, dated March 1, 1820 THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE TENSION TURNS TO VIOLENCE Tensions over slavery continued to grow between the North and South. ...
( Category: History January 14,2023 )
The Split History of Westward Expansion in the United States by Nell Musolf
epub |eng | 2019-05-28 | Author:Nell Musolf [Musolf, Nell]

LOUISIANA PURCHASE In 1803 the United States increased in size considerably. That was the year the United States bought 828,000 square miles (2.1 million square km) of land from France. ...
( Category: History January 14,2023 )
The Peoples of Middle-earth (The History of Middle-earth, Book 12) by Christopher Tolkien
epub |eng | 2022-12-24 | Author:Christopher Tolkien [Tolkien, Christopher]

( Category: Mythology January 14,2023 )
The Split History of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by Steven Otfinoski
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]

Isoroku Yamamoto Yamamoto spent nearly a decade in the United States between 1919 and 1928. He learned English at Harvard University and later served as an admiral’s aide in the ...
( Category: Asia January 13,2023 )
A Primary Source History of U.S. Independence by Krystyna Poray Goddu
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Krystyna Poray Goddu [Goddu, Krystyna Poray]

Printed in 1775 this map of the British battle plan was drawn by an officer at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Below the map appears a letter written by British ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary January 13,2023 )
The Split History of the Battles of Lexington and Concord by Brenda Haugen
epub |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Brenda Haugen [Haugen, Brenda]

CHAPTER 2 THREATS TO PEACE The British saw the colonists’ acts of rebellion as threats to peace. British officials hoped the arrival of General Thomas Gage in Boston in May ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary January 13,2023 )
The Split History of the D-Day Invasion by Michael Burgan
epub |eng | 2018-02-08 | Author:Michael Burgan [Burgan, Michael]

RESISTANCE NESTS Part of the German defenses along the French coast were widerstandsnests (WNs) or “resistance nests.” Many were just trenches dug in the ground with tunnels that connected them ...
( Category: Children's eBooks January 13,2023 )
A Primary Source History of the Dust Bowl by Rebecca Langston-George
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Rebecca Langston-George [Langston-George, Rebecca]

With nowhere else to go, migrants camped on roadsides in California and other states. Although only about 20 percent of the Dust Bowl migrants came from Oklahoma, all the migrants ...
( Category: 1900s January 13,2023 )
A Primary Source History of Westward Expansion by Steven Otfinoski
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH The California Herald newspaper printed a full page article on December 26, 1848, encouraging people to come to the “gold region.” While California had new settlers too, ...
( Category: History January 13,2023 )

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