Americas
epub |eng | 2018-12-01 | Author:Debby Irving
William Brown was accused of assaulting Agnes Lobeck, a white woman, in Nebraska. On September 28, 1919, he was brutally and savagely lynched in Omaha. In 1903, a Georgia mob ...
( Category:
Sociology
December 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Sam Tanenhaus [Tanenhaus, Sam]
While the grand jury was deliberating, Chambers exited the waiting room and slipped down a back stairway. A group of reporters ran down a different stairway, hoping to intercept him. ...
( Category:
World
December 1,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Moore
The Shot man had a human tooth hanging at one ear and a girdle of Matting about four inches broad was passed twice round his loins & tied. He had ...
( Category:
World
December 1,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Davis
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS When Booker T. arrived at the White House on Sunday, September 29, for his scheduled 9:00 PM meeting with TR, the building was quiet. The Roosevelt children ...
( Category:
Historical
November 30,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Sheumaker
SIGNIFICANCE Wheelchairs were invented because there was a need for them. Sometimes individuals suffered illnesses that left limbs paralyzed (see Health and Medicine—Antibiotics Penicillin Sample), such as polio; others suffered ...
( Category:
Architecture
November 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-18 | Author:Ben Montgomery [Montgomery, Ben]
14. An Ounce of Attention On June 25 Plennie and his aunt Marie settled into their cushioned seats in the little movie house and waited for the film to start. ...
( Category:
Hiking & Camping
November 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-27 | Author:Alan Taylor
EXPECTATIONS William Cooper wanted his children to master the elitist political principles that he had adopted during the 1790s. Determined to preserve his sons from democratic notions, in 1802 Judge ...
( Category:
Historical
November 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-27 | Author:Joan Druett
ELEVEN GEORGE BLACK “AT DAYLIGHT THE next morning all hands were called and commenced fitting the rigging it being calm,” Clough recorded. Then, as soon as breakfast was over, the ...
( Category:
Transportation
November 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-12 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant
First Meeting with Secretary Stanton—General Rosecrans—Commanding Military Division of Mississippi—Andrew Johnson’s Address—Arrival at Chattanooga The reply (to my telegram of October 16, 1863, from Cairo, announcing my arrival at that ...
( Category:
Leaders & Notable People
November 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Dick Portillo
10. The Roaring ’80s and ’90s A lot happened during the roaring 1980s and 1990s in Chicago, from the Bears winning Super Bowl XX in 1986 to the Chicago Bulls ...
( Category:
Americas
November 28,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fidel Castro
Thomas Paine said that one just man deserves more respect than a crowned rogue. The people’s right to rebel has been opposed only by reactionaries like that clergyman of Virginia, ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
November 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-27 | Author:Judith B. Tankard
Frank Lloyd Wright and Ellen Shipman, Graycliff Estate, Derby, New York Wright was not known for collaborating with landscape architects, but at the request of his clients, Darwin and Isabelle ...
( Category:
Gardening & Landscape Design
November 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-26 | Author:Rosemarie Ostler
This 1840 anti–Van Buren cartoon incorporates OK into a signpost pointing the president back to his hometown of Kinderhook, as former president Andrew Jackson pulls him toward the White House. ...
( Category:
Words, Language & Grammar
November 27,2018 )
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