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Warren Commission Report is the result of the investigation regarding the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. The U.S. Congress passed Senate Joint Resolution 137 authorizing t……続きを見る

Undesirable Practices examines both the intended and the unintended consequences of “imperial feminism” and British colonial interventions in “undesirable” cultural practices in northern Ghana. Jess……続きを見る

The information contained in this book contradicts nearly everything you’ve been led to believe about democracy and “representative government.” Based on the groundbreaking research of respected his……続きを見る

The explosive search for the truth about who killed JFK, "the final word until 2039-when government files on the case can be unlocked." (Kirkus) Will we ever know the truth about the Kennedy assassi……続きを見る

Mutter Teresa, 1910–1997, gehört zu den prominentesten Frauen des 20.Jahrhunderts. Für ihre wohltätige Arbeit in den Slums von Kalkutta und von dort aus weltweit erhielt sie den Friedensnobelpreis. ……続きを見る

Deported American anarchist Emma Goldman travels to Russia for the first time in 30 years. She provides a revealing picture on the rampant oportunism throughout the Soviet government and its steady ……続きを見る

Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to c……続きを見る

Summary of Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West | Includes Analysis PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Instaread: • Summary of entire……続きを見る

How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson | Includes Analysis Preview of this summary: Chapter 1 Glass formed in the Libyan desert about twenty-six million years ago when grains of silica became superheat……続きを見る

Summary of No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Includes Analysis Preview No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin is a unique blend of history and biography, exploring the leadership and pers……続きを見る

Am 19. September 1897 kam es zu einer Zeitenwende in der Transatlantik-Passagierschifffahrt. Der Norddeutsche Lloyd schickte seinen brandneuen Schnelldampfer „Kaiser Wilhelm der Große“ auf die Jungf……続きを見る

On Saturday, September 5, 1964, the family of Albert W. "Red" Heffner Jr., a successful insurance agent, left their house at 202 Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi, where they had lived for ten ye……続きを見る

The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother, with few needs or rights of her own. The modern woman, by contrast,……続きを見る

In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men c……続きを見る

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 19……続きを見る

African Americans have a long history of active involvement and interest in international affairs, but their efforts have been largely ignored by scholars of American foreign policy. Gayle Plummer b……続きを見る

History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of thei……続きを見る

This seminar study examines the Eisenhower presidency. The author argues that the presidency marked an important stage in the evolution of modern America, but left a decidedly mixed legacy for futur……続きを見る

Revolutionary Justice narrates the power struggle between the Free Officers and their adversaries in the aftermath of Egypt's July Revolution of 1952 by studying trials held at the Revolution's Cour……続きを見る

On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes.……続きを見る

Freud said dreams were the "royal road" to the unconscious, and then along came a superhighway: psychedelics. Personally, we can access the psychedelic experience, but Frank Ogden shepherded over a ……続きを見る

Teacher, social scientist, historian, poet, prophetーhis was the voice that demanded equality, respect and dignity for the black man in a society that denied his humanity. The memory of Dr. W. E. B……続きを見る

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 examines one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior of the Polish Underground - the resistanc……続きを見る

15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes ! 15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comp……続きを見る

15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes ! 15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comp……続きを見る

Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ……続きを見る

Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics has dominated discussions about art and aesthetic modernism since World War II, and continues to inform contemporary theorizing. Situating Adorno's aesthetic theory in……続きを見る

This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the ……続きを見る

It is clear that the main objective of this book was to explain what it was like for the astronaut’s wives and their families. Being the wife of an astronaut was very different in the 1950s than it ……続きを見る

Ein Kind wird weggelockt, ein Millionenerbe tagelang im Keller eingesperrt, ein Flugzeug zur Kursänderung gezwungen … Entführungen gehören zu den spektakulärsten Verbrechen überhaupt. So unterschied……続きを見る