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Chronicles of America series v. 08The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware In 1661, the year after Charles II was restored to the throne of England, William Penn was a seventeen-year-old student at Christ Church, Oxford. His father, a distinguished admiral in high favor at...
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The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern NeighborsThe Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors At the time of the American Revolution most of the New World still belonged to Spain and Portugal, whose captains and conquerors had been the first to come to its shores....
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The Cleveland Era: A Chronicle of the New Order in PoliticsThe Cleveland Era: A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics Politicians at Washington very generally failed to realize that the advent of President Hayes marked the dismissal of the issues of war and reconstruction. They regarded as an episode what turned out to...
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The Boss and the Machine: A Chronicle of the Politicians and Party OrganizationThe Boss and the Machine: A Chronicle of the Politicians and Party Organization The party system is an essential instrument of Democracy. Wherever government rests upon the popular will, there the party is the organ of expression and the agency of the ultimate power....
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The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-EarnersThe Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners Volume 40 of the Chronicles of America Series Allen Johnson, Editor Assistant Editors Gerhard R. Lomer Charles W. Jefferys Copyright, 1919 by Yale University Press Printed in the United States of America Three momentous...
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The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of IndustryThe Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry A comprehensive survey of the United States, at the end of the Civil War, would reveal a state of society which bears little resemblance to that of today. Almost all those commonplace...
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The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering StormThe Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm The Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln marks the beginning of the end of a long chapter in human history. Among the earliest forms of private property was the ownership of slaves. Slavery as an institution...
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The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the StatesThe Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into...
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The Day of the Confederacy: A Chronicle of the Embattled SouthThe Day of the Confederacy: A Chronicle of the Embattled South Volume 30 of the Chronicles of America Series Allen Johnson, Editor Assistant Editors Gerhard R. Lomer Charles W. Jefferys Abraham Lincoln Edition New Haven: Yale University Press Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co. London:...
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The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old WestThe Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West The frontier! There is no word in the English language more stirring, more intimate, or more beloved. It has in it all the elan of the old French phrase, _En avant!_ It carries...
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Chronicles of America series v. 13The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union Title: The Fathers of the Constitution Volume 13 in The Chronicles Of America Series Author: Max Farrand Release Date: January 28, 2009 [EBook #3032] Last Updated: November 20, 2105 Language: English...
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Wild Animals I Have KnownWild Animals I Have Known THESE STORIES are true. Although I have left the strict line of historical truth in many places, the animals in this book were all real characters. They lived the lives I have depicted, and showed the stamp of heroism...
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The Tavern KnightThe Tavern Knight THE TAVERN KNIGHT CHAPTER I. ON THE MARCH CHAPTER II. ARCADES AMBO CHAPTER III. THE LETTER CHAPTER IV. AT THE SIGN OF THE MITRE CHAPTER V. AFTER WORCESTER FIELD CHAPTER VI. COMPANIONS IN MISFORTUNE CHAPTER VII. THE TAVERN KNIGHT'S STORY CHAPTER...
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Real Soldiers of FortuneReal Soldiers of Fortune ANY sunny afternoon, on Fifth Avenue, or at night in the table dhote restaurants of University Place, you may meet the soldier of fortune who of all his brothers in arms now living is the most remarkable. You may have...
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Chronicles of America series v. 19The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond Volume 19 of the Chronicles of America Series Allen Johnson, Editor Assistant Editors Gerhard R. Lomer Charles W. Jefferys The fall of Montreal, on September 8, 1760, while the plains about the city...
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Chronicles of America series v. 15Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty JEFFERSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES CHAPTER I. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'S COURT CHAPTER II. PUTTING THE SHIP ON HER REPUBLICAN TACK CHAPTER III. THE CORSAIRS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CHAPTER IV. THE SHADOW OF THE FIRST CONSUL CHAPTER...
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Samuel Butler: A SketchSamuel Butler: A SketchSamuel Butler was born on the 4th December, 1835, at the Rectory, Langar, near Bingham, in Nottinghamshire. His father was the Rev. Thomas Butler, then Rector of Langar, afterwards one of the canons of Lincoln Cathedral, and his mother was Fanny...
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Never Again! A Protest and a Warning Addressed to the Peoples of EuropeNever Again! A Protest and a Warning Addressed to the Peoples of EuropeThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. CompleteMark Twain: A Biography. Complete Clemens took a room at The Playersa cheap room, he wrote, at $1.50 per day. It was now the end of September, the beginning of a long half-year, during which Mark Twain's fortunes were at a lower ebb than...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910Clemens made a brief trip to Bermuda during the winter, taking Twichell along; their first return to the island since the trip when they had promised to come back so soon-nearly thirty years before. They had...
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