Bradley. Iwo Jima is a two-mile-by-five-mile volcanic island lying halfway between Saipan and Japan that held tremendous military significance for the United States during World War II. We needed the island because it housed a radar ...
Menneville, Ange Duquesne de, 63 mercantilism, 5 Mifflin, Thomas, 127, 142 Militia Act, 154 minutemen, 98—99 Miriam's ... Battle of, 116 New York Assembly, 78 Occaneechee Indians, 40 O'Hara, Charles, 134 Ohio Indians, 67 Oldham, John, ...
And while they held promises for the future, they held warnings as well. The book examines the background, the origin, and the legacy of the events and the lives of the leading figures and the times that engulfed them.
Yet Coffman's volume offers the strongest overall combination of focus, clarity, research, conciseness, and wit. I would assign this work to virtually any seminary, university, or Christian formation class. A truly brilliant contribution.
In this book, cultural historian Harlan Lebo looks back at the first moon landing, the Manson family murders, Woodstock, and the birth of the Internet to tell the story of how each event shaped the nation and how we perceive ourselves.
A history of African Americans from colonial America to the present.
The third edition of Nation Dates presents a timeline of 650 significant events that have shaped New Zealand as a nation.
You won't find footnotes and opinion, but you will find a good starting off place to dive more deeply into each subject and as a reminder of how the events of United States history took shape, about how the population of the nation grew, ...
In this book, cultural historian Harlan Lebo looks back at the first moon landing, the Manson family murders, Woodstock, and the birth of the Internet to tell the story of how each event shaped the nation and how we perceive ourselves.
I've never seen so many bomb craters in my whole life. I was appalled. ... You could see it was a fairly large town. But they had bombed that thing right into the ... I'd call the AB Triple-C — that's the airborne 336 MINE EYES HAVE SEEN.
Collection of 200 important historical events that impacted American history from Leif Ericson exploring Vinland to the Cold War ends.