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Last Confederate in the Field
The Life and Career of General Joseph E. Johnston
E-bok, 2025
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During the Civil War, one of the tales that was often told among Confederate soldiers was that Joseph E. Johnston was a crack shot who was a better bird hunter than just about everyone else in the South. However, as the story went, Johnston would never take the shot when asked to, complaining that …
Commanders of the Army of Northern Virginia
The Lives and Careers of Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston
E-bok, 2025
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With the exception of George Washington, perhaps the most famous general in American history is Robert E. Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870), despite the fact he led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia against the Union in the Civil War. As the son of U.S. Revolutionary War hero Henry …
History and Culture of Ancient Egypt
E-bok, 2025
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Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Ancient …
Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
E-bok, 2025
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"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." – Elizabeth Cady Stanton A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives …
Life and Career of General Jubal Early
Fighting for the Lost Cause
E-bok, 2025
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Jubal Early (1816-1894) fought two big wars during his life. About 150 years ago, Early played an important role as a general for the Confederacy, fighting his way up the ranks until he was eventually given an independent command by Robert E. Lee in late 1864. Early served under Stonewall Jackson …
Life and Legacy of Sir Isaac Newton
E-bok, 2025
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“Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously …
History and Culture of Ancient Sparta
E-bok, 2025
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“The walls of Sparta were its young men, and its borders the points of their spears.” – attributed to King Agesilaos There have been no shortage of great warrior societies in history, including the Romans, Mongols, Macedonians, and Vikings, the list goes on. Yet one humble city in particular, …
Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
E-bok, 2025
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"Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." – Ralph Waldo Emerson A …
Life and Legacy of Francisco Pizarro
E-bok, 2025
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“Friends and comrades! On that side [south] are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.” …
Conquistadors
The Lives and Legacies of Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro
E-bok, 2025
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During the Age of Exploration, some of the most famous and infamous individuals were Spain’s best known conquistadors. Naturally, as the best known conquistador, Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) is also the most controversial. Like Christopher Columbus before him, Cortés was lionized for his successes for …
Discovering and Conquering the New World
The Lives and Legacies of Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro
E-bok, 2025
80 kr
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The most seminal event of the last millennium might also be its most controversial. As schoolchildren have been taught for over 500 years, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” In October of that year, the Italian Christopher Columbus immortalized himself by landing in the New World and …
Life of Harry Truman
E-bok, 2025
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"The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well all the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.” – Harry Truman A lot of …
Presidents of World War II
The Lives and Legacies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman
E-bok, 2025
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt might be America’s greatest 20th century president, but there’s no question that he was the most unique. A well-connected relative of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR was groomed for greatness until he was struck down by polio. Nevertheless, he persevered, rising through New York …
Greatest Generals of the Ancient World
The Lives and Legacies of Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar
E-bok, 2025
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Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity’s first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon’s …
Life of Thurgood Marshall
E-bok, 2025
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"A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi…has the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It''s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.” – Thurgood Marshall A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives …
Ayn Rand & Atlas Shrugged
The Life and Legacy of the Author and Book
E-bok, 2025
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Ayn Rand (1905-1982) "Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” – Ayn Rand Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to Jewish parents on February 2, 1905 as …
Life and Legacy of Ayn Rand
The Voice of Libertarians
E-bok, 2025
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"Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” – Ayn Rand Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to Jewish parents on February 2, 1905 as Alisa Zinov''yevna …
Illustrated Guide to Understanding Astrophysics and the Universe
E-bok, 2025
48 kr
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“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” - Stephen Hawking From the dawn of time, man has sought to understand the Universe and his place in it. How did the Earth and the Solar System come to be? How was the Universe created? …
Life of Henry David Thoreau
E-bok, 2025
52 kr
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"A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such …
Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau
Preaching and Practicing Transcendentalism
E-bok, 2025
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In the mid-19th century, Romantic literature was still in full bloom across the West, but some American authors began producing literature that, while still Romantic, was unique enough to be considered a different genre. This new genre, Transcendentalism, focused on the spirituality of the self and …
Life and Legacy of Queen Victoria
E-bok, 2025
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“Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and …
Der Spanische Erbfolgekrieg
Die Geschichte des Konflikts zwischen den Bourbonen und Habsburgern, der Europa erschütterte
E-bok, 2025
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Der Spanische Erbfolgekrieg zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts war der letzte große Krieg des legendären Sonnenkönigs Ludwig XIV. und zugleich der berühmteste aller militärischen Konflikte während seiner Regierungszeit. Die Dauer und der Umfang des Konflikts sind die Hauptgründe für die große …
Santa Muerte
The Origins, History, and Secrets of the Mexican Folk Saint
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E-bok, 2025
39 kr
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European and American scholars are fascinated by her. She is exotic; they look at her with the romantic look of the anthropologist and the sociologist; she is Mexican, colorful, and third-worldly (not to mention that she is a fantastic reason to get funding from their universities). Many see in …
La Santa Muerte
Orígenes, Historia y Secretos de un Santo Popular Mexicano
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E-bok, 2025
39 kr
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A los académicos europeos y norteamericanos les fascina, por lo exótico, porque la miran con los románticos ojos del antropólogo y del sociólogo. Les atrae porque es mexicana, colorida, tercermundista. Además, es un fantástico proyecto para obtener financiamiento de sus universidades. Muchos ven en …
A Inquisição Espanhola
A História e Legado da Notória Perseguição dos Hereges pela Igreja Católica
E-bok, 2025
52 kr
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“A perseguição não é uma característica original em nenhuma religião; mas é sempre a característica fortemente marcada de todas as religiões estabelecidas por lei. ”- Thomas Paine, Direitos do Homem Em muitas sociedades modernas, leis foram postas em prática para proteger os cidadãos da …
La Inquisición Portuguesa
La Historia de la Persecución Religiosa del Imperio Portugués en contra de los no cristianos en Portugual y Asia
E-bok, 2025
40 kr
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Para mediados del siglo XV, el Imperio Bizantino se había derrumbado y las diversas Cruzadas que habían tenido lugar en la región habían trastocado el buen funcionamiento de las rutas terrestres del comercio y la Ruta de la Seda. Para agravar las dificultades, en lugar de los bizantinos surgió el …
A Inquisição Portuguesa
A História da Perseguição Religiosa do Império Português aos Não Cristãos em Portugal e na Ásia
E-bok, 2025
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Em meados do século 15 o Império Bizantino entrou em colapso e as várias Cruzadas que aconteceram na região interromperam em grande parte as rotas terrestres da Rota da Seda e do comércio. Para agravar as dificuldades do comércio, estava a ascensão do Império Otomano no lugar dos bizantinos e a …
El Extraño y Salvaje Oeste
Leyendas y relatos estrambóticos en torno a la frontera
E-bok, 2025
54 kr
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El espacio puede ser la frontera final, pero ninguna ha capturado la imaginación americana como el “Salvaje Oeste”, que todavía evoca imágenes de vaqueros polvorientos, forajidos, tiroteos, jugadores y peleas en el bar, más de 100 años después que el Oeste terminó de ser conquistado. Idea fija en …
Tiro, Biblos y Sidón
La historia de los tres más importantes ciudades antiguas fenicias en el Levante
E-bok, 2025
80 kr
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A lo largo del occidente del Mediterráneo se han descubierto gran número de objetos cuya apariencia o materiales son extraños a las culturas locales, ya sea un amuleto egipcio en Grecia, un vaso griego en África, o miles de extraños amuletos en Gibraltar. Los restos son evidencia de que una gran …
Life and Legacy of King Tutankhamun
E-bok, 2025
40 kr
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A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ Legends of the Ancient World series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of antiquity’s most important men and women in the …
