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| december 28 in history: One Day Gene Weingarten, 2020-09-08 “One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human. |
| december 28 in history: The Encyclopaedia Britannica , 1962 |
| december 28 in history: Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate Phillip Thomas Tucker, 2017-08-22 The story of the most famous female pirate in history provides a remarkable personal odyssey from a time when women were almost powerless and at the lowest level of the social order on both sides of the Atlantic. This new biographical work fills considerable gaps in Anne Bonny’s life beyond her mythology to rescue an actual person for posterity. After turning her back on everything she knew growing up in South Carolina to find a sense of personal freedom, Anne Bonny sailed the Caribbean’s pristine waters during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century. Few accurate records exist about these law-breakers, whose lifestyles called for hanging. Fortunately, Anne Bonny was a notable exception to the rule, as she was caught off the Jamaican coast and tried by a court of law, whose records have fortunately survived. So, who was the real Anne Bonny? A heartless prostitute, a bloodthirsty psychopathic, or a compassionate woman of faith and courage? Such a fundamental question has not been adequately answered by historians for 300 years. It is now time to take a fresh look at the life of Anne Bonny to present a corrective view into not only her story but also the seldom explored, but incredibly rich, field of women’s history. The Anne Bonny mythology is today popularly told in Starz channel’s Black Sails and the video game Assassin's Creed. |
| december 28 in history: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, Victoria Clements, 2003 The essays in this volume examine the full breadth and complexity of the extensive oeuvre of American literary pioneer Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867). |
| december 28 in history: Writings on American History , 1922 |
| december 28 in history: Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1919 Vol. for 1922-1923 and 1923-1924 includes Directory of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. |
| december 28 in history: Agricultural History , 1928 |
| december 28 in history: Annual Report of the American Historical Association American Historical Association, 1907 |
| december 28 in history: Competitive Arms Control John D. Maurer, 2022-01-01 The essential history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) during the Nixon Administration How did Richard Nixon, a president so determined to compete for strategic nuclear advantage over the Soviet Union, become one of the most successful arms controllers of the Cold War? Drawing on newly opened Cold War archives, John D. Maurer argues that a central purpose of arms control talks for American leaders was to channel nuclear competition toward areas of American advantage and not just international cooperation. While previous accounts of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) have emphasized American cooperative motives, Maurer highlights how Nixon, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird shaped negotiations, balancing their own competitive interests with proponents of cooperation while still providing a coherent rationale to Congress. Within the arms control agreements, American leaders intended to continue deploying new weapons, and the arms control restrictions, as negotiated, allowed the United States to sustain its global power, contain communism, and ultimately prevail in the Cold War. |
| december 28 in history: The Historical Magazine , 1873 |
| december 28 in history: Iowa Journal of History , 1912 |
| december 28 in history: A Legislative History of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Its Amendments United States, 1979 |
| december 28 in history: Papers of the American Historical Association , 1890 |
| december 28 in history: The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine Lawrence Counselman Wroth, 1912 |
| december 28 in history: NextGen Genealogy David R. Dowell Ph.D., 2014-11-25 DNA testing can serve as a powerful tool that unlocks the hidden information within our bodies for family history research. This book explains how genetic genealogy works and answers the questions of genealogists and individuals seeking information on their family trees. Now that DNA testing for genealogical purposes has existed for nearly a decade and a half—and been refined and improved during that time—it has established its value among family history researchers. It is now becoming accepted as another tool in the kit of well-rounded genealogists. This book covers this fast-growing application of genetics, empowering genealogists to apply this information to further their research. It will also enable general readers to understand how genetic information can be applied to verify or refute documentary research—and to break down frustrating walls that block the discovery of ancestors. The book describes the three major categories of DNA testing for family history research: Y-chromosome tests for investigating paternal (surname) lines, mitochondrial tests for investigating maternal (umbilical) lines, and autosomal tests for exploring close relationships. Expert genealogist David Dowell provides guidance on deciding which test to take and identifying which members of your family should be tested to answer your most important genealogical questions. Readers will also learn how to interpret the results of tests and methods for further analysis to get additional value from them. |
| december 28 in history: Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut William Richard Cutter, 1911 |
| december 28 in history: Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting American Economic Association, 1905 |
| december 28 in history: Index to the Woodrow Wilson Papers: G-O Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, 1973 |
| december 28 in history: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2 R. Reginald, Mary A. Burgess, Douglas Menville, 2010-09-01 Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume Two of Two, contains Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. |
| december 28 in history: Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania John Woolf Jordan, 1914 |
| december 28 in history: History of Boone County, Missouri , 1882 |
| december 28 in history: The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, 2018-08-20 Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States. |
| december 28 in history: Bounds of Blackness Christopher Tounsel, 2024-06-15 Bounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's intellectual and cultural engagement with the modern state of Sudan. Ancient Sudan occupies a central place in the Black American imaginary as an exemplar of Black glory, pride, and civilization, while contemporary Sudan, often categorized as part of Arab Africa rather than Black Africa, is often sidelined and overlooked. In this pathbreaking book, Christopher Tounsel unpacks the vacillating approaches of Black Americans to the Sudanese state and its multiethnic populace through periods defined by colonialism, postcolonial civil wars, genocide in Darfur, and South Sudanese independence. By exploring the work of African American intellectuals, diplomats, organizations, and media outlets, Tounsel shows how this transnational relationship reflects the robust yet capricious terms of racial consciousness in the African Diaspora. |
| december 28 in history: The Michigan Alumnus , 1900 In v.1-8 the final number consists of the Commencement annual. |
| december 28 in history: W. P. A. Technical Series United States. Work Projects Administration, 1940 |
| december 28 in history: Legislative History of the National Labor Relations Act, 1935 United States. National Labor Relations Board, 1949 |
| december 28 in history: History of Dixon and Lee County, Chronological Record ... , 1880 |
| december 28 in history: A Brief History of the United States; Barnes's Historical Series Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele, 2023-09-16 Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision. |
| december 28 in history: Caught! Georgia Bragg, 2019 Outlaw, assassin, art thief, and spy, these fourteen troublemakers and crooks--including Blackbeard the pirate, Typhoid Mary, and gangster Al Capone--have given the good guys a run for their money throughout the ages. Some were crooked, some were deadly, and some were merely out of line--but they all got Caught! as detailed in this fascinating and funny study of crime, culture, and forensic science--Provided by publisher. |
| december 28 in history: History of Randolph County, Indiana E. Tucker, 1882 |
| december 28 in history: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas Goodspeed Publishing Company Staff, 1889 |
| december 28 in history: Bulletin of the New York Public Library New York Public Library, 1921 Includes its Report, 1896-19 . |
| december 28 in history: White House Studies Compendium Glenn P. Hastedt, 2007 The American Presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendency of American power in the 20th century.'White House Studies Compendium' brings together piercing analyses of the American presidency -- dealing with both currect issues and historical events.The compendia are the bound issues of 'White House Studies' with the addition of a comprehensive subject index. |
| december 28 in history: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas , 1891 |
| december 28 in history: History of Ray County, Mo , 1881 |
| december 28 in history: Journal of the Department of History, Presbyterian Historical Society Presbyterian Historical Society, 1914 |
| december 28 in history: The American Historical Review John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler, 1903 American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research. |
| december 28 in history: Iowa Journal of History and Politics Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh, 1915 |
| december 28 in history: A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Erik Skare, 2021-01-28 Using a wealth of primary sources, this book traces the history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions from its origins in the early 1980s to today, exploring its continued presence despite its more powerful sister movement Hamas. |
| december 28 in history: The Mississippi Valley Historical Review , 1917 Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, |
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