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John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) was the thirtieth president of the United States. He has become symbolic of the smug and self-satisfied conservatism that helped bring on the Great Depression. Calvin Coolidge (he dropped the John after col...
About 97 pages (29,050 words) in 6 products

Who Is an American?...
About 84 pages (25,303 words) in 1 product

The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contem...
About 705 pages (211,557 words) in 33 products

Charles Francis Adams, Jr., was born in Boston on 27 May 1835, the third child and second son of Charles Francis and Abigail Brooks Adams. He was the great-grandson of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the grandson...
About 67 pages (20,095 words) in 3 products

The twenty-first president of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur (1830-1886) was reputed to be one of the leading spoilsmen in American politics when he took office, but he proved to be a dignified and an able administrator. Political ...
About 46 pages (13,746 words) in 5 products

In general, the lives of women and the roles they played in society were very similar throughout the colonies. However, certain conditions in the Chesapeake region changed the roles of the women who lived there and created a life that was ...
About 785 pages (235,507 words) in 36 products

Education was at the heart of European efforts to colonize America. Whether Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, or English, colonists from the Old World found success only as they adapted familiar ways of life and their own expectations t...
About 87 pages (26,156 words) in 1 product

The Europeans and Africans who came to the New World brought with them ideas and attitudes about religion, society, gender, race, and power. Europeans self-consciously tried to model their new societies after what they had known before, a...
About 126 pages (37,784 words) in 2 products

The Industrial Revolution was a time of change for Europe; not only economically, but socially also. The world saw the advent of new technologies like the steam engine, railroads, factories, and textile mills. These new technologies create...
About 329 pages (98,540 words) in 14 products

In March 1917, as the people of Russia demonstrated against the hunger and privations brought by World War I, the tsar of the Russian Empire gave up his throne. A provisional government took power in St. Petersburg, the imperial capital. Se...
About 107 pages (32,221 words) in 2 products

The story of the U.S. Constitution does not begin with the signing of the document on September 17, l787, nor with the ninth state ratifying it and thereby establishing it as the supreme law of the land. Nor does the story begin with the Ph...
About 225 pages (67,456 words) in 2 products

The Crusades were a series of eight wars that European Christians fought for a religious cause, in attempt to seize the Holy Land and drive out the Muslim Turks. Although their effect greatly differed from their original intent, they still...
About 577 pages (173,039 words) in 26 products
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