Margaret: 4917 books
The Colors of Courage
Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
In the summer of 1863, as Union and Confederate armies converged on southern Pennsylvania, the town of Gettysburg found itself thrust onto the center stage of war. The three days of fighting that ensued decisively turned the tide of the Civil War. In The Colors of Courage, Margaret Creighton narrates...
Romance of History, Mexico(1909)
(Colour Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Romance of History, Mexico(1909) is the timeless historical story written by Margaret Duncan Coxhead and illustrated in colour by J. H. Robinson, published by New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers ( 1909 ).
…..All ages have their pervading spirit. In the fifteenth...
Reveille in Washington
1860-1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, colored by patriotism and treason, and deeply divided along the political lines that will soon embroil the nation in bloody conflict. Chaotic and corrupt, the young city is populated by bellicose congressmen, Confederate
conspirators,...
R. D. O’Leary (1866–1936)
Notes from Mount Oread, 1914–1915
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Over the span of forty years, Professor Raphael Dorman OLeary labored tirelessly to make his students understand the importance of originality and of apt expression in English composition. He especially loved words well chosen and dared his students to put beauty and smoothness and sinew into their...
Gudao, Lone Islet
The War Years in Shanghai—A Childhood Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
In 1937, the Japanese invaded the Chinese city of Shanghai. The neutral Shanghai International Settlement, where Margaret and her family lived, became a gudao (lone islet) of safety from the savagery of the Japanese soldiers. But soon the foreign citizens were interned. This heart-wrenching story, told in the voice of a young girl, brings new insights to a violent period.
by Margaret Bourke-White
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
An excellent, richly illustrated, account of the bloodiest phase of the Italian campaign.
Here is a report—in pictures and in words—of exactly what happened to our men during the bitterest phases of the Italian campaign. This report is not based upon a hurried visit behind the lines; Margaret...
The Last Puritans
Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded....
How Hard Could It Be?
A Caregiver’S Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Its an issue facing many grown children: providing care for their aging parents. Its not always as easy as it seems. In How Hard Could It Be?, author Margaret Sheehan provides a firsthand look at the world of caregiving as she discusses the details of serving in that role for her parents.
Insightful,...
Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary
She Led by Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution....
by Margaret Randall
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains...
Leaving Orbit
Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it
In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of...
Absaraka, Home of the Crows
A Military Wife?s Journal Retelling Life on the Plains and Red Cloud?s War
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The classic journal and firsthand account of one of the most disastrous military battles of the American frontier.
On July 17, 1866, two soldiers and six wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks. The attacks continued through the...
Louise Humann (1766–1836)
Re-Christianizing Post-Revolutionary France
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Upon Mademoiselle Louise Humanns death in 1836, a distraught Abb Thodore Ratisbonne said of his spiritual mother, Here lays this sweet, strong Christian who, from the depths of her quiet, secluded home, has exercised more influence on the world of her time than will ever be known! Yet in an era when...
by Margaret Forster
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
When eight-year-old Julia was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris's wedding, she was thrilled. Nothing, not even her mother's resentment of the expensive, inconvenient trip, could dull her excitement. But, when the day finally arrived and she took her cousin's baby on a secret stroll...