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December 10, 2024

By His Own Hand The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

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Free Download James J. Holmberg, "By His Own Hand?: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis"
English | 2006 | pages: 201 | ISBN: 0806137800 | PDF | 2,4 mb
The murder-versus-suicide debate over the 1809 death of Meriwether Lewis, then governor of Upper Louisiana, is examined in a volume that analyzes the evidence and considers the strengths and weaknesses of each argument within the full historical context.

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December 10, 2024

A World of Their Own A History of South African Women’s Education

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Free Download Meghan Healy-Clancy, "A World of Their Own: A History of South African Women’s Education "
English | ISBN: 081393608X | 2014 | 328 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimensions of schooling, historians have neglected their distinctive gendered dynamics. A World of Their Own is the first book to explore the meanings of black women’s education in the making of modern South Africa. Its lens is a social history of the first high school for black South African women, Inanda Seminary, from its 1869 founding outside of Durban through the recent past.

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December 9, 2024

Casey Jones (On My Own Folklore)

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Free Download Mark Schroder, "Casey Jones (On My Own Folklore)"
English | 2006 | pages: 50 | ISBN: 1575058901, 0822564769 | PDF | 7,2 mb
Presents the life of the railroad engineer who was famous for always bringing his train in on time and whose brave actions during his last ride on the Cannonball Express saved the lives of all of the passengers and inspired the well-known ballad.

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