Recipes Across America by Taste of Home | 23.45 MB
English | 512 Pages

Title: Taste of Home Recipes Across America: 735 of the Best Recipes from Across the Nation
Author: Taste of Home
Year: 2013

Free Download Shays' Rebellion: The History and Legacy of America's First Domestic Uprising by Charles River Editors
English | December 29, 2016 | ISBN: 154130862X | 51 pages | EPUB | 1.29 Mb
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the rebellion *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." - George Washington, referencing Shays' Rebellion in a letter to Light-Horse Harry Lee Even as the young United States successfully secured its independence, the new nation was beset by problems. The drafters of the Articles of Confederation had deliberately avoided giving the national legislature the power to tax, because Parliament had so abused that authority against the colonies, but this proved to be a severe limitation on the national government. Besides hampering the Continental Army, the inability of the national government to raise revenue made foreign policy difficult. Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress was also completely unable to pay any of the debts it incurred to foreign powers during the Revolutionary War. Though allied powers had lent to the American government on favorable terms and no repayment was expected until the end of hostilities, the hope of ever paying national debts without a national government that could tax was slim. In particular, the prospect of the new nation defaulting on its loans from France led to the end of the Articles of Confederation. To top it all off, the Articles of Confederation also had no judiciary or executive branch. Therefore, laws passed by the Congress could not be enforced by the national government: the enforcement of laws was left to the mercy of the states. Likewise, there was no national judiciary to decide disputes over national law. Fueled at least in part by the weakness of the federal government to respond to military threats, the young country quickly faced a problem in the form of a rebellion led in New England by former Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays. On December 27, 1786, Samuel Lyman of Massachusetts wrote to his friend and confidant, Samuel Breck, "[N]ot only this Commonwealth but the union at large are in the most confused and confounded condition; we do not yet feel that sameness or unity of interest which is the only cement of any nation, and which is absolutely necessary to be felt in order to make us respectable & important; but this is not surprizing, for our national existence is but of yesterday, and this unity of interest is the result of time, it is the effect of habit, sentiment, & opinion, it is the unison of each of these..." Whether he meant to or not, Lyman captured in this one statement the very essence of the causes of the series of riots known collectively as Shays' Rebellion; for they began during the earliest years of American independence and were led by men who were, by their very nature, rebels. Unlike most countries in the world, 18th century America was made up of people who believed in change, and who were willing to leave their homelands and strike out for the unknown to find it. The men who had just years earlier participated in the American Revolution were not afraid to break down a government they did not like; indeed, many of them reveled in it. When Massachusetts enacted laws that Shays and others didn't like, the rebels had no qualms about taking up arms, and while the rebellion was eventually put down, changes were made to prevent similar problems in the future. Out of this came peace, order and freedom.

Free Download Martin Woodside, "Frontiers of Boyhood: Imagining America, Past and Future (Volume 7) "
English | ISBN: 080616476X | 2020 | 248 pages | PDF | 17 MB
When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country," the frontier was already synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American masculinity. But Greeley's exhortation also captured popular sentiment surrounding changing ideas of American boyhood; for many educators, politicians, and parents, raising boys right seemed a pivotal step in securing the growing nation's future. This book revisits these narratives of American boyhood and frontier mythology to show how they worked against and through one another-and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character, identity, and progress.

Free Download Kenneth R. Ross, "Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean "
English | ISBN: 1474492142 | 2022 | 592 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This volume is the sixth in a series of reference works that takes the analysis of worldwide Christianity to a deeper level of detail. It focuses on Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean, covering every country and offering both reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners. It maps patterns of growth and decline, assesses major traditions and movements, analyses key themes, and examines current trends. As a comprehensive account of the presence of Christianity in every country in Latin America, this volume will become a standard work of reference in its field.

Free Download The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival by Ron DeSantis
English | February 28, 2023 | ISBN: 0063276003 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 1.6 MB
No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it.

Free Download Thomas Nelson, "Seeing God in America: Devotions from 100 Favorite Places"
English | ISBN: 0718036603 | 2015 | 224 pages | EPUB | 31 MB
Where is your favorite place in America?

Free Download Colonial America: A Captivating Guide to the Colonial History of the United States and How Immigrants of Countries Such as England, Spain, France, and ... (European Exploration and Settlement) by Captivating History
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09QMH35Z1 | 108 pages | EPUB | 2.45 Mb
Did you know that the first English settlement in the New World was a disaster?

Free Download Stephen R. Swinburne, "Black Bear: North America's Bear"
English | ISBN: 159078023X | 2003 | 32 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
Three species of bear inhabit North America: the grizzly, the polar bear, and the black bear. But the American black bear is truly North America's bear, found only in North America. Black bears range from Canada to Mexico, from New England to California. There may be as many as 750,000 black bears roaming the forests and mountains of the continent. Stephen R. Swinburne takes young readers to where black bears live. He joins biologists in search of bears in the Pennsylvania woods, where a mother bear is examined and her cubs tagged. He visits a "schoolteacher" for orphaned cubs, who teaches them how to survive in the wild. Along the way, he offers his personal observations together with fascinating facts about black bears and their world. With stunning full-color and archival photographs, this lively book shows how North America's bear behaves and survives.

Free Download Janet Moore Lindman, "A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America"
English | ISBN: 0801487390 | 2001 | 296 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery.

The Courage to Be Free Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival by Ron DeSantis | 1.64 MB
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Title: The Courage to Be Free
Author: Ron DeSantis
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