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  Edward Curtis: Portrait of...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Backed by Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Curtis set out in 1900 to document the lives of Native Americans. Over the next 30 years, he took more than 40,000 pictures and 10,000 audio recordings. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pulitzer Prize winner Timothy Egan about his new biography about Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.

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  Thomas Jefferson An Autobiography

  Thomas Jefferson

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  “I cannot live without books.”“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”? Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams and as the first United States secretary of state under George Washington. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence. As a Virginia legislator, he drafted a state law for religious freedom. He served as the second Governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. In 1785, Jefferson was appointed the United States Minister to France, and subsequently, the nation's first secretary of state under President George Washington from 1790 to 1793. Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party during the formation of the First Party System. With Madison, he anonymously wrote the provocative Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 and 1799, which sought to strengthen states' rights by nullifying the federal Alien and Sedition Acts.

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  From darkness to light

  Marty Bardine

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  This is a true story about a life without God for 25 years. Living on the dark side. From the beginning all the way to the preasant day. The destruction of satan and my own rebellious flesh in my life for 25 years until God met me in my living room in 1985. Instantly saved, given a new heart. The beginning of my deliverance of my dark past. Supernatural interventions of God through the years, and many lessons learned. This book will help you understand why you go through some of things in life you suffer and enjoy. You have an enemy, satan and his demons against you the day you are born. You have a God who loves you before you were born. You are born seperated from God spiritually. This means you dont have the same heart He has. He will give you a new one. How to reconnect with God His way, How God is a relationship not a religion. Why religion doesnt work. Gods love for sinners. Delivering a transvestite, ministering to the homosexuals an pedofile. Bringing an alchoholic bartender from a motorcycle crash out of a coma. Why mentally acknowledging God doesnt save you. Heavenly visitations. How to hear Gods voice About Marty Bardine Saved in 1985 Called by God not by man. Given a prophetic dream, I saw Jesus hand pick me into ministry. Had an audible visitation from God calling me an ordained minister. Angel appearing in my room to heal me. Super natural visitations. Was an elder in two different ministries. Preaching. Praise team base player. Joined a three week tent crusade for the city on the praise team. Conducted a maximum manhood series. Many supernatural interventions from God to steer my life into what it is today and the satanic resistance that fought me and Jesus got the victory over. Prophetic dreams about Americas need to repent and the future judgment of Babylon. [The Great, "America".

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  Melville in Love - The Secret...

  Michael Shelden

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  Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his "wicked book." Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale.In Melville in Love Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melville's passionate and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melville's own. In his research, Shelden discovered documents suggesting that, in their shared resistance to the "iron rule" of social conformity, Sarah and Melville had forged an illicit and enduring romantic and intellectual bond. Emboldened by the thrill of courting Sarah in secret, the pleasure of falling in love, and the excitement of spending time with literary luminaries, Melville found the courage to take the leap from light works of adventure to the hugely brilliant, utterly subversive Moby-Dick.

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  Nurses of Passchendaele - Caring...

  Christine E. Hallett

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  The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at base hospitals near the French and Belgian coasts, nurses of many nations cared for these traumatized and damaged men.Drawing on letters, diaries and personal accounts from archives all over the world, The Nurses of Passchendaele tells their stories - faithfully recounting their experiences behind the Ypres Salient in one of the most intense and prolonged casualty evacuation processes in the history of modern warfare. Nurses themselves came under shellfire and were vulnerable to aerial bombardment, and some were killed or injured while on active service.Alongside an analysis of the intricacies of their practice, the book traces the personal stories of some of these extraordinary women, revealing the courage, resilience and compassion with which they did their work.

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  Sir Where's 'Toilet?

  John Meadows

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  A further collection of entertaining short stories to complete the author’s trilogy of world-wide adventures. His intriguing tales are spiced with lively encounters and astute observations, full of humor and wit. His fascinating historical facts are particularly enlightening, and will have you saying, "Really? I didn’t know that." Each story will leave you wanting more: Teachers' ghostly prank with a bizarre twist. Sampling local whiskey at a village distillery on the fabled Mekong river in Laos. Two cultures collide when Russian rugby league players invade Wigan, and to complete his experiences, he was proclaimed Emperor of China.

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