A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons, Paperback - Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

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A little-known, fascinating story about Thomas Jefferson and his obsessive quest to find America's first complete mastodon skeleton. Thomas Jeffers...

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Reducere. As the First Family sleeps, something spooky goes bump in the night. History knows the White House as the symbol of the American presidency. Could ...

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In the early hours of 7 August 1985, five members of the Bamber family were shot dead. Initially, Sheila Caffell was thought to have killed her twi...

The history of the White House, first completed in 1799, reflects the history of America itself. It was the dream of George Washington to have an e...

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