National Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Engineering 
Memorial Tributes [EPUB ebook] 
Volume 8

In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of “the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male.” For the next 40 years—even …

John started his young life in Essex, then he moved to the East End of London. This is where he met some big villains who would become his friends. They ended up doing him some favours. Eventually, h …

Gwendolyn Patton's parents moved north from Alabama to Detroit in the Great Migration, ensuring that their children would avoid the worst that the post-Reconstruction South had to offer. As a you …

A native of Beaumont, Texas, and a World War II veteran, Jack Brooks represented Texas”s Ninth District for forty-two years in the U.S. Congress. One of the most influential congressmen you”ve neve …

Shelley Stewart was five years old when he and his brothers watched in horror as their father murdered their mother with an ax. Homeless at the age of six, Stewart found what shelter he could, suffer …

"History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XIII" by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch. This …

"History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XII" by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch. This h …

"History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XV" by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch. This hi …