Robert N Webb Books
James Watt, inventor of a steam engine
A biography of the eighteenth-century Scottish inventor and engineer whose improved designs of the steam engine made its wide use possible.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau, the father of romanticism
A biography of the French writer and philosopher who influenced the romantic movement in literature and whose political ideas inspired the leaders of the French Revolution.
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The bonus march on Washington, D.C., May-June, 1932
Describes the events surrounding the Bonus March of 1932 when World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand payment of bonuses due them from the government for their wartime services.
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The raid on Harpers Ferry, October 16, 1859
Describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the raid led by John Brown on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
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James Watt: inventor of a steam engine
A biography of the eighteenth-century Scottish inventor and engineer whose improved designs of the steam engine made its wide use possible.
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The colony of Rhode Island
Traces the history of the smallest of the Thirteen Colonies from its founding in 1636 to statehood in 1790.
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