Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 12 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on March 12, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife May 24, 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on May 24, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife September 1 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas About Sept. 1 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife July 6 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on July 6, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife July 8 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on July 8, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife October 17 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy on October 17, 1865 at Texas En route to Ft. McIntosh

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife June 2 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on June 2, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 8 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on March 8, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 30, 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on March 30, 1865

Background Checks for Firearms Sales and Loans: Law, History, and Policy

This article examines past and present systems requiring that a person receive permission before buying or borrowing a firearm. The article covers laws from the eighteenth century to the present. Such laws have traditionally been rare in the United States. The major exceptions are antebellum laws of the slaves states, and of those same states immediately after the Civil War, which forbade gun ownership by people of color, unless the individual had been granted government permission. Today “universal background checks” are based on a system created by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his “Everytown” lobby. Such laws have been enacted in several states, and also proposed as federal legislation. Besides covering the private sale of firearms, they also cover most loans of firearms and the return of loaned firearms. By requiring that almost all loans and returns may only be processed by a gun store, these laws dangerously constrict responsible firearms activities, such as safety training and safe storage. Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California are among the jurisdictions which have enacted less restrictive, more effective legislation which create controls on private firearms sales, without inflicting so much harm on firearms safety.

No change in the Russian Caucasus. The Winter Olympics amid a local war. OSW Study 47/2014

The North Caucasus has been the most unstable region of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Considering the scale of violence, the conflict in the region should be regarded as a local civil war between the Salafi Islamic armed underground and the secular authorities of the North Caucasus republics, supported by the security services. The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has made himself de facto independent from Moscow, holds a particularly strong position in the region and his ambition is to gain control of the neighbouring territories. The Russian leadership, which sees the security of the Winter Olympics in Sochi as its top priority, is facing a strategic choice between trying to integrate the North Caucasus with the rest of the federation, or isolating the region and accepting the existence of an informal "internal abroad” within Russia. The cultural processes taking place in the region, including Islamisation, de-modernisation and de-Russification, have been driving the North Caucasus ever further away from the rest of Russia, strengthening a mutual sense of foreignness.

The people's own book of recipes and information for the million : containing directions for the preservation of health, for the treatment of the sick and the conduct of the sick-room : with a full discussion of the more porminent diseases that afflict the human family, with full directions for their rational treatment : also, 1000 practical and useful recipes, embracing every department of domestic economy and human industry : with copious notes and emendations, explanatory and suggestive /

Recipes for domestic wines, cider, etc., on p. 306-315.

Journal of Alfred Ely, a prisoner of war in Richmond /

Appendix, p. [281]-359, contains a list of Union prisoners in Southern prison camps.

A history of taxation and taxes in England from the earliest times to the present day,

Includes bibliographical references.

The tragedy of the Crater /

"The spirit of my cousin is ... telling his version of the exploit, for it was from the notes, documents, letters and current newspaper accounts left by General Pleasants on his death that the tale has been pieced together by the author."--Foreword.