Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Burke

5 Morisani, ‘Cristoforo Landino’. 6 Gelli, ‘Vite d’artisti’, p. 37. 7 Savonarola, Prediche e scritti, pp. 2, 47. 8 Blunt, Artistic Theory, ch. 8. 9 Clements, Michelangelo; Summers, Michelangelo, ch. ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:Richard Almond

FIVE Crossing the Barriers The three previous chapters have been concerned largely with comparisons, stressing the differences between upper- and lower-class hunting, emphasising in particular quarry type, methods and techniques. ...
( Category: Anthropology September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Virginia Jenkins [Jenkins, Virginia]

The reader submitting this “cure” noted that his “great-grandfather, Dr. J. B. Frymire, a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1867, started using the banana-peel treatment ...
( Category: Cooking by Ingredient September 27,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Dyhouse, Carol

6.1 A young Marianne Faithfull looking innocent, 1967 (© Stanley Sherman/Getty Images). Speculation about the details of Faithfull’s love life was wild. A story about (unspecified) sexual practices involving a ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Rich DiSilvio [DiSilvio, Rich]

While the majority of this tale is factual, the part dealing with Sybil's ride has been told over many years with limited primary sources and in various versions. It is ...
( Category: Historical September 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-13 | Author:Rich DiSilvio [DiSilvio, Rich]

SIGMUND FREUD: Psychological Sciences Sigmund Freud’s words likewise affected change on a global scale. Many forerunners had attempted to analyze the human character, such as Plutarch during the reigns of ...
( Category: Historical September 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Laura Spinney

PART SIX: Science Redeemed René Dujarric de la Rivière in an army laboratory, Calais, 1915 13 Aenigmoplasma influenzae In the dog days of August 1914, an ageing Ilya Mechnikov–Russian exile, ...
( Category: World September 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:David Kynaston

After Labour had narrowly won the election – a narrowness prompting the Bank’s George Preston to reassure the Fed on the afternoon of 16 October that ‘no sweeping changes might ...
( Category: Economics September 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Harlan Lane [Lane, Harlan]

What did Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe have to say with their views thus repudiated and their falsehoods revealed? Mann said not a word further concerning the deaf to ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-26 | Author:Sinha, Manisha [Sinha, Manisha]

13 FUGITIVE SLAVE ABOLITIONISM On February 24, 1844, the Liberator printed an admiring report on Frederick Douglass’s “masterly and impressive” speech in Concord, New Hampshire. The fugitive slave was the ...
( Category: World September 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Emily Lynn Osborn [Osborn, Emily Lynn]

HOUSEHOLDS, WOMANHOOD, AND STATECRAFT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE At some level, French ideas about gender roles and politics were not incongruent with how many African societies operated. In most African precolonial ...
( Category: World September 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-29 | Author:Friedrich Engels & Tristram Hunt [Engels, Friedrich & Hunt, Tristram]

All the members of an Iroquois gens were personally free, and they were bound to defend each other’s freedom; they were equal in privileges and in personal rights, the sachem ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Kushner

25 WAKE ME UP if anybody comes through,” Witt told Tillman, according to court documents. It was around twelve thirty in the afternoon on Sunday, October 28, 1973, and Tillman ...
( Category: Death & Grief September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Joyce Appleby & Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob [Appleby, Joyce]

The Philosophical Armor of Heroic Science Historians and scientists of the generation of Conant and Butterfield institutionalized the history of science in American universities because they believed that its history, ...
( Category: World September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Watson [Watson, Alexander]

2. A PEOPLE’S WAR. Old Civil Railway Watchmen and young war volunteers in the German city of Göttingen, 5 September 1914. The old men, who had come forward to protect ...
( Category: Europe September 25,2017 )