Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Przybyszewski, Linda [Przybyszewski, Linda]

5 Revolt The Fall of the Dress Doctors MAGAZINE WRITER HAZEL RAWSON CADES explained to her Girl Scout readers in 1927 that girls needed to choose the right handkerchief when ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-21 | Author:Northrop, Douglas

Connecting CHAPTER TWENTY Networks, Interactions, and Connective History FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO WITH BENJAMIN SACKS Global history, strictly understood, is the history of what happens worldwide – across the planet as a ...
( Category: Essays December 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Ray Suarez

• • • IN 1957, PLAYWRIGHT Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein dusted off the old love-across-ethnic-barriers idea for a new Broadway musical. This one would not have a “we’re ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies December 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A

THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-24 | Author:Gaddis, John Lewis

II. First, the distinction between the immediate, the intermediate, and the distant. Although historical narratives normally move forward, historians in preparing them move backward.11 They tend to start with some ...
( Category: United States December 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Gloria Steinem [Steinem, Gloria]

I. As a freelancer, I finally did get one assignment in our nation’s capital—to write about the style of the Kennedy White House. It paid less than I would spend ...
( Category: Women December 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-01 | Author:Christopher Oldstone-Moore [Oldstone-Moore, Christopher]

9.2 Emperor Napoleon III, by Hippolyte Flandrin, 1852. Universal Images Group/Art Resource, NY. In Napoleon, we can observe the military and romantic sources for the beard movement, but there were ...
( Category: Men December 21,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Tucker, William [Tucker, William]

After Albert’s death, Queen Victoria became exceedingly fond of her Scottish manservant, John Brown, seven years her junior. Members of the royal family grew to resent Brown’s influence and rumors ...
( Category: Social Policy December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Faderman, Lillian

Chapter 23 THE PLAGUE PARIAHS The disease appeared out of nowhere. In June 1981 a thirty-three-year-old physician and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA, Michael Gottlieb, reported in the Centers ...
( Category: LGBT December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Aja Raden [Raden, Aja]

Her Majesty’s Not-So-Secret Service When Elizabeth inherited the throne, England’s infrastructure was falling apart, the country was about to explode, once again, into religious civil war, and it faced numerous ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Homa Katouzian

THE AZERBAIJAN REVOLT AND CONFLICTS OVER OIL When the war ended, Iran was facing all the difficulties mentioned above, to which the revolt in Azerbaijan was now added. There were ...
( Category: Satire December 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Simon Winder [Winder, Simon]

Carving up the world Being a monarch was by any conventional measure not all fun. But if one had to pinpoint the absolute summit of the fun monarchical experience, then ...
( Category: Germany December 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Lara Feigel

When he suggested having Mark, I thought to myself, ‘You’ve had all these women and you live with them and you say you love them and then come back after ...
( Category: World War II December 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Whittock, Martyn

The abuses and limitations of the law As with all systems, the system of law in the Middle Ages was open to abuse. Royal justices were at times accused of ...
( Category: England December 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Peter Seddon

MOST UNSAVOURY EVIDENCE SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 1935 Many are the times that members of a packed courtroom have been shocked or revolted by physical evidence put before them, but the general ...
( Category: Lawyers & Criminals November 26,2015 )