Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Nauert, Charles G.

5 Triumph and disaster By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the programme of humanistic studies and the dream of a renewal of ‘civilized’ learning and literature and an end ...
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Novick

III If one had to choose a single term to characterize the dominant tendency in postwar American historical writing, “counterprogressive” would seem the best choice, for no project was more ...
( Category: History & Theory May 4,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Williams Jr, Robert A.

CONCLUSION We can now begin to get a better sense of the role of the Classical idea of the savage in the medieval Christian era. If a myth, legend, or ...
( Category: Historiography April 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-28 | Author:Robert Morrison

PUBLISHED IN April 1816, this illustration of the farm compound of La Haye Sainte plainly shows the damage it sustained ten months earlier during the Battle of Waterloo. Time and ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources April 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-28 | Author:New York Public Library & Edmund White & New York Public Library & Edmund White

* * * • • • • • MARCUS: What were you trying to do? What were your hopes? RIVERA: Marsha and I fought for the liberation of our people. ...
( Category: LGBT April 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Doug Bock Clark

A LITTLE AFTER FIVE A.M., as the emerging sun outshone the eastern stars but the western half of the sky still lay in night, Jon and his companions awoke and ...
( Category: Conservation April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Martin A. Berger [Berger, Martin A.]

49 Horace Cort, Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark Uses His Billy Club on Black Woman, Selma, Alabama, January 25, 1965. AP/Wide World Photos and Horace Cort, New York. 50 Bill ...
( Category: Criticism & Essays April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:James E. Lindsay [James E. Lindsay]

The muhtasib [market inspector] must take the jizya from them according to their social status. Thus, at the beginning of the year a poor man with a family pays one ...
( Category: Islam April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Dolby [Dolby, Karen]

THE ULTIMATE ACCESSORY Just as French was the language of court in many countries across Europe, so French tastes in fashion, style, art and architecture dominated from the Middle Ages. ...
( Category: Sexuality April 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Matyszak

PTOLEMY II This Ptolemy is distinguished from his father by his sobriquet ‘Philadelphos’. (The first Ptolemy is sometimes known as Ptolemy I Soter – the Saviour – though whom or ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology April 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Birmingham

12 LEGENDS AND LEGACIES Each of the old families has its favorite legend, and Aunt Elvira Nathan Solis knew them all. Some of the most romantic, to be sure, involved ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Estulin, Daniel

Chapter Five Television The slylest form of control is making people think they are free while having someone manipulate their every move. One form of dictatorship is being in a ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies April 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Jacky Colliss Harvey

For some weeks past we have had with us by the sea-shore a beautiful little Italian girl… who has a remarkable fondness for a pretty little black and white kitten ...
( Category: Horses April 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-26 | Author:Ewan Clayton

Fig. 48. The Talantograph, a fold-out (pl. 3) in Benjamin Franklin Foster’s Practical Penmanship being a development of the Carstairian system, Albany, 1832. The impact of the Industrial Revolution Though ...
( Category: Calligraphy April 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hallie Rubenhold

From the time Mrs. Malcolm first encountered “her sister,” she claimed that drink was Elisabeth Stride’s primary failing. She was always in need of money, and Mary “had her doubts” ...
( Category: Serial Killers April 9,2019 )