epub |eng | 2019-02-22 | Author:Mark Peterson

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND GREATER VIRGINIA During the 1790s, events in France took unpredictable turns. As Bostonians followed these developments, their interpretations of the French Revolution often led them to ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-01 | Author:Deirdre Mask [Mask, Deirdre]

* * * Nathan Bedford Forrest was a slave trader. He sold thousands of black slaves out of a “Negro Mart” in downtown Memphis, often advertising that his merchandise came ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-23 | Author:Deirdre Mask

RACE 10 Hollywood, Florida WHY CAN’T AMERICANS STOP ARGUING ABOUT CONFEDERATE STREET NAMES? For two and a half years, Benjamin Israel, an African American Orthodox Jew, attended every meeting of ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Sir Joseph Banks

January 1770 1770 January 1. The new year began with more moderate weather than the old one ended with, but wind as foul as ever. We venturd to go a ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Eric Weiner

* * * I’m walking along the Royal Mile one day, feeling pleased with my progress, when I spot a church. Called St. Giles, it is impressive with its crown-shaped ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-05 | Author:Philipp Blom

VIRTUE IN THE DROWNING CELL Life in Amsterdam offers a perfect example of this pitiless dynamic, partly because its approach to the world seemed to be justified by its breathtaking ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:Philipp Blom [Blom, Philipp]

VIRTUE IN THE DROWNING CELL Life in Amsterdam offers a perfect example of this pitiless dynamic, partly because its approach to the world seemed to be justified by its breathtaking ...

epub |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Wiltse, Jeff

Colonial Park Pool, Harlem, New York, 1937. Through location and devious administration, New York public officials encouraged de facto segregation at its WPA swimming pools. New York City Parks Photo ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-09 | Author:Archer Butler Hulbert [Hulbert, Archer Butler]

DISTANCE IN MILES. From Carlisle to Shippensburg 21 " Shippensburg to Fort Loudoun 24 " Fort Loudoun to Fort Littleton 20 " Port Littleton to Juniatta Crossing 14 " Juniatta ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kennedy, Rebecca Futo; [Rebecca Futo Kennedy]

Notes 1. Madeline Henry’s attempt to move Aspasia outside of the discourse of prostitution has, sadly, not gained traction among many scholars in part because her final assessment of Aspasia ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-19 | Author:Sandra Hempel

Illustration of a woman with malaria, from a German publication on diseases, 1929. In 1740, the English politician Horace Walpole wrote to a friend to explain why he had left ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:David Abulafia

epub |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:<unknown> [<unknown>]

* * * * * * * * * Previous Page Next Page Section 5 Previous Page EPISODE 1 Section 5 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jared Diamond

The 1657 Meireki fire, and the resulting demand for timber to rebuild Japan’s capital, served as a wake-up call exposing the country’s growing scarcity of timber and other resources at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Lee Sandlin

If there was a heart to the city, it was down from the old French Quarter, behind the warehouse district at the southwest curve of the waterfront crescent. This was ...