Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:Mexico, Zachary

CHINA UNDERGROUND Our group occupied the “back of the bus,” a five-person bunk that takes up the rear. In order to chase away the smells of cigarette smoke and unwashed ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Gerry Bowler [Bowler, Gerry]

The Appropriators In which a multitude of interest groups, often at the margins of society, attempt to use Christmas to promote their viewpoints christmas is the biggest single event on ...
( Category: Christmas March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Stone

Augusto Pinochet greeting Kissinger, June 1976. After overthrowing Allende in a CIA-aided coup ordered by Nixon himself, Pinochet seized power and proceeded to murder more than 3,200 opponents and jail ...
( Category: History & Theory March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Ferguson

The three college nights we’d been too had each showcased three schools. “Nine,” I said. We could have ticked off the talking points in our sleep (literally, as it happened). ...
( Category: Fatherhood March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Deverell

Figure 34. Growing up in Yard No. 3: The young Walter Malone Jr. Author’s collection. The macabre statement suggests another enduring irony of Simons. Because in a sense the reporter ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Bates [Bates, Stephen]

By 1815 Captain Barclay was having troubles of his own and he was certainly not fighting Napoleon, having retired from the army after the Walcheren expedition so he could devote ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Dane Huckelbridge

According to some sources, Mark Twain was as fond of Old Crow as he was of tall tales. (Old Crow) How solemn and beautiful, indeed. While the passage is certainly ...
( Category: Whiskey March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Svasek, Maruska.

The Study Researchers from different disciplines have analysed the dynamic relationship between art and emotion from various perspectives.6 Matravers, for example, writes: ‘Great art provides some of the most valuable ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 26,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-11 | Author:Stephen Pimpare

Amartya Sen more recently put it this way:Even though African American slaves in the pre–Civil War South may have had pecuniary incomes as large as (or even larger) than those ...
( Category: Poverty March 26,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Akinyele Omowale Umoja [Umoja, Akinyele Omowale]

“Let the Spirit Ride”: Boycott Rudy in Yazoo County Yazoo County was another community that was inspired by the Meredith March. The year after the historic march came there, in ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Iris H. Tuan & Ivy I-Chu Chang

Mela or Lila: A Critical Assessment Schechner’s writings on the Ramlila of Ramnagar, often associated with his interest in interculturalism from the 1980s onward, have come under severe criticism. In ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Frank M. Snowden;

Figure 15.3 Jacob Riis, “Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement,” from How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890). Another factor promoting a profoundly ...
( Category: Public Health March 26,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-03-18 | Author:Simon James & Stefan Krmnicek

Chapter 12 Provincial Art Alexandra W. Busch and Henner von Hesberg Introduction: On the concept and meaning of ‘provincial art’ The concept of ‘art’ is often linked to fine art ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:Anne Gerritsen & Giorgio Riello

Notes 1 L. H. Sigourney (1868), Letters of Life. New York: D. Appleton, p. 46; and (1854), Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since. Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke and Sons, pp. ...
( Category: Museum Studies & Museology March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-26 | Author:Walter LaFeber

“The Higher the Satellite, the Lower the Culture?” American “soft power,” as its advocates proudly termed it, was now fully in view.38 Soft power referred to the influence of U.S. ...
( Category: Basketball March 26,2020 )