Purpose of writing this play is to reclaim the dream of the Father of our Nation, President George Washington by adapting his brainy quotes into Greek style epideictic drama.
After only eight months in Louisiana, GeneralBenjamin Butler departed New Orleans vilified by many Confederate politicians,their military leaders, the Southern press, and some citizens and foreignconsuls living in the city.
In this well-rounded study, which was first published in 1952, author Fanchon Royer vividly presents Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (1648-1695), a seventeenth-century Hieronymite nun of New Spain, known in her lifetime as "e;The Tenth Muse"e;, "e;The Phoenix of America"e;, or the "e;Mexican Phoenix"e;.
The Fontana History of Chemistry, which draws on both the author's own original research and that of other scholars, is an unrivalled work of synthesis.
El enfoque busca reconstruir la genesis que oriento los fundamentos del proceso de ocupacion asi como la conformacion de las relaciones sociales de poder en el espacio regional del Alto Parana entre los siglos XIX-XX.
American Invasions: Canada to Afghanistan, 1775 to 2010 is a thought-provoking analysis of the reasons for American invasions and warmongering over the last two centuries.
An intimate history of the Getty Museum from its early relatively modest days until it unexpectedly received the endowment that made it the worlds wealthiest museum and eventually a private foundation of worldwide influence.
In The Texas Miracle, author John Marshall offers a detailed examination of the largest political fraud in Texas since the Sharpstown scandal in the early 1970s.
This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh light on the end of slavery in the Atlantic World.
Thursday, April 17th, 1941 at 5:55 in the morning a peculiar and outlandish new noise was heard by those on board A vicious howling hissing sound I shall never forget and yet seem never quite able to remember With a horrible rending explosive crunch the first shells came aboard.
Having been born and raised on the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, and having the ghosts of the Civil War about me constantly, I have been passionately interested in the Civil War as long as I can remember.
Probing the Journals of Lewis and Clark far more closely than other works, the book develops the understanding that these Enlightenment gentlemen from Virginia gradually entered the unfamiliar world of the West and Native American animism and magic, and they responded differently.
It was people like Stephen Austin, Sam Houston and Juan Seguin and the defenders of the Alamo, who not only felt the power of the Land, but they became the life that was born from that power.
A pesar de las numerosas leyes que restringían la emigración hacia el Nuevo Mundo, la presencia de criptojudíos (o marranos, como se les llamaba despectivamente) en las colonias españolas es perceptible desde el comienzo de la Conquista y aumenta considerablemente luego de la unificación de los reinos ibéricos en 1580.
When one studies the history of Wisconsin, it is impossible to ignore the significant role played by the lumber industry during the Nineteenth Century.
Actualmente, hay varias de estas calaveras exhibindose en las vitrinas de distintos museos del mundo, y ya han sido descubiertas por lo menos ocho de las trece.
Excluding the capture of New Orleans, the military affairs in southeast Louisiana during the American Civil War have long been viewed by scholars and historians has having no strategic importance during the war.
La fábrica del hombre es la expresión que el impresor Alonso Víctor de Paredes usó para comparar la creación divina del hombre con la producción de libros a finales del siglo XVII en España.
Through this second volume of selected essays, the author continues to bring attention to the Spanish Mexican foundation roots of Texas and the Southwest.
