History: specific events and topics

Adolf Hitler hat im Verlauf seiner politischen Karriere der ausländischen Presse mehr als hundert Interviews gegeben.

Napoleon Bonaparte, der berühmte Kaiser von Frankreich, träumte von einer Dynastie, die Europa über Jahrhunderte prägen sollte.

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern Americafrom eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of ';paleo posture'In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude ';posture' photos of college students.

The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality.

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

Esquemeling served the Buccaneers as a barber-surgeon, and was present for all their exploits.

Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer.

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject.

Collected here are both of Frederick Douglass'' magazine articles: "My Escape from Slavery," and "Reconstruction," as well as his address "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery.

In ''The Wars of the Jews'' Flavius Josephus gives us valuable insight into the first Jewish Roman War and the rebellions that followed thereafter.

In What''s Wrong With The World Chesterton rightly points out that what people see as "wrong with the world" are only the symptoms of a deeper problem.

Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written.

In the Truth of a Hopi, Edmund Nequatewa relates the Hopis'' myths, legends, belief systems, and oral history.

Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.

Many children of God are so deeply exercised on the matter of guidance that it may be helpful to give a few suggestions as to knowing the way in which our Father would have us walk, and the work He would have us do.

Today Frederick Douglass is best known for his autobiographies; but while he was alive he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer.

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution.

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

Truth spoke about abolition, women''s rights, prison reform, and preached to the Legislature against capital punishment.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form.

Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view.

In My Larger Education, Booker T.

In Frederick Douglass'' autobiography ''My Bondage and My Freedom'' we can see the power of literacy and belief.

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner''s confessions, published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831.

In order to understand the special work which the United States has been called upon to do in the history of Humanity, we have first to remember that the American people are, historically, that section of the people of Europe whose task it was to explore the continent of America, to subdue it and to develop it.

Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women.

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade.

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'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide .

A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal___________________________________________________________________________It is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American culture.

Découvrez le monde fascinant du folklore japonais, où mythes et légendes prennent vie !

Die Stadt Oberhausen verleiht seit 2023 jahrlich die Auszeichnung Baukultur Oberhausen.

'A superbly revealing account of a dreadful and profoundly sad war' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This extraordinary book gives us a unique insight into why and how Japan fought such an appalling war' NICK HEWERA new perspective on Japan during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material.

An Illustrated Guide to One of the Greatest Events of World War IIThe Allied landing in German-occupied Normandy on June 6, 1944 was the greatest amphibious operation in military history.

From One of the Greatest Leaders in American History, a Collection of the Words and Writings that Inspired a Generation of Americans to Become the Greatest Generation In just under three decades of public life, Franklin Delano Roosevelt rose to become one of the greatest orators and leaders in American history.

Sehnsucht, Stigma, Protest.

A Moving and Informative Guidebook and Keepsake Worthy of Coffee Table Display!

When Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure with disgust and reverence.

africa; hunting; short stories; sporting Robert Ruark was perhaps the most renowned safari writer of the twentieth century.

It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent.

The popularity of Family History has increased over the past five years due to TV shows like Genealogy Roadshow, Finding Your Roots, and Who Do You Think You Are?