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Teachers are turning their students into sleuthing historians with assignments that have them digging through historic ...
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, The Dartmouth looks into how the war impacted ...
It started as a protest over the price of bread, but the women's march on Versailles ended up shaking the foundations of the ...
In our modern world, we would have learned of the battles at Lexington and Concord in real-time, but 250 years ago it arrived ...
An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a Nicaraguan boy once told me. It took me a second to realize he meant ...
Many of the people of this country can trace their ancestry back to a variety of different places and cultures. People have been coming to these shores, seeking liberty and ...
Extolling peace has characterized the classical liberal movement from the eighteenth century, at least from Turgot, on ...
For centuries, papal elections were also diplomatic wrangles, with the great city-states of Italy (Milan, Florence, and Naples) and then the great powers of Europe (Spain, France, and the Holy Roman ...
The militias formed here, helped curb the British attempt to draw soldiers from the east to protect the western settlers,' ...
Christopher Hill was one of the most prolific and influential historians of the 20th century. He was also the product of two ...
MARKS THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. THIS YEAR MARKS 250 YEARS SINCE THE HISTORIC BATTLES OF CONCORD AND ...
Francisco Goya, María Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna, Oil on Canvas, 1785 A serious illness left Goya deaf and withdrawn ...