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Vor 2 Tagen · This short think piece is reminiscent, in both size and premise, of Eric Foner’s Nothing But Freedom, and can be read as the prequel to Foner’s focus on the post-emancipation world. Berlin does not set out to write ‘a full history of abolition in the United States’, but instead offers historians ‘a framework by which that history ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Foner singles out that idea as something that historians tend to overlook for the more progressive notes that Lincoln sounded at any given point in his career. In reminding us both that a politically inactive 1850s Abe had spoken up for the scheme, and that he pursued the policy into 1863, the author deftly swats aside the wishful thinking that would deem colonisation a crafty, short-term ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Editor Henry A. Reeves wrote in Greenport's Republican Watchman that "In the name of freedom for Negroes, [the proclamation] imperils the liberty of white men; to test an utopian theory of equality of races which Nature, History and Experience alike condemn as monstrous, it overturns the Constitution and Civil Laws and sets up Military Usurpation in their stead."
Vor 4 Tagen · Heinrich VIII. ( englisch Henry VIII; * 28. Juni 1491 im Palace of Placentia, Greenwich; † 28. Januar 1547 im Whitehall-Palast, London) war von 1509 bis 1547 König von England, ab 1509 Herr der Lordschaft Irland und ab 1541 König von Irland. Als jüngerer Sohn von König Heinrich VII. und Elizabeth von York wurde er nach dem frühen Tod ...
18. Mai 2024 · Henry V, a strategic monarch, reshaped medieval Europe with courage and leadership, emerging as a beacon of strength in the Hundred Years' War.
Vor 2 Tagen · John Henry Cornell (1828–1894), Komponist, Organist und Lehrbuchautor; Thomas Houseworth (1828–1915), Fotoverleger und Fotograf; Alexander Lawrie (1828–1917), Maler; Francis McNeirny (1828–1894), römisch-katholischer Bischof von Albany; William Backhouse Astor junior (1829–1892), Unternehmer; Josephine Pollard (1834–1892), Dichterin
Vor einem Tag · Charley Patton and his family are believed to have moved around 1900 to the Dockery Plantation, where he came under the influence of an older musician, Henry Sloan. In turn, Patton became the central figure of a group of blues musicians including Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, and Eddie "Son" House, who played around the local area. Because of its location, central to Sunflower County’s black ...
