An Interview with the Author on the History News NetworkA Founding Father with a Vision of Equality: Richard Newman's op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer Author Spotlight in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle "Gold" Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category Freedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-American church and the lead ...
Die Geschichte von Franz, Freud und Anezka im Wien der 30er-Jahre. Osterreich 1937: Der 17-jahrige Franz Huchel verlasst sein Heimatdorf, um in Wien als Lehrling in einer Trafik – einem Tabak- und Zeitungsgeschaft – sein Gluck zu suchen. Dort begegnet er dem Stammkunden Sigmund Freud und ist sofort fasziniert von dessen Ausstrahlung. Als sich Franz kurz darauf Hals uber Kopf in die Varietetanzerin Anezka verliebt und in eine tiefe Verunsicherung ...
The dramatic story of the United States’ destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and bla ...
Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow Jim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer. Even at the high point of twentieth century liberalism in the North, Jim Crow racism hid in plain sight. Perpetuated by colorblind arguments about “cultures of poverty,” policies focused more on black criminality than black e ...
Virtually no part of the modern United States—the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest movements—can be understood without first understanding the slavery and dispossession that laid its foundation. To that end, historian Gerald Horne digs deeply into Europe’s colonization of Africa and the New World, when, from Columbus’s arrival until ...
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles! ...
Drake's Great Armada by Walter Bigges libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles! ...
Трафальгарское сражение – крупнейшее морское сражение Наполеоновских войн между англичанами и испано-французской коалицией. Оно состоялось 21 октября 1805 года у мыса Трафальгар. Битва длилась 12 часов, англичанами командовал знаменитый адмирал Нельсон. Англичане захватили и уничтожили 18 из 33 кораблей противника. Союзники потеряли также около 7000 бойцов, в то время как англичане всего полторы тысячи. Такие факты выдают нам учебники.
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