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July 23, 2006 09:34 AM EDT -- I received an email this week from the Gather Editorial team about a 2 day education series that is to take place August 22-23 called "Education in the 21st Century." They would like content . . . more
June 27, 2006 06:47 PM EDT -- In 1793, the Upper Canada Act Against Slavery was passed. The Act was inspired by Governor J. G. Simcoe and made Upper Canada (now Ontario) the first British Colony to legislate against slavery. Slavery . . . more
October 02, 2006 05:56 PM EDT -- This Day in History -- 1836: Charles Darwin's return to England Naturalist Charles Darwin  returned to England this day in 1836 after a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle, on which he gathered . . . more
April 24, 2008 01:25 PM EDT -- I am Rome, and Rome is me. I am Greece, and Greece is me. I have in me the best of humanity, and the worst of humanity, as we all do. I am Aurelius and Caligula. I am Socrates; I am also and . . . more
August 21, 2006 05:27 AM EDT -- I am currently reading this book.  I am within 20 pages of being done.  If you want to read a good book on World War II this is it.  It is written fron the tapes of interviews done after . . . more
October 09, 2006 11:45 AM EDT -- Christopher Columbus died 500 years ago this year, but how should Americans remember him this Columbus Day? Was he the grand explorer deserving of the honor long accorded him, or was he a rank imperialist . . . more
March 06, 2007 12:39 AM EST --    The House Where I Was Born STC                            The house where I was born, although it is no . . . more
May 16, 2007 01:17 PM EDT -- I had just assumed that upon the death of the last WWI combat veteran there would have been some mention of him in the major media, after all World War One was our official coming out party as a great . . . more
Six boys of Iwo Jima
by Angelique G.
views: 12 | rating: 9.7 | comments: 4
September 22, 2006 12:47 PM EDT -- I got this in a e-mail a few times and have always stopped to read it. It gives an inside view of the people in the famous photo of the marines holding up the American Flag together at Iwo Jima. The rest . . . more
Menander Is Mine
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 38 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
September 23, 2006 12:46 AM EDT -- A few years ago while searching for original sources of men who had made the entire journey across Eurasia I bought Cathay and the Way Thither by Sir Henry Yule. This is a wonderful collection of a few . . . more
December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --  This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response. Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . . more
Why Is History Important?
by David S.
views: 355 | rating: 10 | comments: 28
February 12, 2008 12:38 PM EST -- I am Program Director for a Living History Museum ( The American West Heritage Center ), so I am very aware of the need to "sell" our cause. I feel that we have a mission that is vital to the . . . more
August 21, 2006 03:37 AM EDT --   When I lived in the area, this was one of the first places I visited. It's beautiful. The area, George Washinton's plantation & home. Visiting gives you a whole new perspective on . . . more
August 24, 2006 01:20 PM EDT -- Eight Planets! Pluto has been officially demoted In a surprise move the International Astronomical Union took the historic vote today, and officially shrunk Earth's neighborhood from nine . . . more
January 09, 2007 09:50 PM EST -- A Carroll County Story     Jeanne Wallace     Mountain Maid of Roaring River   (from "Stories of the Ozarks" by Irene Horner)   (photo from "Ozark . . . more
January 28, 2007 03:52 AM EST -- The Crescent Hotel, built between 1884 and 1886, sits on the crest of West Mountain above Eureka Springs, Ar. It is one of America’s most historic hotels, renowned for the many spirits that continue . . . more
October 03, 2006 06:02 PM EDT -- This Day in History -- 1990: Germany reunified After four decades of Cold War division and with pressure from the German chancellor Helmut Kohl, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to a unified Germany . . . more
October 04, 2006 06:10 PM EDT -- This Day in History -- 1957: Sputnik 1 launched by U.S.S.R. On this day in 1957 the Soviet Union  launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, which orbited the Earth until 1958, inaugurated . . . more
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