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Here are quotes from five of his most memorable speeches. " Give Us the Ballot ," delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, D.C., May 17, 1957: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Black History Month Quotes. "The time is always right to do what is right." — Martin Luther King Jr., minister and civil rights activist. "Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you ...
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Dutch: De Meeste Mensen Deugen: Een Nieuwe Geschiedenis van de Mens) is a 2019 non-fiction book by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman. It was published by Bloomsbury in May 2021. [4] It argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings ...
In one day of savage fighting, Sept. 17, 1862, an estimated 6,500 soldiers were killed and at least 15,000 wounded. In 291 brisk, fact-stuffed but engaging, thought-provoking pages, “A Day in ...
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies is a 2016 non-fiction book by David Rieff, published by Yale University Press.Rieff argues the contrarian position that sometimes history, including past mass atrocities, is better forgotten than commemorated: [1] "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present".
Contents. A History of the World in 100 Objects. A History of the World in 100 Objects was a joint project of BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, consisting of a 100-part radio series written and presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor. In 15-minute presentations broadcast on weekdays on Radio 4, MacGregor used objects of ancient ...
The historian Arthur O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) coined the phrase history of ideas [8] and initiated its systematic study [9] in the early decades of the 20th century. Johns Hopkins University was a "fertile cradle" to Lovejoy's history of ideas; [10] he worked there as a professor of history, from 1910 to 1939, and for decades he presided over the regular meetings of the History of Ideas Club. [11]
Women's history month quotes “This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular.