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Crum was the first African American to hold the position [6] [11] [21] and held it until March 4, 1909. [22] The heavy opposition he faced had catapulted him onto the national stage. After Roosevelt left office, his successor, William Howard Taft, considered Crum's status in Charleston to be a political liability.
The Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, prior to 2016 known as The New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize or, simply, the American History Book Prize, is an American literary award given annually by the New-York Historical Society for an adult non-fiction book on American history or biography, copyrighted in the year of the award, "that is distinguished ...
Demosthenes (First Olynthiac, 20)—The orator took great pains to convince his countrymen that the reform of the theoric fund was necessary to finance the city's military preparations. From this moment until 341 BC, all of Demosthenes' speeches referred to the same issue, the struggle against Philip.
The Age of Reform is a 1955 [1] Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Richard Hofstadter.It is an American history, which traces events from the Populist Movement of the 1890s through the Progressive Era to the New Deal of the 1930s.
He was also a member of the Imperial Archaeological Institute of Germany, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and was a knight of the Greek Order of the Saviour. [3] [4] He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1893. [5]
With this, Mill can be considered among the earliest male proponents of gender equality, having been recruited by American feminist John Neal during his stay in London circa 1825–1827. [74] His book The Subjection of Women (1861, publ.1869) is one of the earliest written on this subject by a male author. [75]
The History of Photography; A History of the Book in America; A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865; A History of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America; History of the Movement from 1854 to 1890; History of the Rockaways from the Year 1685 to 1917; A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Roger Demosthenes O'Kelly (October 25, 1880 – July 11, 1962) was a deaf, mute, partially-blind African-American lawyer. "[O'Kelly] claimed the distinction of being the only Negro deaf lawyer in the United States and the second deaf person to graduate from Yale University in her history of over 250 years."