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Engraving of Anna Maria van Schurman Cornelis van Dalen the Younger after Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen, Anna Maria van Schurman, c. 1657, engraving. Van Schurman was born in Cologne, at the time part of the Holy Roman Empire, a daughter of wealthy parents, Frederik van Schurman, from Antwerp (d. 1623) and Eva von Harff de Dreiborn.
The Limits of Liberty: American History 1607-1980 is a book by historian Maldwyn Jones, first published in 1983 in the Short Oxford History of the Modern World series.. It covers 373 years of American history and is the most comprehensive single-authored book on this topic, [1] taking nearly 20 years for the author to complete.
"Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!", a famous excerpt from the "Second Reply to Hayne" speech given by Senator Daniel Webster during the Nullification Crisis. The full speech is generally regarded as the most eloquent ever delivered in Congress. The slogan itself would later become the state motto for North Dakota.
A just and lasting peace: The US peace movement from the Cold War to desert storm (Noble Press, Chicago) John Whiteclay Chambers, ed. (1992) The Eagle and the Dove: The American Peace Movement and United States Foreign Policy, 1900-1922 (Syracuse University Press0 online; Charles Chatfield (1992). The American peace movement: Ideal and activism ...
Here are 30 famous quotes and lyrics from Bob Marley that capture his legacy. Bob Marley quotes to spread the love “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul / Wisdom is better than silver and ...
A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authorised book to the present day). 1664. La Thébaïde (play) – Jean Racine; 1665. Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great) (play) – Jean Racine; Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous) Saptapaykar – Alaol (in Bengali) 1666
The most famous call to research and write about the history of American women in this period came from distinguished historian, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. in his collected essays published as New Perspectives in American History, in 1922. His graduate students and their graduate students would later contribute to the emergence of the scholarly ...
Virtually every American Patriot read his 47-page pamphlet Common Sense, [6] [7] which catalyzed the call for independence from Great Britain. The American Crisis was a pro-independence pamphlet series. Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution.