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The Byzantine Empire, Part One Eastern Europe, And Russia To 1600 Donald MacGillivray Nicol: Koraës Professor Emeritus of Byzantine and Modern Greek History, Language, and Literature, King's College, University of London. Director, Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1...

First American LegislatureAuthor: Campbell, CharlesFirst American LegislatureAs a distinctly American event the beginning of formal legislation inthis country has special interest, no less for the general reader than forstudents of legal history. None of the early institutions of the fathers ismore ...

A History of England Archbishops of Canterbury Name Reign Augustine (Austin) 597-604 Laurentius (Lawrence) 604-619 Mellitus 619-624 Justus 624-627 Honorius 627-653 Deusdedit 655-664 Theodore (Theodorus) 668-690 Berhtwald (Beorhtweald) 693-731 Tatwine 731-734 Nothelm 735-739 Cuthbert (Cuthbeorht) 7...

The American Civil War, Abolition, The Movement Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 There can be no doubt that antislavery, or "abolition" as it came to be called, was the nonpareil reform. Abolition was a diverse phenomenon. At one end of its spectrum was William Lloyd Garrison, an "immediatist," who de...

England Under Edward The First, Called Longshanks Author: Dickens, Charles Chapter XVI. It was now the year of our Lord 1272; and Prince Edward. the heir to the throne, being away in the Holy Land, knew nothing of his father's death. The barons, however, proclaimed him king, immediately after the...

Mesopotamia Edited By: Robert Guisepi Mesopotamia is a region, not a country. Refer to the individual Peoples that made up Mesopotamia; the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and to some degree the Hittites, Phoenicians and PersiansIn the narrow sense, Mesopotamia is the area b...

In 1195 Isaac II was deposed and blinded by his brother Alexius III. The Westerners, who had again blamed the failure of their crusade on the Byzantines, saw ways of exploiting the situation. The emperor Henry VI had united the Norman Kingdom of Sicily with the Holy Roman Empire. He inherited the am...

Ancient Rome The Roman Army Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed by permission) "Remember, ...

RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The International History Project The Reconstruction Period, an Overview (1865-77) Reconstruction was a period in U.S. history during and after the American Civil War in which attempts were made to solve the political, social, and econ...

Mo Dec 28 1862General Hospital New house of Refuge Ward H, St Louis Dear parentsI resume my pen once more for the purpose of writeing you a few lines my health isimproveing very fast I think considering I am entirely over the measles coug & Ithink about over the measles I havent gained my streng...

Latin AmericaEstablishment of Latin American StatesAuthor: Allen PikermenDate: 2002The new nations of Latin America faced a complex of dilemmas thatbequeathed a frustrating century of political instability and foreign economicdomination. Civil wars, revolutions, and regimes came and went with alarmi...

Founding Of The House Of Hapsburg Author: Coxe, William Founding Of The House Of Hapsburg1273 The house of Hapsburg - also called the house of Austria - owes its origin and firm establishment to the most celebrated of the Hapsburgs, a German princely family who derived their name from Hapsburg cast...