Tag: world history

Canada, An Early History Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Canada to 1763 Prehistory to early European contact Pre-contact aboriginal history The first humans to make their homes in North America migrated from Asia. It is generally thought that this migration took place over a now-submerged land bridg...

1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.. Maps of Pearl Harbor The United States government first obtained exclusive use of ...

Letter to a Wall By Racheline Maltese I am a story teller. I came here to write about this place, but that is suddenly not what I am doing. I cried here at your wall today, but I don't know a single person on it. Every time I see a name that reminds me of one I know, I twitch. I do know people who w...

Dante Composes The "Divina Commedia"Author: Church, Richard WilliamDante Composes The "Divina Commedia"1300 - 1318Out of what may be called the civil and religious storm-and-stress periodthrough which the Middle passed into the modern age, there came a greatliterary foregleam of the new life upon wh...

Recantation Of GalileoAuthor: Lodge, Sir OliverRecantation Of Galileo1633From Socrates to Galileo, as from the Church's early martyrs to itslatest victims, runs the same story of conflict between the free human spiritand the repressive environment of custom acting through personal will orthrough con...

Baseball and the National Anthem In 1918, during the heart of America ’s involvement in World War One, the Americans were assigned the right flank of a large Allied army commanded by the French. The bugle sounded and the Americans along with their French and English allies rose and marched forward t...

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...

The Hundred Years War The International History ProjectThe Hundred Years War was an intermittent struggle between England and France in the 14th-15th century over a series of disputes, including the question of the legitimate succession to the French crown. The struggle involved several generations ...

The flying buttress transfers the thrust of the stone roof from the thin nave wall downwards and outwards, enabling the architect to open up the walls into huge stained- glass panels. Flying Buttresses, Notre Dame, Paris Ground Plan of a Gothic Cathedral: Chartres...

World War Two Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 Battle of the Bulge On Dec. 16, 1944, the Nazis launched a furious counterattack in the Ardennes. While overcast skies grounded Allied planes 24 German divisions drove a bulge 60 miles wide and 45 miles deep into the American lines. Part of this s...

American Civil War Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Warren W. Hassler, Jr.: Emeritus Professor of American History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Author of Commanders of the Army of the Potomac and others. The naval war While the Federal armies actually stamped out Confederate land ...

Description of Huns and Goths About AD 390 By Ammianus Marcellinus Source: Robinson, James, ed. Readings in European History. Vol. I. Boston & New York: Ginn & Co., 1904. Ammianus Marcellinus, a retired Roman soldier, wrote his descriptions of the Huns and Goths more than a decade after 376...