Tag: world history

Sojourner Truth 1797(?)-l883 Born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was one of the earliest and most passionate of female abolitionists-for she herself had once been a slave. In the 1820s, when still quite a young woman, she escaped from her New York owner after being brutally treated and sold awa...

Ancient Rome The Samnite Wars 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...

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Antipapal Movement: Arnold Of Brescia Author: Neander, Johann A. W. St. Bernard And The Second Crusade, A.D. 1145-1155 During the first half of the twelfth century - a period marked by conflicting spiritual tendencies - in Italy began a work of ...

The Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine, was the fruition of early American policy. There had long been a deep-seated conviction on the part of the people of the United States that the opportunities of a hard-won freedom would be threatened by the ambitions of European powers and that the aims of th...

The Roman civilization was one of the most influential in world history, and its impact can still be felt today in areas such as politics, architecture, language, and law. The Roman Republic, which was established in 509 BCE, was the first known republic in the world, and it laid the foundation for ...

Thomas Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine To the President of the United States (James Monroe)Monticello, October 24, 1823 DEAR SIR, -- The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us...

The Amorites The Amorites were members of an ancient Semitic-speaking people who dominated the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine from about 2000 to 1600 BC. In the oldest cuneiform sources (c. 2400–c. 2000 BC), the Amorites were equated with the West, though their true place of origin was...

Mamelukes Usurp Power In EgyptAuthor: Muir, Sir WilliamMamelukes Usurp Power In Egypt1250From A.D. 969 to 1171 the Arabian dynasty of caliphs called Fatimites -because they professed to trace their descent from Fatima, the daughter ofMahomet - reigned in Egypt. Their downfall was due to their own de...

Literature of the Holocaust and Anne Frank The publication of 'Het Achterhuis' (The House Behind) in 1947 made readers intimate confidantes of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who spent two years hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Translated into English as 'The Diary of a Young Girl' in 1952...

John Buford(1826-1863) Within six months of his having played a key role in the opening of the battle of Gettysburg, cavalryman John Buford was dead of typhoid fever. The Kentucky-born soldier had moved to Illinois before being appointed to West Point. Graduating in 1848 he was posted to the dragoo...

Quotations of Thomas Jefferson "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. . . ."Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 "it is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free."Thomas Jefferson ...

During the first half of the sixteenth century, while Portugal was acquiring a commercial empire in Africa and Asia , its powerful neighbor and rival Spain was acquiring a very different but equally lucrative empire in the Americas . Spain 's colonial empire was organized around two great cities. In...