She remembers walking with her big brothers down a sidewalk fractured by the roots of old oak trees while children played hopscotch on the playground. She remembers going outside and clapping erasers together so that plumes of chalk dust rose above her head. And she remembers being told that she was attending a school that many white parents had taken their children out of just a few years earlier because they didn't want them sitting in class with Negroes.
Imperial Roman ethnography was a gift the Romans made for themselves, because it embraced concepts with which they could address the great cultural diversity of their world. It was a gift that came from the conquerors, reflecting their supposition of preeminence. At the same time, Roman ethnography was a somewhat less welcome present for the many peoples who found themselves trapped in Rome's vision, needing to find a place within it that made sense to Roman demands.
I recently gained a new obsession, and I'm ready to share it with the world: finding and analyzing rare vintage images. A picture speaks a thousand words, and these photographs tell us more about history than a textbook chapter ever could. So even if you think history is boring, I'm well-equipped to change your mind, and give you some delicious food for your brain to chew on today.
For the first time in nearly eight centuries, the general public was able to see the remains of one of the Catholic Church's best-known saints. The patron saint of Italy's remains have been resting in a stone sarcophagus for centuries. On Saturday, the coffin was ceremoniously transferred from the crypt to the lower church of the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi. The display will last one month and end on March 22.
The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, today known as the Peoples Temple, was a U.S. new religious movement organization existing between its founding in 1955 until its dissolution in 1978. Founded by Jim Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Peoples Temple spread a message combining elements of Christianity with egalitarian politics. Through the years, Jones tightened his control over the group, first by requiring members to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas together as a Temple "family" rather than with blood relatives.
On Oahu, along a hidden stretch of road in Nuuanu Valley, canopied by thick trees, there's a sharp U-shaped curve that locals know as Morgan's Corner. It's considered one of Hawaii 's most haunted spots, and the location carries a dark past. Over the past 100 years, it's been the scene of death, murder and misfortune, from deadly accidents to violent crime.
In this book of moons, I am writing for people for whom the medieval world and its literatures and arts may be unfamiliar. I hope that in telling the stories of medieval moons, I also introduce these readers to the wonderful, mesmerising realm of medieval texts and images. But I also hope that this book may be useful to those with greater familiarity with medieval languages, literatures, and arts.
Music and England's royal coronations are inextricable. Since the mid-eighteenth century, the coronations of the nation's monarchs have been elevated by the works of prominent composers, most notably the opulent coronation anthem, "Zadok the Priest." This piece, with its regal instrumentation that consists of orchestra-including timpani and brass-and choir, was one of four anthems written by the prolific and celebrated eighteenth-century composer George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) for King George II's coronation on October 11, 1727.
A group of polychrome wood panels discovered under the floorboards of a house in Toledo in 2018 are going on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. They were found during construction of a hotel planned to go up over several buildings in the Bajada del Pozo Amargo street next to Toldeo's Cathedral. They had been stripped from their original location on the upper part of the walls of a quadrangular hall and reused as raw carpentry material in the house's subfloor.
In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto in London. In 1885, President Chester Arthur dedicated the Washington Monument. In 1911, composer Gustav Mahler, despite a fever, conducted the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in what turned out to be his final concert. (He died the following May.) In 1916, the Battle of Verdun, the longest battle of World War I, began in northeastern France.
This Sunday, step back a century (or ten) at the Society for Creative Anachronism's ninth annual Deck the Halls of Valhalla, featuring activities and performances highlighting the arts of the Middle Ages. New York City better known as the Crown Province of stgar resides in the East Kingdom of the SCA, a Medieval history and culture organization with members around the globe.
The bomb exploded 1,900 feet above Hiroshima with devastating effects. At least 70,000 people died in the initial blast from the bombing of Hiroshima, and the death toll over five years may have exceeded 200,000 people due to the aftereffects, according to the US Department of Energy's Office of History and Heritage Resources. Japan and anti-nuclear weapons scientists released an updated higher estimate in the 1970s that counted 140,000 deaths at Hiroshima.
Archaeologists have fought the tides to save a 17th-century shipwreck from a popular nudist beach in Dorset. The remains are believed to be part of the Swash Channel Wreck, a Dutch merchant ship called The Fame of Hoorn that ran aground while approaching Poole Harbour in 1631. The wreck was found on Dorset's Studland Beach at the end of January when Storm Chandra washed away the sand that had kept it hidden for almost 400 years.
The World War II submarine USS Lionfish was part of America's "Silent Service." Despite comprising less than 2% of all US Navy vessels during World War II, submarines like the USS Lionfish sank 55% of Japanese vessels in battle. This once-fearsome vessel is now a 311-foot-long museum exhibit, allowing the public to learn about its top-secret wartime operations. Take a look inside the USS Lionfish.
It was still early in the morning when a rain of fire fell on the forts and trenches of Verdun. With 300 trainloads of ammunition, the Germans had been firing their artillery for hours on end. The thundering of cannons could be heard 150 kilometers (93 miles) away. The chief of the German General Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, had given the order to attack the French.
Dating to the 1st-2nd century A.D., the bronzes are about 20 inches long and mounted to rectangular bases. They capture the little girls in dynamic movement, frozen in the act of propelling themselves forward, their fingers splayed wide on each side of the partridges just about to catch them. The craftsmanship is superior, every detail on the toddlers and partridges realistically depicted with fine materials. The eyes are inlaid with white stones and one of the girls still has her metal irises.
Seven Kings Must Die (2023) is a historical drama film based on Bernard Cornwell's novel Warlord (2020) and is a sequel to the TV series The Last Kingdom (2015-2022). Directed by Edward Bazalgette and produced by Carnival Films, it depicts the build-up to and the Battle of Brunanburh (937), in which King Aethelstan of England (reign 924-939) defeated an alliance of Scots and Vikings. Background & The Last Kingdom The film's protagonist is the fictional warrior and nobleman Uhtred of Bebbanburg (modern-day Bamburgh).
Born in 1815after the death of a much-desired baby boy, Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up with the painful knowledge that her father had longed for a son, and later recalled how, as a child of 11, she'd watched him grieve the death of another son, the only one of his five sons to survive infancy; young Elizabeth climbed onto his knee-only to hear him murmur, "Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy." Stanton later described the moment as decisive.
Debuted this week, the company's new 10-coach Freedom Express train celebrates the country from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, according to Brightline. The design was created in partnership with America250, the bipartisan organization established by Congress to lead the nation's 250th anniversary of the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence.
History is full of Black Francophone figures who have shaped politics, culture, science, and resistance across continents. Yet too often, they remain invisible in school textbooks. These individuals challenged colonial power, redefined identity, confronted racial hierarchies, and transformed intellectual and political life in the Francophone world and beyond. From West Africa to the Caribbean, in scientific research and political activism, they forged new paths in the face of oppression and erasure, leaving legacies that continue to inspire freedom, dignity, and solidarity.
Instead of ending at Andrew Square, the parade will start there, according to a press release from the Allied War Veterans Council, which organizes the annual event. Additionally, the Medal of Honor Park on M Street will now be a designated "family-friendly zone." This year's change to start at Andrew Square will adjust the route slightly: After passing Thomas Park, the procession will take G Street to East 6th Street.
"Cnut: The North Sea King" by Ryan Lavelle is a short and engaging biography of the most ambitious and successful Scandinavian leader of the Viking Age. Lavelle captures both the brutality and pragmatism that allowed Cnut to govern England effectively for almost two decades, despite being an outsider and a foreign conqueror. In 1066 and All That (1930), a parody book of English history,
Then known as Rose Rosenfeld, Freedman was two days short of her 18th birthday when the fire erupted. She escaped by trailing company executives up to the 10th-floor roof, where firefighters pulled survivors to safety, according to The New York Times. In later years, she described turning down what she said were efforts by the factory's owners to pay for her silence, choosing instead to become a lifelong witness to what happened inside those upper floors.
Funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund will support the conservation and reopening of the original dock from Court No.2 at Bow Street Magistrates' Court - the place where Wilde appeared following his arrest in April 1895, ahead of his trial at the Old Bailey for "gross indecency". His prosecution and imprisonment would become one of the most notorious legal cases of the Victorian era, symbolising the criminalisation of same-sex relationships in Britain.
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter tells of an elderly bamboo cutter who discovers a tiny, radiant girl inside a glowing stalk of bamboo. He and his wife raise her as their own daughter, naming her Kaguya-hime. As she grows, she becomes extraordinarily beautiful, attracting suitors from across the land. Five noblemen seek her hand in marriage, but she tests them by assigning each an impossible task-such as retrieving the Buddha's stone begging bowl or the jewelled branch of Mount Hōrai. Each suitor fails.
Caligula (12-41 CE) was the third Roman emperor, who reigned from 37 to 41 CE. A member of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty, he came to power after the death of his great-uncle Tiberius. The ancient sources claim that he was initially a popular ruler, but, after only a few months, he gave in to his sadistic, depraved, and paranoid impulses and began ruling through terror. He was assassinated on 24 January 41 CE by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard.
Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill Cody - the gang of American frontiersmen is all here in The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West. The valuable new volume is by historian Paul Andrew Hutton, an award-winning author, documentary writer, and a Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of New Mexico. Hutton's 565-page history, a New York Times bestseller published last year by Dutton, covers the American frontier from the mid-18th century to 1900.
A magnificent leather and golden silk slipper believed to have once been worn, then lost, or given away by King James II, is going on display at Killerton, a mansion in Devon which houses the National Trust's costume collection. He is said to have worn the slippers when visiting Coventry in in 1687, where a grand banquet was held in his honour, and may have given them to one of his hosts.
Yet, at least one time, it was. This is a story I heard from Dave Hannaman, who worked at an Army human resources organization when I met with him many years ago. (Dave died in 2021.) Dave had been in the Army, including a stint as a "tunnel rat" in Vietnam. He was one of the brave soldiers who would go down into the tunnels the Viet Cong had constructed and booby-trapped. He was that kind of guy.
