(The Maps of Norfolk, Virginia: Evolution of A City, for instance, has the “treasure maps” of the journey.)Utilizing more than 2000 articles, maps, plats, photographs, and other contemporary documents, these history-geographies allow the reader to learn about every square inch of Norfolk, ...
Best Books on the History of the American South, recommended by Edward Ayers Read 1 American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S Morgan Read 2 Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin Read 3 Embattled Freedom...
Four Hundred Souls is about African American history, from 1619—when the White Lion, the first African slave ship, arrived in Virginia—to the present, but it's also a really interesting book for anyone fed up with the standard historical narratives we learn in school. The book is a serie...
The 100 Greatest Southeast Asian History and Politics Books list has a focus on politics and imperialism in the region.
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Virginia E. Johnson was an American sex researcher and therapist who, with American gynecologist William H. Masters, conducted pioneering research on human sexuality. The pair were commonly called Masters and Johnson, and they established a world-renowne
He starts by talking about his first wife and son, a family he left behind in Virginia. But she’s not the only skeleton in his closet. His past life is full of lies, deceptions and possibly terrible acts. Emma doesn’t like him talking like this and wants him to stop. Leo’s ...
Book Review:Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?By Philip Gefter June 13, 2024 Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Philip Gefter. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024...
Virginia Woolfis undeniably one of the most renowned modernist literary figures in history. To this day, Woolf continues to be a significant icon in the world of literature. Her authority and image continue to be claimed (or challenged) in various debates about gender, race, feminism, art, po...
根据前句“Many years ago, a French naturalist, the Count de Buffon, wrote some books about natural history.(许多年前,一位法国博物学家布丰伯爵写了一些关于自然史的书。)”可知,这里的内容与这些书有关。所以A选择项“The books were a great success even though some people did not like them(尽管...