The Mind of America, 1820-1860. By Rush Welter. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. xvi + 603 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95.) Recent historians have focused on what has been called the "Cult of True Womanhood" and the role of the women's press in pr...
does close to the protective ground and often beneath other plants, shrubs and trees. Compared to other larger foliage, violets do seem to look as though they are shrinking, growing smaller. As applied to shy people, the phrase first appeared in both America and Great Britain in the 1820s....
Define vol-au-vents. vol-au-vents synonyms, vol-au-vents pronunciation, vol-au-vents translation, English dictionary definition of vol-au-vents. n. A light pastry shell filled with a ragout of meat or fish. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
Europe was eagerly inquiring for new fiber supplies at the very time when the plantation states of America were under the strongest pressure for a new source of income. The green-seed, short-staple variety of cotton had long been cultivated for domestic use in the colonies from New Jersey to...
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), America’s “Quaker poet” of freedom, faith and the sentiment of the common people, was born in a Merrimack Valley farmhouse, Haverhill, Massachusetts, on the 17th of December 1807. Family Ancestry &... ...
The socioeconomic development of the 13 English colonies in North America had as its basis elements of the capitalist order. (The New England colonies were Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island; the Middle Atlantic colonies were New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware...
Managers of Virtue: Public School Leadership in America, 1820-1980by David Tyack; Elisabeth Hansot Examines public education in the United States in the 1930s and 1980s and argues that the latter decade presents educators with a much greater crisis. Demo... RBHM Levin - 《Journal of Policy...
V. Auer directed geographical and geological expeditions in South America. The role of the state in the organization of scientific research was enhanced during the contemporary scientific and technological revolution in Finland. Subdivisions of the state-operated Technical Research Center of Finland, ...
THE ARTS IN LATIN AMERICA 1492–1820 BY JOSEPH J RISHEL WITH SUZANNE STRATTON㏄RUITTNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1111/j.1467-8357.2007.00863_4.xCRAIG BUNCHBlackwell Publishing LtdThe Art Book
1. To run into; collide with: a sloop that had run foul of the submerged reef. 2. To come into conflict with: a pickpocket who ran foul of the law. run in place To go through the movements of running without leaving one's original position. run interference To deal with problems or...