Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine immigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense, the all-time best-selling American book that advocated...
In the early months of the COVID pandemic, friends of Stephen Sondheim orchestrated an online party to celebrate the Broadway great's 90th birthday. The star-studded event almost went off without one Tony Award-winner, who ended up advocating for herself with an online posting: "This is very...
Why did the Brothers' War happen? Why is the Holocaust the most well-known genocide? Why is the Battle of Gallipoli important? Why did the French Revolution devolve into the Napoleonic Wars? Why was World War II a turning point in history?
The purpose of this study is to measure as accurately as possible the rate of electoralreplacement in the United States for the postwar period of 1950-2000. For these estimates I rely on the decennial censuses for the period and official statistics on births, deaths, and naturalization. I then...
the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached.At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn Whistler was executed in the summer of 1752 for the crime of ...
Following the American Revolution, the Columbia medical faculty(formerly of King’s College) was combined with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, chartered in 1809, which survives as a division of Columbia University. In 1893 the Johns Hopkins Medical School required all applicants to have a...
In the American colonies too, copyright emerged as part of a governmental response to the threat and promise of the printing press.The first printing press in the North American British colonies arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the end of 1638. The moving force behind the arrival of the ...
Pelham's many illuminating letters, especially to his half-brother John Singleton Copley, provide an important contemporary perspective of the events of the American Revolution. Pelham was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where his father, Peter Pelham, a limner, engraver, and schoolmaster, had ...
Self-Represented Litigants and the Access to Justice Revolution in the State Courts: Cross-Pollinating Perspectives Toward a Dialogue for Innovation in the Courts and the Administrative System In the last ten to fifteen years, state courts have responded to a tidal wave of self-represented litigant...
SUID cases in the 1990s following a large public health campaign called "Back-to-Sleep" that was launched by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), National Institute of Child Health and Development and other groups. The campaign encouraged parents to put their babies to sleep on their ...