Le Pays Des Illinois Finds Its Context: The Early History of Illinois in a Continental PerspectiveILLINOIS state historyETHNOHISTORYCOLONIESIMPERIALISMMULTICULTURALISMONE OF THE GREAT JOYS AND CHALLENGES of the professional historian is explaining to audiences why......
Italy is a relatively young nation state, achieving full unification only during theRisorgimentoof 1860-1870. Prior to this, the peninsula consisted of often mutually antagonistic kingdoms, duchies, city-states, and principalities. Some of these regions had a history of autonomous rule, while other...
The notorious mobster Al Capone has reportedly appeared to disrespectful visitors at his funeral plot in an Illinois cemetery. Spectral banjo music has supposedly been heard coming from inside Capone's old cell at Alcatraz, where he was one of the first inmates. Places that are haunted are ...
My FLEX machine talk was a success, but the big whammy for me came during a tour to U of Illinois where I saw a 1" square lump of glass and neon gas in which individual spots would light up on command—it was the first flat-panel display. I spent the rest of the conference ...
to centrality in an East Asian order independent of the Chinese world order more familiar to historians. Ronald P. Toby, (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1977), a historian of early-modern Japan, is Professor Emeritus of History and East Asian Studies at the University of Illinois. His books...
UPSETS:A complete history of every FCS win vs. FBS teams MVFC at-larges I have South Dakota State running the MVFC table this year, so that hands one loss apiece toNorth Dakota StateandNorthern Iowa. I think both teams will have one conference loss entering their Week 12 matchup...
EMC's first models were the "SC" and "NC": testbeds debuted between February and October, 1935 while production models began rolling out of the company's new LaGrange (McCook), Illinois facility in May, 1936. The letter designation stood for the following: ...
The Legislature of Illinois repealed the charter of Nauvoo in 1845. Most of the Mormons gathered at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in June, 1846. Those who were left in Nauvoo were driven out at the point of the bayonet. Early in 1847 pioneers crossed the Plains to Salt Lake Valley, whither ...
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The history of detective fiction in 19th-century Britain finally arrives at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes lives with his sidekick, Dr. John Watson, the narrator of the Holmes stories. Holmes is the creation of fifty-six stories and four short novels by an unsuccessful doctor, Arth...