Mumford noted Stieglitz’s “astringent quality” that rose above the philistine tastes and “stupidities” of American life. LIFE AND WORK INTERTWINED…Clockwise, from top left: Alfred Stieglitz’s famed 1930 image of Grand Central Terminal; one of the photographer’s many images of clouds under...
Great Britain is an island nation off the northwestern coast of Europe whose North American colonies became the Confederation of North America and were the source of the founding leadership of the state of Jefferson and thus of the United States of Mexic
and by extension the Russian Empire, he did not have the backing of his superiors. The company often mused about the advantages of possessing even one Hawaiian Island, but realistically it was doomed to failure. Not only would American and British interests collude against them, but the Tsar ...
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Speeches at the building’s cornerstone ceremony made this explicit. Guy A. Thompson, then president of the American Bar Association, called it “a monument to justice…justice that is the final attribute of God himself…. This will be her temple. Here her shrine will be. Here she shall ab...
unemployment insurance, and economic aid, based on means, to assist both the elderly and dependent children. The president was careful to mitigate some of the criticism from what was, at the time, in the American context, a revolutionary concept. He specifically insisted that social security be...
The SSEdmund Fitzgeraldsank in Lake Superior on 10 Nov 1975 taking with her a crew of 29. The ship was launched in 1958 and was owned by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. As a freighter, the ship primarily carried taconite iron ore to iron works in various Great Lake ports. The...
The Spanish- American War and World War I confirmed the nation's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. In the ...
Photo: Archipreneur Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 The Denver Art Museum — DAM is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. The museum is one of the largest art museums between the West Coast and Chicago. It is known for its collection of American Indian art, and...