A Boston history podcast, where hosts Nikki and Jake share their favorite stories from the long history of the Hub.
, Tim, Adam Crymble, and Louise Falcini. “Loose, Idle and Disorderly: Vagrant Removal in Eighteenth-Century Middlesex.” Lecture, British History in the Long 18th Century from the University of London School of Advanced Study, London, United Kingdom, May 29, 2013. (Available as apodcast)...
, Tim, Adam Crymble, and Louise Falcini. “Loose, Idle and Disorderly: Vagrant Removal in Eighteenth-Century Middlesex.” Lecture, British History in the Long 18th Century from the University of London School of Advanced Study, London, United Kingdom, May 29, 2013. (Available as apodcast)...
I have just finished listening to Mike Duncan’s very lengthy podcast series onA History of Rome. The last decades of the Empire were such a mess, but my attention was arrested by the prominence of two women, Placidia and Pulcheria, who despite their differences, became powerful in their ...
Several years ago, I heard a fascinating “99% Invisible” podcast episode on the late nineteenth-century street electric lighting known as moonlight towers. A mention was made of moonlight towers being used in Baltimore, so I began what turned out to be a fruitless hunt for information on ...
Stephen F. Austin is a public university located in east Texas. Founded as a teachers’ college in 1923, the university was named after one of Texas’s founding fathers, Stephen F. Austin. Its campus resides on part of the homestead of Thomas Jefferson Rusk. Stephen F. Austin is one of...
Old Homestead House Museum 353 Myers Ave | Cripple Creek, CO | 80813 (719) 689-9090 Map Learn More Visit Website Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun 4250 Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Rd | Colorado Springs, CO | 80906 (719) 578-5367 Map Learn More Visit Website Dr. Lester L. Williams...
Soldiers choosing to take land in the Paddockwood area would qualify for both their soldier settlement quarters of 160 acres, plus their homestead quarter of 160 acres. The larger half section land base, it was thought, would help soldiers establish their farms more quickly. The Board checked ...
The second event was on Saturday 1 August in the Ecotherapy Grounded Den. There was a fair bit of confusion on our location as we’d been moved from the billed Migration Pavilion and I think some of the Shuffle team thought we were in the Homestead Pavilion again. Unfortunately I think th...
EPISODE 1: THE MISSING B-25 On the afternoon of January 31, 1956, a B-25 bomber on a training mission ditched into the Monongahela River near what is now Sandcastle Water Park. Drivers on the Homestead High Level Bridge parked their cars and watched as the plane headed toward them. When...