(50) US States. Apart from the brief visit of the Scandinavians in the early eleventh century, the Western Hemisphere remained unknown to Europe until Columbus's voyage in 1492. However, the native peoples of North and South America arrived from Asia long before, in a series of migrations ...
AmericanDatingBefore1900WhenthePuritanssetupcampinNorthAmerica,theyalsoestablishedrigorousreligiousmoralexpectations.Theseexpectationsencompassedallaspectsoflife,includingcourtshipandmarriage.Marriagebetweenamanandawomanwasnotseenasanemotionalconnection,butabusinessdeal,whereamanbroughtwealthandsecuritytohiswife,andawomanbroughta...
Important Dates, Events, and Milestones in California History Offers a chronological timeline of important dates, events, and milestones in California history.California's earliest inhabitants were Asianswho traveled the Bering Strait into North America using a now-vanished land bridge. More than 10,00...
The first proposal for Nature to provide science columns for The Times dates back to around 1878, when Norman Lockyer was editor.The 1980s saw Nature expanding its global operations, establishing a string of offices around the world. The 1980 opening of the New York City office in the iconic...
and then Ohio and then Missouri before Joseph and Hyrum Smith were lynched in Illinois, and why Brigham Young then bade America adieu entirely and started his people on the long western march to the Great Salt Lake, where polygamy persisted for most—but not all—of the rest of the ...
The Civil War was America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict, pitting the Union Army against the Confederate States of America. The war resulted in the deaths of more than 620,000 people, with millions more injured and the South left in ruins.1...
The Civil War was America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict, pitting the Union Army against the Confederate States of America. The war resulted in the deaths of more than 620,000 people, with millions more injured and the South left in ruins. ...
The upcoming episode of “Built America Presents,” titled “Food Fights,” promises to be an exciting look into the world of chocolate. This episode will air on History and will dive into the competitive landscape of the chocolate industry during its early days.In this episode, viewers will ...
to the history of those current questions which must form the subjectmatter of sound instruction in citizenship._Sixth._ We have borne in mind that America, with all her uniquecharacteristics, is a part of a general civilization. Accordingly wehave given diplomacy, foreign affairs, world ...
The Civil War was America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict, pitting the Union Army against the Confederate States of America. The war resulted in the deaths of more than 620,000 people, with millions more injured and the South left in ruins. ...