Schama is a professor at Columbia but also a brilliant popular historian, very talented at getting on top of huge amounts of information and getting it across in a memorable way. This book gives a historical perspective on the Covid pandemic, even as Schama predicts more will follow. Read ...
Books of illustrated histories include `The First World War: A Photographic History,' by Laurence Stallings and `Columbia Historical Portrait of New York'; Magazine's approach to pictures.SnowRichardF.American Heritage
TITLE: “Washington, District of Columbia. Tent life of the 31st Penn. Inf. (later, 82d Penn. Inf.) at Queen’s farm, vicinity of Fort Bunker Hill.” Library of Congress While McClellan conducted magnificent reviews in the capital of more than fifty thousand troops marching in straight ...
The head of the CTCA was Raymond Fosdick, brother of the esteemed preacher at Riverside Church, who had learned his vice-elimination skills while working for New York’s Committee of Fourteen chaired by John D. Rockefeller. Bloomingdale’s own Episcopal minister, John Peters, was an active par...
Columbia 3.Body Double(1984) Whether they acknowledge it onscreen or not, pretty much all movies are about the act of voyeurism.Body Doubleis just more upfront about it. And for that, you have to respect it. 4.Cashback(2006) The Works ...
Source: Bridge Street AWME Anniversary Book, 1980 via "The Black Churches of Brooklyn" by Clarence Taylor, Columbia University Press, 1994. For more information on the city’s designated landmarks and the abolition movement, visit LPC's story map New York City and the Path to Freedom. This...
TampaPix has the answer and presents the circumstances of that sacrifice. Do you know when the current gun arrived and more importantly, where it came from? The commonly accepted answer is that it came from Fort Morgan, Alabama. MYTH BUSTED! Find out where it really came from. See LARGER ...
Portland lies at the foot ofMt. Hoodand at the confluence of the beautifulColumbiaandWillamette Rivers. Some of the most beautiful views in the world are found 20 miles to the east of Portland along theColumbia River. Lewis & Clark scouted and mapped the Oregon Country after leaving St. Lo...
College, in New York, containing many interesting anecdotes; a general view of the state of religion and learning in Connecticut during the former part of the last century; and an account of the institution and rise of Yale College, Connecticut and of King's (Now Columbia) College, New ...
In 1914 Paramount Pictures was formed and soon became a leading movie studio. In 1929 the company (then part of Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation) provided much-needed funding to CBS Inc. (then Columbia Broadcasting System), which had been established two years earlier. CBS subsequently became ...