Here's a look at the history of Black civil rights in the United States of America, from the 1500s to the present day.
Another excellent way to discover a property’s history is through Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and architectural surveys. These resources provide a detailed physical snapshot of the property, highlighting its construction materials, layout, and historical modifications. For properties with architectural sign...
When leaders call COVID-19 the “China virus,” it harkens back to decades of state-sanctioned discrimination against Asian Americans.
In America, and especially in the nineteenth century, the idea that God speaketh rather than spake, and that he might be dissenting from the reputable clergy, would inspire a host of enthusiastic prophets and religious movements, notably including the young Joseph Smith and his Latter-Day Saints...
The Catholic University of America.Stallings, Anne Marie.The Catholic University of America.Stallings, A.-M., 2006. Culture, history, and property rights in the emergence of groundwater irrigation: Cochabamba, Bolivia. Ph.D. Dissertation, Catholic Uni- versity of America....
did mark a major shift toward an agrarian society. It also heralded the advent of homeownership in a country that was eager to establish settlement from east to west.In this article, we look at the original investment, the birth of homeownership, andreal estateas we know it in America ...
Slavery is the condition in which one human being is owned by another. Under slavery, an enslaved person is considered by law as property, or chattel, and is deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. Learn more about the history, le
these societies provide for the automatic inheritance of property between spouses, and between parents and children, and allow these close kin to co-own property without joint ownership contracts. In addition, such societies often allow close kin a variety of automatic privileges such as sponsoring ...
Functionally, socialism and free-market capitalism are often divided on two core issues:property rightsandcontrol of production. In a capitalist economy, private individuals and enterprises own the means of production and have the right to profit from them. Private property rights are taken very seri...
5 How would Alexis de Tocqueville, famous for writing "Democracy in America" nearly 200 years ago, observe and reflect on the story of China today? With a population of more than 1.4 billion, the country has eliminated absolute poverty and is forging ahead toward the goal of common ...