Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D G Kelley Princeton ProfessorImani Perry—a prolific scholar of African American Studies whose biography of Lorraine Hansberry,Looking For Lorraine, won the 2019 PEN Biography Prize—recommends five books she considers essential to...
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1819. The stamp art is a photograph taken at sunset in Cheaha State Park. Alabama photographer Joe Miller took the picture from the park’s Pulpit Rock Trail. With Pulpit Rock in the foreground, most of the area in the valley below the overlook is part of ...
12 Jan 1944: USS Alabama arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. Read More12 Jan 1945: USS Yorktown (Essex-class) planes hit the vicinity of Saigon, French Indochina (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). TF 38 aviators sunk ... Read More WW2 in the News 29 Dec 2024: WW2DB's ...
December 20, 1860 - South Carolina responds to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President by being the first southern state to secede from the Union.1861February 4, 1861 - In Montgomery, Alabama, the convention to form the Confederated States of America opens. Four days later, with Jefferson...
heavily armed CSS Alabama sank the USS Hatteras, a steamer belonging to the United States Navy. 1864: In New York, Frederick Loeser, the founder of Frederick Loeser and Company, and his wife gave birth to Charles Alexander Loeser, the Harvard graduate and ...
Now, therefore be it resolved that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby honor the great work of the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh; and Be it further resolved, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare February 20th through 25th Carnegie Library Week in the...
John S. McCain, Sr., Captain of theUSS Ranger, 1937 to 1939. Photo taken on theRanger, October 1937 Prior to January 1, 1942, she operated with both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleet, where she performed routine training functions and participated in routine battle maneuvers. On December 7, ...
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In April 2009, Somali pirates captured Captain Richard Phillips of the merchant ship MV Maersk Alabama and held him hostage inside a small, enclosed lifeboat. The American destroyer USS Bainbridge was towing the boat to calmer waters in the Indian Ocean when ransom negotiations stalled, and the ...