Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies byeKindleReviews Description ANewYork Timesbestseller:A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at life on Pennsylvania Avenue with America’s first families, by the man who spent nearly three decades in their midst J. B. West, chief usher...
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2.a theory that all cultural phenomena are historically determined and that all historians should study a period on its own merits. 3.a search for the laws of historical evolution. 4.a profound or an excessive respect for historical institutions, as traditions or laws. Alsohistorism.— historic...
Alexander von Humboldt‘s visit to Mexico began inAcapulcoon March 22, 1803, and lasted for almost a year. (He left Mexico viaVeracruzfor the USA on March 7, 1804.) In his year in Mexico, Humboldt had been incredibly busy. He had measured, recorded, observed and written about anything ...
If you’ve enjoyed my ExUrbe blog posts and stories about history over the years, here’s the book-length version on its way! Inventing the Renaissance: the Myth of a Golden Age, coming out February 13th 2025 in the UK (pre-order through Amazon.co.uk in hardcover, Kindle e-book or ...
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on Kindle and did a search. Unless I’m missing something, I can find no other time in the book where Churchill himself is quoted using the phrase “darkest hour.” So, the movie about Churchill uses for its title a term that Churchill himself specifically asked peoplenotto use. ...
In Buenos Aires, for instance, British residents founded clubs for cricket and a dozen other sports, but it was the Buenos Aires Football Club, founded June 20, 1867, that kindled Argentine passions. In almost every instance, the first to adopt football were the cosmopolitan sons of local ...
Matt Ridley: "[This book] gave me the important message — which my teachers had somehow mostly missed telling me — that science is not a catalog of facts, but the search for new and bigger mysteries." Get on Amazon The Origin of Species Charles Darwin Recommended By Paul Graham Matt Ri...
Modernism was a movement in the fine arts in the late 19th to mid-20th century, defined by a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. It fostered a period of experimentation in literature, music, dance, visual art, and a