Common Sense By Thomas Paine challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. Two Treatises of Gov’t Political philosophy publi...
In 1885, the Republic of France, important friend during the American Revolution, donated the largest statue in the world, Liberty Enlightening the World, to the United States of America. The statue would celebrate its century of independence. To ship it, the statue was broken down into 350 ...
That's hard to say without criteria as to what's important, but if I had to choose, I would rank my events like this, assuming American History starts at settlement: 1) Ratification of the Constitution - more important than the revolution itself, as those are common. Replacing them with ...
“The World is the people’s paper and it now appeals to the people to come forward and raise the money for the statue’s base.” The statue, he said was paid for by “the masses of the French people. Let us respond in like manner.” The circulation of the World increased by ...
history of Poland, a survey of important events and people in thehistoryofPolandfrom the time of its foundation as a state. Located at a geographic crossroads in central Europe, Poland has waxed and waned over the centuries, buffeted by the forces of regional history. In the mid-1500s unit...
The First World War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918, was a global conflict that resulted in the death of millions of people and the collapse of empires. It redrew the map of Europe and set the stage for the Second World War. The Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, was the ...
Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution. He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington. His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was so realistic that George Washington reportedly...
a“Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? Who will ever be able to write it” Thomas Jefferson, 1815. The American Revolution was the single most important event in the history of North America. Not only did it end formal colonial ties with Great Britain...
This article is a survey of important events and people in the history of Bulgaria from ancient times to the present.
The black Americans have played the vital role in our country history, they attended the American Revolution and the antifascist war positively and to develop US's economical culture also to make the very big contribution.[translate]