Fort Pulaskiis one of our most popular and historical sites in Savannah, but the remnants of one of Savannah’s oldest forts, Old Fort Wayne, can still be seen today. East ofWashington SquareandEmmet Park, the fort was first built in mid-1700 and was then known as Fort Halifax. Its st...
Levi Boone Helm was an American outlaw andWild West gunfighterborn in Kentucky in 1828. He came from a well-respected family that moved to Missouri when he was a child. Like many other historical figures, his story is shrouded in mystery and folklore, but he was definitely a real person a...
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Volume I: A-L; Volume II: M-Z women and well- and lesser-known figures from seventeenth-century slaves to contemporary figures, many of whom are omitted from other references. The ... B Mitchell-Powell - 《Multicultural Review》 被引量:...
Today the gaol has been redesigned as a visitor centre, refurbishing the cells as they would have been hundreds of years ago. Original scrawlings on the walls of the cells added with eerily realistic wax figures of both guards and prisoners give the whole experience a very voyeuristic feel. ...
While the economic and ecological consquences of chestnut weevil infestation are serious, not much is known about these weevils due to the interesting history of chestnut trees and chestnut production in the United States. American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) once dominated the forests of the ...