of this location is now Jackson Park in Chicago. The chief planner was the Chicago architectDaniel H. Burnham;Charles B. Atwood was designer in chief; andFrederick Law Olmstedwasentrustedwith landscaping. The fair’s new buildings had impressiveClassicalfacades with a uniform cornice height of 60...
1025On July - 17 boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies 1054Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king on July - 17. 1070On this day in history arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders 1070Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies on July - 1...
(proslavery) Whigs emerged. In 1848 the party returned to its winning formula by running a military hero—this time Zachary Taylor—for president. But theCompromise of 1850, fashioned by Henry Clay and signed into law byMillard Fillmore(who succeeded to the presidency on Taylor’s death in ...
Among those legislators responsible for introducing the amendment’s provisions were Rep. John A. Bingham ofOhio, Sen. Jacob Howard ofMichigan, Rep. Henry Deming ofConnecticut, Sen. Benjamin G. Brown ofMissouri, and Rep.Thaddeus StevensofPennsylvania. The Congressional Joint Resolution proposing the...
of the Third Crusade. Frederick I’s ill-fated journey to the Levant Frederick IFrederick I (Frederick Barbarossa) as a Crusader, with (right) Henry of Schaftlarn dedicating to him a copy of theHistory of the First Crusadeby Robert of St. Remy; miniature from a manuscript in the Vatican...
William was both James’s nephew and his son-in-law, and, until the birth of James’s son, William’s wife, Mary, was heir apparent. William’s chief concern was to check the overgrowth of French power in Europe. Between 1679 and 1684, England’s impotence and the emperor Leopold I’...
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace is standing second from right.(more) Before 1935 the New Deal focused on revitalizing the country’s stricken business and agricultural communities. To revive industrial activity, the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was granted authority to help shape ...
(Read Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Britannica essay on “Monuments of Hope.”) Abolitionism to Jim Crow Declaration of IndependenceImage of the Declaration of Independence (1776) taken from an engraving made by printer William J. Stone in 1823.(more) American history has been marked by persistent...
The petition sought recognition of four principles: no taxation without the consent of Parliament, no imprisonment without cause, no quartering of soldiers on subjects, and no martial law in peacetime. See also petition of right. The Petition of Right was drawn up by Charles’s third Parliament...