Yet maps can do more for the history teacher than simply illustrating what happened where or what territory was acquired when. Maps also provide clues about how the people of the past understood their world. How did early European explorers perceive the land to which they sailed? What did ...
Collection of famous and memorable historical events happened around the world in the year 1689, nicely categorized month wise and many more.
In American history today’s grandparents used to grow up in a period of angry rebelling against their parents’ authority. As time goes by and they ease into the role of ___51___ family members they may wonder: What happened to the generation gap? Is it gone or just in the ___52...
4 thoughts on “American Revolutionary War History: What Happened to the Original North Bridge?” Bob Smith on April 22, 2014 at 2:22 pm said: Joel Bohy, My name is Bob Smith. My mother, Grace Smith, was a teacher at Ripley School. During the time of the Bicentenial, she...
Discover what happened on March 14 with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
Got A Tip? Log In Music The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed With four dead and a mess at Altamont, Rolling Stone tries to get to the bottom of what really happened at the festival.By Rolling Stone January 21, 1970 ...
In one of his “Federalist” essays urging New Yorkers to support the newly drafted Constitution, Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the “weakest” part of the government and wrote that it “will always be the least dangerous to the political right
“But it happened that I personally knew a half-dozen motorcycle cops, having grown up with them since I was 12 years old. I talked to the two closest to me and I explained the situation.” The two policemen agreed to Stefano’s plan – sort of. ...
Whatever Happened to the American Stock Exchange? The American Stock Exchange, known as AMEX, was acquired by NYSE Euronext in a merger that was completed in early 2009.12It is now known as NYSE American and remains a marketplace for the trading of index options and the shares of small and...
In 1967, when Friedman presented his prediction of stagflation in a presidential address to the American Economic Association, he was challenging prevailing economic theories based on thePhillips curve, an economic model that demonstrated an historical correlation between unemployment and inflation that Keyn...