Who invented the first language? Who discovered the Rosetta Stone? Who created the shoen system? Who invented the first library? Who invented calculus? Who invented the first subway train? Who invented the timeline? Who founded the first settlement house?
Who invented the first book in the world? Who founded the first settlement house? Who owned West Africa in the Scramble for Africa? Who created the first settlement in Greenland? Who was the first king ever in the world? Who started imperialism in Africa?
Henry Street Settlement—The House on Henry Streetpermanent exhibition at 265 Henry Street FURTHER LISTENING: The History Chicks Podcast(Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider) recorded two shows on the life of Jane Addams for more information on the settlement house movement: In...
In October 2022, it all went downhill for "Ye," the moniker the fallen rapper goes by these days. That month, Ye had held a private show during Paris fashion week where he wore a "White Lives Matter" shirt, a slogan many saw as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement....
Enron, founded in 1986 after a merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, became a powerhouse in the energy industry. Underchief executive officer(CEO) Kenneth Lay, it expanded into energy trading and utilities. In 1990, Lay appointed Jeffrey Skilling, who had worked at McKinsey & Compa...
Until Macy’s cut ties with the brand last year, after the settlement with Cassie Ventura, Sean John was sold in nearly every branch of the department store in the nation. At its height, the line raked in $525 million in annual sales. Even as Sean John became a luxury st...
s where we want to be,” says Guillaume Broche, CEO of Sandfall Interactive and creative director of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Citing 2007’s Xbox 360 classic Lost Odyssey as the last truly high-budget turn-based RPG, the ex Ubisoft employee founded a studio with a mission to move ...
That question was the wrong one to ask. It took a nudge from Jorge Estevez, a self-described Taíno from New York City, to remind me that notions of racial purity went out the window with Adolf Hitler and the eugenics movement. “These concepts are really outdated,” said Estevez, who ...
(born January 13, 1953) was the Dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) from 2004 to 2013. He serves as President of the Opportunity Institute, an organization he co-founded with Hillary Clinton advisor Ann O'Leary. Edley has been a leading figure in ...
Who founded the Virginia colony? Who determined what land people received under Georgia's headright system? Who overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii? Who started the labor movement in the Bahamas? Who founded the first settlement house? Who led a slave revolt in Hispaniola?