"In 1872 the Reverend J. S. Brewer, classical scholar and editor of the great series of Letters and Papers of the reign of King Henry VIII, completed his…"
An essay from Ebling Library's History of Health Sciences Librarian on the process an benefits of using Public Health in Modern America, part of Gale Primary Sources
"The Confederate States of America came into existence on 4 February 1861, when delegates from the six Deep South states that had departed…"
"The far right is best understood as a spectrum of groups and individuals who are often at odds with one another but hold in common some combination…"
The summoning of the two parliaments which met in 1640 was perceived by contemporaries as marking an end to the long period of personal rule by Charles I, but in institutional and archival terms, it was the year 1642 that marked the start of a unique phase in the history of English government.
"During the first seventy-five years of the eighteenth century Britain emerged as the paramount world naval power. The ground work had been…"
"The history of British-Ottoman relations between 1713 and 1779 is therefore one of commerce and diplomacy intertwined, with foreign policy aims…"
Stuart government in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth century rested upon a number of constitutional pillars re-established at the Restoration in 1660. They came under some strain in 1688, and in the 1690s, but essentially survived in the same form into the eighteenth-century.
For the whole of its publishing history, Punch was consistently fascinated with developments in flight and.... Punch's first significant engagement with aeronautics occurs in 1843 (two years after the magazine's founding), in response to William Henson's proposed Aerial Steam Carriage.
An essay on the Daily Mail, which explicitly addressed women from its very first issue on 4 May 1896.
During the nineteenth century, fire was perhaps the most severe environmental threat faced by Americans, especially in urban areas. Before the Civil War, hundreds of large fires destroyed property worth over 200 million dollars in the nation’s principal cities.
To any seasoned historian, the seventeen journals presented in digitised form by Gale, a Cengage Company embody a long-cherished dream come true. The digital collection represents the near-totality of journals produced in the English medium in China between 1817 and 1949, not counting ephemeral publications or daily newspapers.
"Throughout the nineteenth century, periodicals published both in Britain and in the colonies featured aspects of the imperial experience. Before the 1850…"
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