This week marks the 140th anniversary of Zionism’s first significant international conference, held in today’s Katowice, ...
In 1857 he was elected to Parliament as an independent Radical MP for Glasgow, in what was described as the "bitter fight of ...
South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.
In the early days of voting in America, bribery, drunken brawls and parades accompanied elections as a public holiday. All of ...
Women’s work – including quilts – were once relegated to the realm of crafts. But with museums and art galleries now looking ...
Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign places him among this select group of political figures. Grover Cleveland remains ... he ...
Having gained experience in drawing political caricatures in the 1870s ... of the Victorian and Edwardian scene’. [5] The portraits in NPG 3337–3535, 3554–3620 were largely created between 1880 and ...
A portrait of George Washington ... Paul Weekly Minnesotan reported. Before 1880, accusations of voter fraud and buying voters filled nearly every political campaign published in newspapers.
She traveled to political and social-issue conventions ... The issue was finally settled in 1880, when the Fosters paid the back taxes." Abby Kelley Foster died on Jan. 14, 1887.
Takaki explained that his ancestors migrated from Japan in the 1880s and that he had never ... roughly 500 pages delineating Walt Whitman’s portrait of America: “A teeming nation of nations ...
Robert Smalls escaped slavery by stealing a slaveowner’s ship and later became a South Carolina political leader ... Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 ...