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...How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slum...

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...ild von Robert Surcouf als semihistorische Erzählung für die Publikation: Deutscher Hausschatz in Wort und Bild. 8. Jg. 1881/82. Heft 18. Regensburg, New York, Cincinnati (1882). Nr. 50, S. 795. (Summary by Wikipedia, Zeno & Wassermann)....

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...The history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. It begins with Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan in 1609. And it finishes in 1898 when the island of Manhattan becomes the Borough of Manhattan of Greater New York. (Summary...

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...An in-depth view and early history of the Mohawk Valley in upper New York state, covering the time period of 1609-1780. This historical piece covers that part of the Mohawk Valley between Schenectady and Rome, NY. The narrator hopes that the listener understands that a best effort has been...

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...A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New York Tribune in 1868. This piece, which is an early statement of Twain's opposition to imperialism and which conveys his vision of how the U.S. ought to behave on the global stage, has not been reprinted since its origina...

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...lack Republican in the fort and the mobs wanted to tar and feather him. Doubleday walks us through a day-by-day account of the final weeks before the new Confederacy opened fire on Ft. Sumter to begin the Civil War. Our busy man sighted the gun for the first shot fired by the Union in response. And we learn what it is like to be the target of thousands of cannonballs, unti...

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...o literature, art, philosophy, even science. Through experiments one brings new literary, artistic, philosophical or scientific terms, new procedures... ...ntul meu! În 1997, pe 25 noiembrie, am ţinut o comunicare la Universitatea New Mexico, Gallup, SUA, clasa de compozi ţie literar ă a profesorului ... ...blicat ă în “A Writers’s Choice”, USA, http:/members.spree.com/writer/htm3/new-man.htm, 1998; republicat ă sub titlul MetaHistory, Editura Abaddaba,... ... Dan Costescu, “De vorb ă cu ascult ătorii”, în “Lumea Liber ă”, Rego Park, New York, SUA, Anul I, nr. 19, 11 februarie 1989. 34. Dan Costescu, “Aut... ...Costescu, “De vorb ă cu ascult ătorii”, în “Lumea Liber ă”, Rego Park, New York, SUA, Anul I, nr. 19, 11 februarie 1989. 34. Dan Costescu, “Autograf... ...stescu, “Autograf / Florentin Smarandache”, în “Lumea Liber ă”, Rego Park, New York, SUA, Anul I, nr. 31, 6 mai 1989, p. 23. 35. Claude Le Roy, “Rou... ...cu, “Autograf / Florentin Smarandache”, în “Lumea Liber ă”, Rego Park, New York, SUA, Anul I, nr. 31, 6 mai 1989, p. 23. 35. Claude Le Roy, “Roumani... ...36. Liviu Floda, “Recenzie”, în “Micro Magazin”, Edi ţia I-a, mai 1989, New York, SUA, p. 29, 37. Jacqueline Thevoz, “<Antichambres, antipoesies, b... ...ld Dictionary of American English”, Third College Èdition, Cleveland & New York, 1988. [6 ] Popa, Constantin M., Mi şcarea literar ă paradoxist ă (T...

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... se embarca para Panamá, atraviesa el istmo y luego sigue en vapor para Nueva York. La política exterior argentina durante la presidencia de Mitre s... ...er, la India, la Arabia y el África del Mediterráneo a París, Londres y Nueva York. Es preciso que el lector no olvide que el mundo civilizado se e... ...p. cit, p. 8. 17 Allison Williams Bunkley, The life of Sarmiento, Princeton, New Jersey, 1952, p. 149, existe una traducción al castellano de Luis ... ... Buenos Aires, 1963, pp. 196-197. 19 Ambas Américas, N° 1, Haillet & Brenn, New York, 1867, edición facsímil, Asociación de Difusión Interamerican... ...nos Aires, 1963, pp. 196-197. 19 Ambas Américas, N° 1, Haillet & Brenn, New York, 1867, edición facsímil, Asociación de Difusión Interamericana, B... ...p. 112. Nota de Sarmiento al presidente de la Sociedad Rural Argentina, Nueva York, 22 de noviembre de 1866; ver J. A. Craviotto, op. cit, p. 197. ... ...ón del lugar de asentamiento, y en 1854, la Welsh Emígration Society de Nueva York entabló relaciones con el gobierno argentino para considerar la p... ...e development of the Argentine armed forces; 1870-1902, (Ph.D. dissertation), New York University, 1989, pp. 54- 55; ver A. Cisneros. C. Escudé et al...

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... Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The meeting was to be held in New York City in October. Representatives from nine colonies met in New York. Though New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia did not send delegates, the Assemblies of those missing colonies nonetheless agreed to s...

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...es the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Peak in the Andes of Peru. There is nothing new under the sun, they say. That is only relatively true. Just now, when we thought there was practically no portion of the earth's surface still unknown, when the discovery of a single lake or mountain, or the charting of a...

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...erd in het tijdschrift De Aarde en haar volken. We gaan samen met de anonieme, Europese schrijver in Frankrijk aan boord van een schip met bestemming New-York. Daar aangekomen, reizen we direct door naar Montreal. In deze Oost-Canadese stad begint een lange tocht per trein - helemaal naar de Canadese west-kust - via de nog maar enkele jaren daarvoor aangelegde Canada-Pacif...

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...Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For many years he worked as a steam boatman and as a conductor for the Underground Railroad in Buffalo, New York. In 1843, he became a lecturer for the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, and was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass. Brown went to Europe in 1849 to encourage British support for the anti-slavery movement in t...

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...e preface to “The Breath of Life” both by John Burroughs, “The Wentworth Letter” by Joseph Smith, and “The Rhythm of Life” by Alice Meynell. From the New York Times, April 10, 1817 is an account of the Canadian capture of Vimy Ridge, “Haig Strikes Near Arras” and from the September 1921 issue of Vanity Fair an article on “The Flapper - A New Type.” And for the those with m...

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.... Their greed leads to distrust and dishonesty, and eventually the society crumbles. In The Law of Civilisation and Decay (1895), Adams noted that as new population centers emerged in the west, centers of world trade shifted from Constantinople to Venice to Amsterdam to London. He predicted in America’s Economic Supremacy (1900) that New York would become the centre for wo...

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...eisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the nobility of republics. Most of these chapters were published originally in The Ledger of New York, and a few of them in The Youths' Companion of Boston, the largest two circulations in the country. I have occasionally had reason to think that they were of some service to young readers, and I may add that they rep...

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...The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life and included such prominent women as Mary Parker, Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Lydia Maria Child. One outcome of this important event...

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...advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788 . A compilation of these and eight others, called The Federalist, was published in 1788 by J. and A. M’Lean. The Federalist Papers serve as a primary source for interpretat...

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...The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York State, and her eventual escape to Freedom. Since Sojourner could neither read or write, she dictated her story to Olive Gilbert after they met at a Women’s Rights rally. The Narrative was first published in 1850, and...

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...to frontier garrisons in what are now the states of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, Montana, and Wyoming. Her letters home to her family in upstate New York, written between 1871 and 1888, and published in book form in 1909, are a fascinating chronicle of life on the frontier. Despite the grittiness of keeping house in tent-and-log-cabin quarters, Frances took to Western...

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...his own map-making and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position via sun-based survey. Upon his return to New York, friends and family were startled by Roosevelt's physical appearance and fatigue. Roosevelt wrote to a friend that the trip had cut his life short by ten years. He might not have really known just how accurate that a...

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... Chapter 3: Explorations in Queensland 22 Chapter 4: The Wreck of the Firefly 38 Chapter 5: Sharks and Mutiny 51 Chapter 6: Around Cape York to the Gulf 60 Chapter 7: The Wait for Walker to Arrive 69 Chapter 8: The First Expedition to Mt Stuart 78 Chapter 9: Back at the Gulf 92 Chapter 10: The Second Expedition Commences 100 Chapter ...