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...vault also contained several sharp images of both Widener and Gore Hall, the University's library in the nineteenth century, which one conservator said may prove useful during the renovations...
...ELTIS: Until late in the nineteenth century Africans, aided by epidemiology, had the power to keep Europeans from colonizing their territory. Sugar, even in the Caribbean, was grown in micro-climates and these micro-climates existed in West Africa (eg, Sao Tome). Europeans attempted to establish plantations in Africa in the late seventeenth century. They did not have the political and military control to do so and were forced to treat with Africans as equals. The plantations were established in the Americas instead, and the expensive transatlantic slave was necessary to bring them labor. In this sense the slave trade...
...remain there in decorous silence until November. No, critics will say: That would only make things worse. The campaign would be taken over by gaudily negative advertising and spinmeister surrogates far more vicious and irresponsible than the actual candidates. This is where New Age politics joins hands with nineteenth century precedent. I propose that the candidates get out of their rocking chairs one night a week and participate in a kind of post-Clinton presidential Olympics, an event that might, in the TV listings, be called "Who Wants to Be a President." The game would consist of a series...
...Harvard, Hobbs concentrated in American History, writing his honor's thesis on the nineteenth century political cartoonist Thomas Nast. But, he says, his favorite activity while at Harvard was hanging out in the Winthrop House dining hall...
occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine will try to end its drought against the undefeated Crimson softball squad this Sunday, when the two teams continue a series that began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century...