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23 de may. de 2024 · Frederick Douglass (born February 1818, Talbot county, Maryland, U.S.—died February 20, 1895, Washington, D.C.) was an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.
- Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927, Dallas, Texas—died...
- Benjamin Lundy
Benjamin Lundy was an American publisher and leading...
- Henry Highland Garnet
Henry Highland Garnet (born 1815, New Market (now...
- Henry Adams
Henry Adams (born February 16, 1838, Boston—died March 27,...
- Samantha Power
Samantha Power, American journalist, human rights scholar,...
- IDA B. Wells
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (born July 16, 1862, Holly Springs,...
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States...
- Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (born August 20, 1833, North Bend, Ohio,...
- Ramsey Clark
21 de may. de 2024 · The war originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which began in February 1895. The Cuban conflict was injurious to U.S. investments in the island, which were estimated at $50 million, and almost ended U.S. trade with Cuban ports, normally valued at $100 million annually.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 1 día · The history of the United States from 1865 to 1917 was marked by the Reconstruction era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States . This period of rapid economic growth and soaring prosperity in the Northern United States and the Western ...
28 de may. de 2024 · With his first novel, The Time Machine (1895), which was immediately successful, he began a series of science fiction novels that revealed him as a writer of marked originality and an immense fecundity of ideas: The Wonderful Visit (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The ...
- At age 18, H.G. Wells won a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied under T.H. Huxley. He graduate...
- H.G. Wells was a versatile author. The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, his early publications, were science fiction novels that remain clas...
- H.G. Wells was an optimist of a type characteristic of his generation, which was breaking free from Victorian norms. He believed in the doctrine of...
Hace 3 días · 1895: Taiwan is ceded to the Empire of Japan as a result of the First Sino-Japanese War. 1895–1896: Ethiopia defeats Italy in the First Italo–Ethiopian War at the Battle of Adwa. 1895–1898: Cuban War for Independence results in Cuban independence from Spain. 1896–1898: Philippine Revolution results in a Filipino victory.
Hace 6 días · The Second Industrial Revolution (from 1865 to 1900) was another watershed era that redefined not only the American way of life but also life around the world. Inventions that relied on newly harnessed means and putting electricity, steel, and petroleum to use spurred the growth of railways and steamships and transformed everything ...
Hace 3 días · Social and Cultural Life. Gloucester's development as a commercial and manufacturing centre in the mid and late 19th century and the growth of a large working-class population had a distinct influence on its social and cultural life.
