Slavery Abolition

Skip to comments. The Party of Lincoln Is Uniting as Pelosis House Is DividingTownhall.com ^ | December 21, 2019 | John Pence Posted on 12/21/2019 3:59:58 AM PST by Kaslin Invoking Scripture to make his case for the abolition of slavery, Abraham Lincol…

Keeping up with the Innovators This month, Brian Foo and Ben Lee came back to the Library to gather feedback from staff in the early stages of their project and to showcase working prototypes. Brian presented his project Citizen DJ, a music production and s…

I used to be a literacy helper at a local primary school. Every Tuesday Id wedge myself into a small plastic chair and listen to young children as they read aloud. But sharing a book was only part of the job. Other responsibilities included wiping noses and a…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, lots of political events over the weekend, but my connection was tooth-grindingly slow, and so I’ll have a bit more shortly. –lambert Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflect…

by Adam H. DombyOn Friday, Haley declared the Confederate flag was “hijacked” by the racism of a single white supremacist terrorist in 2015, and that before then, “people saw it as service, sacrifice and heritage.”

When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts colossi that the university had constr…

When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts colossi that the university had constr…

Traders, throughout history, have sought new markets and been natural globalisers. Traders, producers and consumers, all parties gained from trade. Spices from India were so valuable in Europe that the voyage of Christopher Columbus to find a shorter sea rout…

Several countries are boycotting the Nobel ceremony to protest the Academys choice to award the literature prize to Peter Handke. The Austrian author has been criticised for his stance on the wars in former Yugoslavia and on late Serbian leader Slobodan Milo…

In The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War, Joanne Freeman examines the increase of violence in the US Congress experienced from the 1830s to 1861 in the build-up to the US Civil War, a period that witnessed the rise of the mass…