Century Watch: Peter Minuit Purchases Manhattan Island
Century Watch This Year in History: 1626 By James Goode When most of us think of New York City, we...
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This Year in History: 1825
When we think of great artists from the past, we usually don’t associate them with political movements. But this misses something key about politics: someone always has to be telling the story. And prior to the invention of a camera, you needed an artist for that.
The Scottish Father of the Modern Fire Service
When Classical Education Meets the Trades In 1824, the world’s First municipal fire fighting...
Legends of America: Hugh Glass – The Man Who Would Not Die
Read Part 1: Legends of America: Ashley’s 100 Century Watch This Year in History: A.D. 1823 ...
Legends of America: Ashley’s 100
Read Part 2: Legends of America: Hugh Glass – The Man Who Would Not Die Century Watch This Year in...
The Book of the Icelanders
A.D. 1122
Image: Iceland by Jonny Auh on Unsplash Century Watch This Year in History – A.D. 1122 The...
The Ghost Legion of Rome and the Wall of Hadrian
This year in history In A.D. 122, the Roman Emperor Hadrian landed in Britain and headed directly...
Franz Schubert: The Last Classical Composer and his Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”
THIS YEAR IN HISTORY: 1822 Franz Schubert (composer of “Ave, Maria”) is often seen as a Romantic...
THIS YEAR IN HISTORY: 1821
James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy, written in 1821, was the first American novel to become a...
1621: As If They Were Wiser Than God
THIS YEAR IN HISTORY The Pilgrims needed two things to immigrate to America: funding and a charter...
Here I Stand: 1521
This Year in History Martin Luther, German monk and reformer, is excommunicated by Pope Leo X and...
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an early American author and poet, known for Paul Revere’s...
