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The Irish played a huge role in the American Revolution, not just on the battlefield but also in the field hospitals and in the framing of the Declaration of Independence. Niall O'Dowd, author of Lincoln and the Irish and A New Ireland, takes listeners on a journey into the unexplored contributions of the Irish in the American Revolution and behind the scenes of the relationships of some of those men and women with the first president of the United States.

Yorktown was a former tobacco trading post now in decline, not much bigger than a large village. But Yorktown was tucked away on the northern edge of the York peninsula in rural Virginia, and in 1781 it became the site of a brief siege between two small armies, fought with all the decorum and formality of 18th century European warfare. About 5,000 British and Germans faced perhaps 18,000 Americans and French. After only three weeks the smaller garrison surrendered, tired and low on ammunition.

India Was One – An Unforgettable Journey of Love, Identity, and Belonging Jai stood still, the wind tugging at his clothes as he stared into the seemingly endless abyss before him. The ground beneath his feet was dry and cracked, symbolic of the emotional chasm that had opened in his heart. Suddenly, something shiny caught his eye at the bottom of the gorge. He squinted, trying to make sense of it, then rushed back to his binoculars. As he adjusted the lens, the glint became clearer—barbed wire, coiled and menacing, stretched tightly across the expanse, separating the two mountains. It ...

Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has, to his own and everyone else's surprise, become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd and his family, most notably his vivacious daughter, Martha, observe at first-hand the many changes - some subtle, some disturbing, and some horrifically violent - that signal Hitler's consolidation of power. Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party.

This is volume 3 of 27 in The American Nation: A History, edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University. This volume begins with the detailed narrative of the founding and development of the communities now included within the United States of America, and the story necessarily goes back to the discovery of the American islands and continents. Professor Bourne in his earlier chapters summarizes and restates, with many original conclusions, the controverted points with regard to the discovery of America.

Considered by some to be far too old for one attempting to rejuvenate the career of a soldier, Baron Johann von de Kalb was a keen student of war with a steady mind and hand. Once able to prove his worth to the Continental Congress, he rose immediately to the rank of brigadier general under George Washington, served with distinction, and died heroically in the Battle of Camden, a battle in the South that foretold the eventual surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.

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La colonizzazione europea delle Americhe nel secolo XVII fu quel fenomeno storico che portò all'esplorazione, la conquista e l'occupazione del continente americano da parte di diversi stati d'Europa, tra i quali l'Inghilterra, la Francia, la Spagna, l'Olanda e il Portogallo. L'obiettivo principale era quello della conquista di nuovi territori, l'insediamento permanente di popolazioni europee, aprire nuovi mercati e civilizzare secondo le fedi cristiane le popolazioni native del nuovo continente scoperto da poco più di un secolo (1492).

This book examines how the development of the European social welfare state in the post-World War II period has proposed a threat to the American economic and social system.

A SonicReenactment of the reading of Christopher Columbus' famous letter to the king and queen of Spain. The letter outlines a plan of colonization for the "New World", the removal and transport of its gold to Spain, and the establishment of the Catholic church as an integral part of everyday life within the New World territories.

In Hitler's Generals in America, Derek R. Mallett examines the evolution of the relationship between American officials and the Wehrmacht general officers they held as prisoners of war in the United States between 1943 and 1946.

Our region is experiencing a momentous transition. The US-led order is fading, and China has become ever more powerful. Today the question we face is not whether we fancy living in an Asia in which power is shared between the United States and China. It is how we feel about living in an Asia in which America no longer plays any significant strategic role. In this controversial and gripping essay, Hugh White looks at what has happened to the US globally.

Among America's countless monuments and landmarks, none embodies the principles of the nation quite like Lady Liberty, the colossal statue that stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. A gift from the French that was built and transported in the late 19th century, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of the United States' guarantee of individual freedom.

Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France that was then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba.

"Demonstrar a influência que tem a educação das mulheres sobre a moralidade e a civilização dos seus povos": eis o desejo subjacente de Nísia Floresta nestes trechos selecionados do seu livro "Opúsculo humanitário". Ela destaca aqui os privilégios reais e o respeito à mulher na Alemanha, a liberdade e os direitos próprios da mulher na Grã-Bretanha, o espírito forte da mulher na França e a preferência da mulher dos Estados Unidos pela verdade e pelo útil.

Il Seicento è definito dagli storici "il Secolo di ferro", perché secolo delle grandi guerre fra le Corone (come la sanguinosa e lunga Guerra dei Trent'anni), dei contrasti sociali, delle rivolte contadine e delle rivoluzioni (come quella di Cromwell), delle carestie, delle pestilenze, ma anche delle colonizzazioni delle Americhe da parte delle potenze marittime europee (Inghilterra, Spagna, Francia, Portogallo). È dunque un secolo caratterizzato da aspri conflitti (si pensi alla continuazione delle guerre di religione fra cattolici e protestanti) e numerose trasformazioni.

You can't copyright facts, but is news a category unto itself? Without legal protection for the "ownership" of news, what incentive does a news organization have to invest in producing quality journalism that serves the public good? This book explores the intertwined histories of journalism and copyright law in the United States and Great Britain, revealing how shifts in technology, government policy, and publishing strategy have shaped the media landscape.

Published in 1791, Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man defended the French Revolution’s values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood. He argued that a government based on justice ought to support mankind’s civil rights relating to security and protection, as well as the natural rights to life, liberty, and freedom of conscience. He also proposed plans for universal education, pensions, poverty relief, and social welfare in this classic work that was widely read across the West.

In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today’s National Clandestine Service), flush with money and burning with determination to roll back the Iron Curtain, embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency. They hatched an elaborate plan, coordinated with the British Secret Intelligence Service, to foment popular rebellion and detach Albania, the weakest of the Soviet satellites in Europe, from Moscow’s orbit. The operation resulted in dismal failure and was shut down by 1954.