Unlike implied by its name, the Underground Railroad did not involve trains that ran underground. It was actually a network of secret safe houses with rout
& 34;Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.& 34;-Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821.Daniel Ellsberg is a former U.S. Marine and military analyst who precipitated a constitutional crisis in 1971 when he released the & 34;Pentagon Papers.& 34; The papers comprised the U.S. military& 39;s account of theater activities during the Vietnam War.
The Edicts of Ashoka are 33 inscriptions engraved on pillars, large stones, and cave walls by Ashoka the Great (r. 268-232 BCE), the third king of the Mauryan Empire (322-185 BCE) of India. One set...
For over a thousand years until its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the city of Constantinople was one of the greatest urban centres in the Christian world.
Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, painting by the American artist Peter F. Rothermel (l. 1817-1895 CE), 1852 CE. The painting depicts the patriot Patrick Henry proclaiming,
