Born in 1889 to former slaves, Webster was part of the first free generation of African Americans in the U.S. She earned an ...

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Photo of the Leo Frank lynching. A sizeable number of Europeans and Americans by this time had already come to believe that Jewish leaders admitted to nefarious sexual intrigues against the Christian ...

The history of wallpaper is not simply a history of ornamental patterns and designs. It is also a fascinating record of technological ingenuity and changes in patterns of consumption and domestic ...

That figure equals 20 per cent of the men and 15 per cent of the women born at the end of the 1800s. The peak year of the great emigration was 1887, when more than 50,000 people left Sweden. Ever ...