Today's installment concludes The Coup D'etat of Louis Napoleon,our selection from Memoir, Letters, and Remains by Alexis De Tocqueville published
Archives for January 2018
My Seven Biggest Decades Course, Session 3
To 1905TopicsIndustrial Revolution J. Pierpont Morgan - Finance John D. Rockefeller - Oil Andrew Carnegie - Steel Thomas
The Coup D’etat of Louis Napoleon
This series has just two easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Arrest of the National Assembly.IntroductionHistory has
Depraved Behavior of the Survivors
Today's installment concludes The Great London Plague,our selection from History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe.If you have journeyed
Mass Graves for the Dead
It was about September 10th that my curiosity led or rather drove me to go and see this pit again, when there had been about four hundred people
Watchmen Guard Quarantined Houses
A terrible pit it was, and I could not resist the curiosity to go and see it.Continuing The Great London Plague,our selection from History of the
Escapes of the Quarantined
Many such escapes were made out of infected houses, as particularly when the watchman was sent some errand, that is to say, for necessaries, such as
Cruel Quarantines of the Houses of the Sick
As I went along Houndsditch one morning, about eight o'clock, there was a great noise.Continuing The Great London Plague,our selection from
My Seven Biggest Decades Course, Session 2
The 1880’sTopicsLiberals Win Election of 1880Lord Randolph and the Fourth PartyParnell and the Irish PartyCore Beliefs of Liberals and