Today is New Years Eve.As 2019 Recedes Into HistoryLet’s do a quick retrospective of it.by Jack Le Moine The top story of 2019
Archives for 2019
Enormous Growth of Cotton in America
This series has nine easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Importance of the Cotton Trade.IntroductionLord Macaulay declared that
Feudal Society in England
Today's installment concludes Domesday Book Completed,our selection from Popular History of England by Charles Knight published in 1860.If you
Castle-Building in England
"We command that all earls, barons, knights, sergeants . . . be always ready to perform to us their whole service, in manner as they owe it to us . .
Daily Life in Norman England
The Domesday Book affords us many curious glimpses of the condition of the people in cities and burghs.Continuing Domesday Book Completed,our
Norman Tyranny in England
The extreme severity of the Forest Laws was chiefly enforced to prevent the assemblage of Saxons in those vast wooded spaces.Continuing Domesday
Christmas, 2019
Today is Christmas when we celebrate the joy of Christ's birth.by Jack Le MoineMy favorite gifts for Christmas are computer games. For some
Parkman Vol. 4, Chapter 7
Many years before, the company had ceded its monopoly of the fur trade to the inhabitants of the colony.Previously in The Old Regime In
Domesday Book Completed
This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The Classes of Feudal England.IntroductionWhen William the Conqueror