• and late-20th and early-21st century immigrants and refugees. (umn.edu)
  • A new Oral History Collections page highlights over 200 curator-selected interviews to connect scholars and enthusiasts with firsthand accounts of the work and lives of some of the most influential people in the art world of the 20th and 21st centuries. (getty.edu)
  • Mark Cornwall is the leading UK historian of the late Habsburg Empire, and a key authority on the history of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th century. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • With a focus on a discrete period, primarily the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and a discrete geography - Saint Louis, Senegal, south along the West African coast to Freetown, Sierre Leone - Slaves for Peanuts weaves a complex story crossing time and oceans. (kpbs.org)
  • citation needed] The early 1980s witnessed a backlash against the brightly colored disco fashions of the late 1970s in favor of a minimalist approach to fashion, with less emphasis on accessories. (wikipedia.org)
  • Continuing a trend begun during the late 1970s, cropped pants and revivals of 1950s and early '60s styles like pedal-pushers and Capri pants were popular. (wikipedia.org)
  • Late 19th- and early 20th-century sheet maps of Asian (or partly Asian) cities that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. (uchicago.edu)
  • But people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries certainly were. (consumeraffairs.com)
  • It famously killed many workers constructing the Panama Canal in the early 20th century. (consumeraffairs.com)
  • 2016-05-07T20:59:48-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvNDMzXC8yMDE2MDUwNzIxMDIwNjAwM19oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Professor Nancy Unger talked about women's rights activist Belle La Follette, who was politically active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (c-span.org)
  • Iowa State University professor Tracy Lucht talked about women journalists in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. (c-span.org)
  • The late 19th century and early 20th centuries saw the largest migrations of people in world history. (nps.gov)
  • The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a worldwide postcard craze. (arcadiapublishing.com)
  • The community flourished during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (jewishmag.com)
  • He was born in Morocco in the early sixteenth century and at some point, came to Spain and was enslaved by Andres Dorantes de Carranza, with whom he later traveled as a member of the Panfilo de Narvaez expedition, which landed in the Americas in 1528. (thestoryoftexas.com)
  • Rooks, the associate director of Princeton's Program in African-American Studies, has turned her findings of obscure but influential magazines from the late 1800s and early 1900s into a new book, "Ladies' Pages: African-American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them. (princeton.edu)
  • Her research interests include the study of class and gender in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (princeton.edu)
  • While working on "Hair Raising," Rooks had conducted extensive research on Madam C.J. Walker, an early 20th-century entrepreneur who became the nation's first African-American millionaire by inventing products that revolutionized hair care for black women. (princeton.edu)
  • During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, scores of Italians emigrated to the United States where labor was in high demand. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Topped by a 62m-high tower, the Gothic St-Gangolf-Kirche was built in the early 15th century on the site of a 14th-century tower. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • The polio virus was the most feared disease of the 20th century, and ravished the United Stated during the late 1940s through early 1950s-crippling nearly 35,000 people in the U.S. each year. (cdc.gov)
  • Early research focused focuses on vitamin deficiency diseases while later workers proposed daily requirements for protein, fat and carbohy- drates. (who.int)
  • The early history of infectious diseases was characterized by sudden, unpredictable outbreaks, frequently of epidemic proportion. (cdc.gov)
  • Scientific advances in the late 19th and early 20th centuries resulted in the prevention and control of many infectious diseases, particularly in industrialized nations. (cdc.gov)
  • Other known early prosthetics include artificial feet from Switzerland and Germany, crafted between the 5th and 8th centuries. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The advent of electronics in the early 20th century allowed for reproducible presentation of a sound stimulus. (cdc.gov)
  • Built in 1533, it maintains its 16th century Plateresque portal, and the interior of the church has a crucifix that dates from the 18th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Alito cited some of the cases listed in Dellapenna's book in his opinion and also quoted famed 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone who "explained that abortion of a 'quick' child was 'by the ancient law homicide or manslaughter'" and "at least 'a very heinous misdemeanor. (ncregister.com)
  • Alito wrote that "English cases dating all the way back to the 13th century corroborate the treatises' statements that abortion was a crime" and noted that "manuals for justices of the peace printed in colonies in the 18th century typically restated the common law rule on abortion. (ncregister.com)
  • This naming pattern was most prevalent from around the late 18th century to the middle of the 20th. (irishcentral.com)
  • In the Middle Ages, and even than with medication, "Wherefore one through the 18th century, hospital diet was ought to control all such diseases, so far as based on bread. (who.int)
  • People of African descent were part of the population that settled Texas in the 17th and 18th centuries. (thestoryoftexas.com)
  • The exhibition includes first state pulls from the artist's lifetime and restrike prints from the 17th to 20th centuries. (uwm.edu)
  • In the latter part of the 19th century, the study of education along Herbartian lines became established in every European country, in America, and in Japan. (britannica.com)
  • Our newspapers and serials are largely those published by immigrants after arriving in North America, and date mostly from the 20th century. (umn.edu)
  • Postpartum depression and the construction of motherhood in late 20th-century America. (bvsalud.org)
  • But, today, it is a regular part of the research practice of curators, conservators, and art historians to conduct oral histories with living artists to talk with them about their aims, ideas, and methods for making art. (getty.edu)
  • The archives of the Getty Research Institute (GRI) contain over a thousand such oral histories and interviews with artists, architects, curators, critics, collectors, and dealers. (getty.edu)
  • The Research Institute's full collection of oral histories is available to researchers at the GRI Library . (getty.edu)
  • And many of the available epic poems or oral histories that have been passed from generation to generation often tell stories of society's elites - the kings, nobles, warriors, and important religious leaders. (kpbs.org)
  • Made by a German artist in the mid-16th century, it is believed to have been created for a bishop. (chicagotribune.com)
  • khan, or chief, who terrorized China during the 16th century. (britannica.com)
  • And in the 16th century, the French surgeon Ambroise Paré designed some of the first purely functional prosthetics for soldiers coming off the battlefield. (medlineplus.gov)
  • From the late 15th century to the 19th century, France and Switzerland were making artificial limbs that could rotate and bend using cables, gears, cranks, and springs. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In the leaked Dobbs draft, Justice Samuel Alito comprehensively debunks Roe's contention that the 'right to abortion' is 'deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition. (ncregister.com)
  • More than half of Alito's 98-page draft opinion, in the pending Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, explores the history of U.S. abortion law in order to establish that the "right to abortion" is not "deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition" as it would have to be in order to be protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. (ncregister.com)
  • discharging raw sewage and pollution into our harbors and rivers has been common practice for most of the nation's history, with devastating results. (boingboing.net)
  • Over the past 30 years he has particularly specialized in modern Czech history, and in 2022 was awarded the Palacky Medal of Merit in the Historical Sciences by the Czech Aacademy of Sciences - the highest Czech award for a historian. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • New Zealand history will be taught in all schools and kura by 2022, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced today. (mch.govt.nz)
  • To peer into Christian history, from late Antiquity through to Romanesque, Gothic, baroque and the 19th and 20th centuries, head to the Domschatz. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • In its modern form it emerged in the 19th century, but has predecessors back to Antiquity. (lu.se)
  • Also of note, Magnum Photos features iconic photographs documenting the history and culture of the United States from the 1940s to the present. (jstor.org)
  • We are happy to announce four new doctoral student positions at the Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden, all funded by successful applications for external research grants. (lu.se)
  • The Division for Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University conducts research about older, modern and contemporary art, from historical, social and aesthetic angles of approach. (lu.se)
  • This course explores the history and culture of this seemingly contradictory civilization, from its origins as an Etruscan kingdom through the rise of the Republic and its transition into Empire. (beloit.edu)
  • This history is well-established in a doctoral dissertation this thesis is in direct dialogue with, Elizabeth Coles' Anne Carson: the Ethics and Erotics of Interpretation . (lu.se)
  • These interests are central to my doctoral research project, which is a new study of the making of The World at War televised documentary history series c. 1970-75. (lu.se)
  • Rembrandt, one of the most influential printmakers in the history of art, created etchings that offer a wide range of subjects - from incisive representations of scriptures to studies of street life. (uwm.edu)
  • One aspect of the new dynamic processes is the increasing interest in Africa's history and thus, African Economic History is a research field that has grown significantly in the last decade. (lu.se)
  • From being associated primarily with poverty and state failure in the late 20th century, it is since the turn of the millennium increasingly associated with dynamic economic processes. (lu.se)
  • The Immigration History Research Center Archives (IHRCA, or IHRC Archives) is an archives and library for the study of immigration, ethnicity, and race. (umn.edu)
  • We also work closely with our colleagues in the Immigration History Research Center in the College of Liberal Arts. (umn.edu)
  • Search our digital collections of images, maps, films and videos, audio tapes, rare volumes and publications, and select items from the Immigration History Research Center Archives. (umn.edu)
  • Explore the University of Minnesota Libraries catalog for information about rare and special books held by the Immigration History Research Center Archives. (umn.edu)
  • To allow scholars and the interested public better access to the firsthand accounts of these fascinating figures-and in keeping with the Getty's ongoing efforts to make more of its holdings accessible digitally-Research Institute staff is working to make our oral history collections available online. (getty.edu)
  • The selected audio interviews showcase the breadth of the oral history collections that researchers can access on-site at the GRI Research Library, while the selected videos feature artists, architects, and other individuals significant to Los Angeles's vibrant postwar art scene. (getty.edu)
  • It's really interesting to see this naming pattern in your own family tree, but it's especially valuable to know for family history research. (irishcentral.com)
  • Such topics reflect the current research interests of the faculty and meet the needs of history majors and non-majors. (beloit.edu)
  • Image taken from Recherche sur les Superstitions en Chine (Research on Chinese Superstitions) by Henri Dore, Shanghai, 1911-1920. (cdc.gov)
  • His research interests include systemic theology, South African church history and history theory. (lu.se)
  • His research focuses on Anglican mission history and African culture in Southern Africa in the late 19th and the 20th century. (lu.se)
  • I am interested in the use of media to research and present history to the public as well as debates about the future direction of society in the 20th century. (lu.se)
  • My academic research builds on my prior career background as a current-affairs journalist and best-selling author of history books for children who has worked extensively with schools, public education and outreach organisations, heritage bodies, and adult learning institutions, to collaboratively research and create projects with media resources including texts, film, living witnesses, architecture, authentic replica costumes and objects, technological and archaeological artefacts. (lu.se)
  • In Lund, as internationally, the growing link between Art History and Visual Studies has made the research less disciplinary isolated, while the awareness of the disciplinary identity has been strengthened. (lu.se)
  • A history of temporary threshold shift (TTS) research. (cdc.gov)
  • This research was later used to develop occupational and environmental noise limits. (cdc.gov)
  • Later studies indicated that TTS was not a good predictor of PTS, and the research fell out of favor. (cdc.gov)
  • According to Jonathan Kasparek, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, one of Wisconsin's distinct swing state periods was in the late 19th century. (wpr.org)
  • This course acquaints students with the different approaches to writing history by providing samples of the various ways in which historians (and non-historians) have treated problems in the past. (beloit.edu)
  • Emphasis on the relationship between literature and history and on Greek historians. (beloit.edu)
  • The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in human history. (iwm.org.uk)
  • If you meet a taxidermist anywhere in the world and say 'The Four Seasons,' they would know exactly what you're talking about," said the late Bill Stanley, a Field mammal expert. (chicagotribune.com)
  • He said that after questions arose about Means' historical account in Roe , he set out to recover the history of abortion in the common law world and found "abortion cases in the colonies going back to the 1640s in Maryland and later dates in other colonies. (ncregister.com)
  • The Voice," not just of Egypt, but of the entire Arab-speaking world, Om Kalsoum was one of the 20th century's most celebrated vocal artists. (si.edu)
  • The curriculum changes we are making will reset a national framework so all learners and ākonga are aware of key aspects of New Zealand history and how they have influenced and shaped the nation. (mch.govt.nz)
  • Aotearoa New Zealand in the late 20th century and evolution of a national identity with cultural plurality. (mch.govt.nz)
  • Chris Hipkins said it is important for learners and ākonga to understand New Zealand history as a continuous thread, with contemporary issues directly linked to major events of the past. (mch.govt.nz)
  • The Ministry of Education will work collaboratively to develop a New Zealand history update, Chris Hipkins said. (mch.govt.nz)
  • The Ministry will call on historical and curriculum experts, iwi and mana whenua, Pacific communities, students and ākonga, parents and whānau, and other groups with a strong interest in shaping how New Zealand history is taught. (mch.govt.nz)
  • The curriculum changes and NCEA change package will provide opportunities for New Zealand histories. (mch.govt.nz)
  • The museum's permanent collection includes over 120,000 works spanning the first century to the present day. (wikipedia.org)
  • Facing the bridge, this partly 14th-century-Gothic church has an ornate interior and some colourful stained glass. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • According to Katherine Ott, Ph.D., curator for the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, this is partly because different cultures have their own ideas about what makes a person whole. (medlineplus.gov)
  • By the late 1960s, Lake Erie had become so polluted that Time magazine described it as dead. (boingboing.net)
  • My project on technological time-keeping, popular Western media narratives, and apocalyptic environmental politics in the late 20th century will begin upon completion of my thesis. (lu.se)
  • Two years later, Janes moved his family west, but the community grew to become the Rock County seat, and by 1860 it was Wisconsin's second-largest city. (arcadiapublishing.com)
  • The museum's incorporation was confirmed by the Government of Ontario three years later by legislation, [6] in An Act respecting the Art Museum of Toronto in 1903. (wikipedia.org)
  • Approximately 300 years later-300 B.C.-in Italy, an ancient Roman nobleman used a prosthetic leg known as the "Capua leg. (medlineplus.gov)
  • We'll be discussing the history of HIV/AIDS, and what we've learned along the 40 years. (cdc.gov)
  • It was as we say, of course, HIV that really in subsequent years later in the mid-80s, later in the 80s, really pushed the agenda of improving, enhancing safety in healthcare settings and prevention of needlesticks--tremendous advances and much attention, much investment. (cdc.gov)
  • He is completing a book for Oxford University Press on the history of treason/traitors in the late Habsburg Empire (1848-1918), using case studies from Czech, Hungarian, Austrian and Croatian archives. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • On second reading, the vote was later taken by the House, 93 in favor and 27 opposed. (knowitall.org)
  • Professor Nancy Unger talked about the role of gay bars in American history. (c-span.org)
  • In his discussion of the history of abortion law, Alito cited Joseph Dellapenna, Villanova Law professor emeritus and author of Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History who filed an amicus brief in the case. (ncregister.com)
  • Before 'Ladies' Pages,' there wasn't much historiography that indicated that black women were discussing the issues of sexuality, self-presentation, child care and other important women's issues," said Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton's Edwards Professor of American History and a leading historian of the United States. (princeton.edu)
  • Growing more than four times as rapidly as the total US population since the turn of the century, the AA and NHPI community's numbers are expected to double again to nearly 36 million by 2060. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • It's the work of Carl Akeley, the museum's pioneering taxidermist: At the turn of the last century, he brought naturalism to animal poses, as in his fighting elephants in the Field's central hallway. (chicagotribune.com)
  • In her new book, Noliwe Rooks examines the content, messages and impact of eight African-American women's magazines from the turn of the century. (princeton.edu)
  • Rooks' latest book, published by Rutgers University Press, sheds light on the intra-racial conversations that took place among black women at the turn of the 20th century. (princeton.edu)
  • For the artist Chant Avedissian, with an interest in the iconic images of Egyptian history, Nasser's and Kalsoum's pharaonic cultural influences filled his eyes-and ears. (si.edu)
  • The interior is restored and contains images of angels playing musical instruments and important people from the history of the Catholic Church. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the U.S., the city of New Orleans was devastated by yellow fever epidemics in the 19th century. (consumeraffairs.com)
  • Finally, the course seeks to excite students about the field of history by addressing the issue of why someone would want to become an historian. (beloit.edu)
  • She also serves as a lecturer in the history department. (princeton.edu)
  • Torsten Janson is a researcher at CMES and Senior Lecturer in History of Religions and Religious Behavioural Science at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies. (lu.se)
  • These cards are like vignettes showing the changes that have taken place since one century ago - a pictorial documentation of Racine preserved for future generations to enjoy. (arcadiapublishing.com)
  • In a Tuesday floor speech, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell denied this entirely - accusing Democrats of lying about history for political purposes. (vox.com)
  • This course is required for all history majors, who should complete it by the end of their sophomore year or before they declare a major. (beloit.edu)
  • His other major interest is the global history of treason (legal and conceptual history). (southampton.ac.uk)
  • He also concluded that "at common law, at the time of the adoption of our Constitution, and throughout the major portion of the 19th century, abortion was viewed with less disfavor than under most American statutes currently in effect. (ncregister.com)
  • A module in literary history enables students to study a selection of British literary texts from the beginning to the late 20th century focusing on major authors. (lu.se)
  • Hospital dietetics appeared in the 12th very similar to the current Mediterranean century as shown in the records of the his- diet [ 3 ]. (who.int)
  • Wisconsin started to look less like a swing state in the late 1980s. (wpr.org)
  • The Holocaust is one of the darkest times in history. (ipl.org)
  • This event is considered one of the darkest and most horrific moments in human history, and its impact is still felt today. (ipl.org)
  • The UN: Israel bombardment is "the darkest chapter in Palestinian history. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • The literary texts are studied in a context of cultural history. (lu.se)
  • Graciela Iglesias-Rogers is currently principal investigator of the AHRC-funded project 'The Hispanic-Anglosphere: transnational networks, global communities (late 18th-20th centuries)' in. (ox.ac.uk)
  • I was born in 1981 and, because of that, I largely missed the part of American history where our rivers were so polluted that they did things like, you know, catch fire. (boingboing.net)
  • The Artstor Digital Library is rich with collections that cover general American history. (jstor.org)
  • Crusades further contribute to the spread of smallpox in Europe with the European Christians moving to and from the Middle East during the next two centuries. (cdc.gov)