Month: November 2017

Nat Turner’s Rebellion On the night of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner led a small band of fellow slaves into the Southhampton, Virginia, home of Joseph Travis, his owner. The…

On September 16, 1830, a crowd gathered in Baltimore, Maryland, to watch a most unusual race. A spirited gray horse was pitted against a tiny steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb.…

Ride During 1775, the year the American Revolution began, tensions rose between the American colonist and the British army. The situation was most explosive in Massachusetts, where the Patriots were…

Shay’s Rebellion Daniel Shays was angry. The Massachusetts farmer had fought bravely in the Revolution. But five years after the war, he believed that he and his neighbors were being…

The Fourth of July On July 4, 1777, the night sky of Philadelphia shone with the blaze of bonfires below. Candles illuminated the windows of houses and public buildings. Church…

The Signing of the Mayflower Compact After two long months at sea, the mood on the Mayflower was as foul as the weather. The ship had left Plymouth England, carrying…

Anne Hutchinson Freedom of religion is a constitutional right that many Americans take for granted. But in the early days of settlement, it was dangerous to disagree with the religious…

“Youth is eternal.” How true is this statement? Does student life actually change? Let us get a glimpse into it, and into an interesting education program, in 1930s Hungary. University…

On the first of May each year from the 1880s onward the young women at Whitelands teacher training college in London celebrated by throwing to the wind the timetable that…

What kind of foreign educational opportunities did the Hungarian students have at an university, that was founded in Pozsony (Bratislava) in 1914, and quickly changed its seat twice between 1919…