Would be no skipping and dancing. No heathen. The exposition was a dream city, but it was Burnham’s dream. Everywhere
The hospital treated 11,602 patients, sixty-four a day, for injuries and ailments that suggest that the mundane sufferings of people have not changed very much over the ages. The list included: 820 ca...
He bought his farm. The grueling work that had so worn on him during his boyhood now became for him both a soul-saving diversion and a romantic harking back to America’s past.
When the conversation turned to Germany’s persecution of Jews, Colonel House urged Dodd to do all he could to ameliorate Jewish sufferings but added a caveat: the Jews should not be allowed to dominat...
Thomas Wolfe wrote, Here was an entire nation … infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations.
These were the descendants of the colonials returning now at Britain’s hour of need, the moment captured in an immediately famous painting by Bernard Gribble, The Return of the Mayflower.
These were complicated people moving through a complicated time, before the monsters declared their true nature
The men lived for the moment the boat ascended to the surface and the hatch in the conning tower was opened. The first breath of fresh air, the open conning-tower hatch and the springing into life of...
THE TRAIN CARRYING THE BODY OF ELLEN AXSON Wilson pulled into the station at Rome, Georgia, at 2:30 in the afternoon, Tuesday, August 11, 1914, under gunmetal skies, amid the peal of bells.
THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely.
Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine...
Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day.
Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that convulsed Germany and at last drove Roosevelt to issue a public condemnation. He told reporters he could scarcely believe that such a thing could occur in twentieth...
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI,The Divine Comedy: Canto I(Carlyle-Wicksteed Translation, 1932)
In conclusion, he said, one may safely say that it would be no sin if statesmen learned enough of history to realize that no system which implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended...
In an article about the warning, the paper quoted Cunard’s New York manager, Charles Sumner, as saying that in the danger zone there is a general system of convoying British ships. The British Navy is...
In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to a human being with his skin removed.
If you cannot give me all that I want—what my heart finds it hard now to breathe without—it is because I am not worthy. I know instinctively you could give it if I were—and if you understood,—understo...
If I told you, you wouldn’t know what I was talking about.
I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time. Bloom