I've said before, and I'll say it again: I love Google books. Where else, at two in the morning, can you download texts from the mid-nineteenth century. The three I downloaded happened to be memoirs/recollections of Napoleon. All the authors had differing views of his life and his legacy, especially his [...]

... pastor from Springfield, Illinois and written in the mid 19th century in the American Baptist Publication Society ... point us to a solitary exception. They record none in the world's history; they predict none in its future.It may be presumption to appeal from this decision ... nature to emply the truth for that purpose. Again, Scripture history confirms me in the position taken. The instances cited point ...

... and Donde esta cerveza frio? I could see that art history wasn't in the future for me. But I decided to stick out the two semesters I had already invested. I ... famous American landscape painters of the mid-nineteenth century. He intently studied the Americas for inspiration to his paintings. ... the Medusa (1819) Oil on canvas Many artists of the 19th century had depicted human tragedy on a grand scale ...

19th century (1801-1900) (1215 AH – 1318 AH) 1803: Shah Abdul Aziz bin Muhammad bin Saud assassinated by a Shi'a fanatic. Shah Shuja proclaimed as King of ... . * 1897: State of Bagirimi occupied by the French.1899: Fall of Muhammad Ahmad's Mahdi State occupied by the British and the Egyptians jointly. By the end of this century, global Muslim population had grown to 13 per cent of the total.

... "The Lawless Centuries," chapter 2 of his The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth Century ... also profited from the state of regular medicine. During the early 19th century, from the patient's point of view, the arduous impact of ... Ibid, pp.39-40:[In the early 20th century], much might be done for the American by governments and private organizations, but the citizen in ...

Harvard's connection to Providence's base ball history goes back to June 27, 1863, when they became the Brown club's first intercollegiate opponent. So I'm particularly excited about the 19th century photos that the Harvard University Library has put online and happy that Kyle DeCicco-Carey tracked them down and brought them to my attention. It is an ...