Eli Whitney ranks as one of the great inventors of American history. Associated in innumerable textbooks with the cotton gin that he developed, his contribution to the development of the American economy extended far beyond this simple device. Constance McL. Green explains his impact on our histor...
An informative and lively history of this monument.Interesting stories of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, and Joseph Pulitzer.
Dedicated to Schlesinger, this is an attempt to look behind economic and political events and actions, to find “a large body of ideas, unformalized preconceptions, that embodied people’s notions of the kind of world in which they lived and the kind of world in which they wanted to live.” Overall, I...
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