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1 Aug 2008, 4:30 am
Lampedusa was born in 1896; the events of the story take place during the Risorgimento, around 1860. [read post]
10 Mar 2007, 5:00 am
Born in 1896, she lived with her parents until their death about 1928, and seems to have had a normal childhood. [read post]
6 May 2008, 5:34 pm
Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, the 1896 decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation, and Korematsu v. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 8:18 pm by Lawrence Solum
Supreme Court decisions in history, Professor McDonald undertakes the "unenviable task" of defending the Court's 1896 decision in the case of Plessy v. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 6:21 am by Gerard Magliocca
 Likewise, the gold standard became a fixed point after William Jennings Bryan’s defeat in 1896. [read post]
11 Jun 2009, 1:32 am
The State's rapidly growing population has made the effect of these droughts more severe. (1896-1905, 1930-36, 1953-65, 1974-78 (U.S. [read post]
18 Jun 2019, 6:30 am by JB
At the end of Democracy and Dysfunction, I predict that we are moving into a second Progressive Era, so I think that this is the most likely scenario.The 1896 election is generally regarded as the turning point. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 9:10 am by JB
  Other third-parties get absorbed into one of the two major parties: for example, the Populists joined forces with the Democrats in 1896, and thereafter were mostly spent as an independent force.The last example of a third party becoming a major party that regularly wins elections is the Republican Party in 1854. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
But in 1896, when Louisiana required separate (and obviously unequal) seating compartments for Blacks and Whites on railroads, the Supreme Court said yes,ushering in generations of segregation in public schools and government and private facilities.Even when the Court finally ordered public schools desegregated in 1954 in Brown v. [read post]
3 Dec 2017, 12:00 am by Smita Ghosh
” Finally, NBN features interviews with Richard White about The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (which “makes a strong case for a wholesale reevaluation of the long period after the Civil War as more than just decades of missed opportunity; Americans spent those years fundamentally reshaping the republic itself. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 1:46 pm
This history includes the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (1896), which promoted seven ‘Objectives’ for the education, economic welfare and social rights of women and youth during the early years of Jim Crow, and popularized the motto ‘Lifting as We Climb. [read post]
10 Jul 2016, 11:10 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
[US Patent 555,190 issued in 1896; filed on May 15, 1888] In July 1888, Brown and Peck negotiated a licensing deal with George Westinghouse. [read post]
16 Oct 2021, 7:11 am
Considered a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 1896, Tillman lost any chance after giving a disastrous speech at the convention. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 3:51 am
In 1896 his book Raja Yoga was published, becoming an instant success; it was highly influential in the western understanding of yoga....Many years after Vivekananda's death [Nobel Prize-winning poet] Rabindranath Tagore  [said], "If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. [read post]
5 Jan 2014, 6:06 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Tootsie goes back to 1896: Leo Hirschfeld. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 7:27 am
Finally, Part IV examines Trumbull’s career after the Senate, as a Chicago lawyer from 1873 until his death in 1896. [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 8:31 am
Holland Titcomb's Lett. i. 92   Let every garment be well fitted.. fussy in no point.... 1896   Westm. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 3:32 am
What this Kat found out about Harburg (1896-1981) confirmed what had been written in The New Yorker; he was one of the great lyricists of the 20th century. [read post]