The DBQ Project: Forming Arguments With History, Literature and Current Events. A history teacher and an English teacher paired New York Times articles with novels and memoirs to prepare students ...

Get ready to spark your creativity at Young V&A – the museum where children, young people and families can imagine, play and design. From Summer 2023, be inspired by spaces, explore our collection and get creative.

This course, under the direction of physician Ann Preston, awarded its first diploma in 1869 and is considered the first state chartered school for nurses in the United States. In the 1860s, several women physicians in Boston and New York including Susan Dimock and Marie Zakrzewska established formal training schools for nurses in hospitals ...

In evolutionary biology, punctuated equilibrium (also called punctuated equilibria) is a theory that proposes that once a species appears in the fossil record, the population will become stable, showing little evolutionary change for most of its geological history. This state of little or no morphological change is called stasis.When significant evolutionary change occurs, the theory …

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The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere. The European colonization of the Americas began in the late …

Peter Mark Roget LRCP FRS FRCP FGS FRAS (UK: / ˈ r ɒ ʒ eɪ / US: / r oʊ ˈ ʒ eɪ /; 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words.He also read a paper to …

The first national suffrage organizations were established in 1869 when two competing organizations were formed, ... Events soon removed much of the basis for the split in the movement. In 1870 debate about the Fifteenth Amendment was made irrelevant when that amendment was officially ratified. ... In a 1974 oral history interview, Paul ...

Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels. The major acceleration started in 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative bubble or asset bubble in …

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement and ...