Why Were the Jews Persecuted? - History Today
Biblical Times. Much of the history of the Jewish people can be found in the Old Testament, in which we learn that the Jews are the 'chosen people'. By making a covenant with God, they would, in return for being chosen, obey his laws. After their exile in Egypt the Jewish people were led back by Moses into Israel, where, by force of arms, they ...
Scotland’s Darien Scheme - History Today
Dec 12, 2021 · Known as the Darien Scheme, today the enterprise is seen as a colossal mistake. The territory was claimed by Spain and the Scots could never have challenged the military might of that declining but still formidable empire. The land was occupied by the Tule people, so the colony’s dreams of wealth relied on the exploitation of indigenous lands.
The Crusades: A Complete History | History Today
The First Crusade was called in November 1095 by Pope Urban II at the town of Clermont in central France. The pope made a proposal: 'Whoever for devotion alone, but not to gain honour or money, goes to Jerusalem to liberate the Church of God …
Sewing Machines: Liberation or Drudgery for Women?
Dec 12, 2002 · With its effects felt on both the household and workplace over the 19th century, the invention of the sewing machine changed women’s lives. But not always for the better. The Scientific American (September 22nd, 1860) considered that, after the Spinning Jenny and the plough, the sewing machine was ‘the most important invention that has ever ...
Shaken and Stirred: A History of James Bond
Oct 10, 2012 · Sent to Jamaica to investigate a suspicious disappearance, the British spy James Bond (007) eventually tracks the killer and a previously unknown secret organisation to Crab Key. With the help of an innocent girl called Honey Ryder, famously dressed in a white bikini, Bond confronts the first of many evil geniuses intent on implementing plans ...
Josephine Baker: An Acceptable Hero | History Today
Mar 3, 2022 · On 30 November 2021 Josephine Baker, the African-American performer who took French citizenship, was inducted into the Pantheon. The Pantheon is France’s secular equivalent to Westminster Abbey, the hallowed home of the country’s honoured dead. Induction and interment within its walls enshrines a person as a national hero.
Alaska: Russia’s American Folly | History Today
O n March 30th, 1867, the American Secretary of State, William H. Seward, signed a treaty with the Russian Minister, Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, to conclude what was perhaps the shrewdest purchase in history – Alaska, 586,400 square miles of land, furs, fish, timber, minerals and gold. The price was $7,200,000; just two cents an acre. The purchase of Alaska was the sole triumph among Seward's ...
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget? | History Today
5 days ago · But it wasn’t always this way. After 1945 many Germans embraced a kind of collective amnesia. The nation wanted to ‘draw a line under’ the atrocities of the war and rebuild. 1945 was the ‘zero hour’ – a chance to start again. The Nazis’ victims were a taboo subject. But, with time, this attempt to forget began to fray.
Weathering Storms - History Today
Sep 26, 2017 · For most of the 19th century, besides being aware of the hurricane season (June-November), there was little that those living in the Caribbean could do to predict the arrival of storms. As rains and winds began to pick up, the wealthy took shelter in the cellars of their stone houses, while the wooden shacks of the enslaved population offered ...
The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | History Today
O n May 2nd, 1803, two American diplomats signed a treaty in Paris in accordance with which the United States acquired 900,000 square miles of territory. Out of this enormous tract, known as the Louisiana Purchase, were carved Louisiana itself, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and the greater part of …