Each state in the country has bragging rights to iconic buildings, many often highlighting its past and present. From the colonial homesteads of New England to the frontier towns of the West, America’s buildings trace the country’s history, regional differences, and the endurwwing influence of the people who made the continent their home long before […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader
Normandy, French Normandie, historic and cultural region of northern France encompassing the départements of Manche, Calvados, Orne, Eure, and Seine-Maritime and coextensive with the former province of Normandy. It was recreated as an administrative entity in 2016 with the union of the régions of Basse-Normandie and Haute-Normandie. (Read Sir John Keegan’s Britannica entry on the Normandy Invasion.) The Seine and Eure valleys were inhabited from Paleolithic times. Their Celtic inhabitants were conquered by Julius Caesar in 56 bce, and the region eventually became the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis Secunda. Its inhabitants were Christianized in the 3rd and 4th centuries
The University of South Carolina historian holds that the American Revolution was launched to defend the institution of slavery against the British Empire.
Decentralization, Absolutism, and the Papal States
by David Kertzer
Historian David Kertzer made a name for himself with his 1997 book
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. The book covers the until then rarely mentioned case of an Italian Jewish boy who was illicitly baptized by the housekeeper, and then kidnapped in 1858 by Papal State authorities on the grounds that Jews in the Papal States could not be permitted to raise a Christian child.
Because so few books or in-depth articles have been written on the topic in English, Kertzer now enjoys a position as perhaps the preeminent expert on the case. This is no small thing since a number of filmmakers including Steven Spielberg have expressed interest in dramatizing the Mortara case on film. The film project explicitly based on Kertzer’s book was still moving forward as of February of this year.1
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people, and hence, every day has been a significant one in the foibles of History. Let’s take a tour of “This Day in History – 5th of May”.
1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire
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Kublai Khan was a Mongolian general and statesman who was the grandson and greatest successor of Genghis Khan. He was the fifth emperor (reigned 1260–94) of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty. In 1279 he completed the conquest of China begun by Genghis Khan and became the first Yuan ruler of all of China.