1750: 61% of all British North American slaves -- nearly 145,000 -- live in Virginia and Maryland, working the tobacco fields. 1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1775 ...

This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South ...

One of the most notable series of buildings at the site is that formed by Structures E-1, E-2, and E-3, which are aligned north-south and form ... text in Precolumbian America, the stairway ...

My ConnSHARP (Connecticut College Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Research Program) project began in Summer 2010 under Professor Lizarralde's supervision, in which I produced a digital map of ...

Using a globe, ask pupils to help you find and identify the different countries in South America that the Equator passes through. Use maps and atlases, as well as aerial imagery, to find and talk ...

Captain James Cook, after exploring South Georgia in 1775, dutifully reported an "island ... out of New York—just one of 18 American and British sealers then working the island—brought back ...

Charleston soon will have the International African American Museum. The South Carolina African American ... to develop an interactive map of black history sites on the Charleston peninsula.

From Canada, the war drifted south, and today's object ... Wabash from the Piankashaw Indians around 1775. Malcolm Lewis, expert on maps and North American native cultures, explains: "It was ...

Had the south succeeded at Antietam ... From it’s grounds the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. The park follows the route of that very first battle fought on April 19th, 1775. While ...

Because of its small size, South Padre Island is often grouped with other towns along the Gulf Coast of Texas, such as Port Isabel and Brownsville, both of which make great daytrips. The town of ...

Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires ... drought,” marked with a deep red color on a NOAA map. The drought covers large parts of the Amazon rainforest, especially ...

They could be seen on the researchers’ map nationwide. The Gainsville, Florida, diagnosis intensity measured at about 1.1. But just south in more rural Ocala, the diagnosis intensity was 0.9 ...