Naval stores originally got their name because ... to go into iron mining in the 19th Century, died in 1921. When the Newport Chemical & Dye division was sold to the du Ponts in 1931, Ferdinand ...

The Naval Academy library removed nearly 400 books on race and gender. A $50,000 fundraiser helped a bookstore offer the ...

A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below: List of Removed Books from Nimitz Library Released: April 4, 2025 Publication Title Subjects Date 1 How to be an ...

Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Allen County Public Library In the mid-19th century ... an important naval engagement between the Union and the Confederacy, in which ...

George Catlin's c. 1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as highly imaginative. Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art ...

The skeletal remains of a 19th-century French child revealed evidence of rickets and scurvy, alongside high mercury levels, suggesting mercury was used as a treatment.

By the mid-19th century, the push for standardization had become increasingly urgent. Scientific discovery was accelerating, global trade was booming and industrial projects were growing in scale ...

Men of War connects David Crane’s previous books on the Byronic world of Edward Trelawny and the icy heroism of Captain Scott, using three nineteenth-century captains to examine the meaning of heroism ...

It was Britain’s first Army-Navy surplus sale ... just like the farmers, country stores, merchants, and slaveholders of the 19th century. The Pittsburgh-based aircraft supplier Howmet, for ...