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3 days ago · The Edo period from 1600 to 1868 characterized early modern Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate was a feudalist regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shōguns of the Tokugawa clan. The period gets its name from the capital city, Edo, now called Tokyo.
5 days ago · The U.S. negotiated the Quapaw Treaty of 1818, during a time when the Quapaw were living in three villages near what is now Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
1 day ago · The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812.
4 days ago · 1818: The first permanent Reform Judaism congregation, the Neuer Israelitischer Tempel, is founded in Hamburg on October 18. Around the same time, through the development of Wissenschaft des Judentums , the seeds of Conservative Judaism are sown.
3 days ago · Frederick Douglass (born February 1818, Talbot county, Maryland, U.S.—died February 20, 1895, Washington, D.C.) was an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.
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4 days ago · Amelia Bloomer (born May 27, 1818, Homer, New York, U.S.—died December 30, 1894, Council Bluffs, Iowa) was an American reformer who campaigned for temperance and women’s rights. Amelia Jenks was educated in a local school and for several years thereafter taught school and was a private tutor.
5 days ago · 18th Century Women and Gender Studies Sources. The following resources are major tools for finding digitized texts related to the history of women and gender. A collection of books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.
