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4 days ago · County boundaries in the U.S. have changed over 17,600 times since America was settled in colonial times! This historical counties tool built on Google Maps will help you make sure you’re searching in the correct county for the place and any historical date you are researching.
4 days ago · During the 1960s Birmingham was the scene of violence over racial segregation as well as civil rights demonstrations and voter-registration drives led by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and others.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · A number of significant changes occurred in the 1850 Census. This is the first census to include California, additional "social statistics" (information about taxes, schools, crime, wages, etc), and use of a person (rather than household) as the basic unit of enumeration.
- Maria A. Jankowska
- 2010
4 days ago · There is a great essay that was published thirty-three years before the Civil War by a guy named Sir Sydney Smith . . . called “Who Reads an American Book?” What Smith wanted to say—he was writing this in an English literary journal at the time, with a lot of cultural snobbism and chauvinism—he said, America is kind of interesting.
3 days ago · In 1941, Reece "Goose" Tatum's basketball skills were discovered while as a member of the Birmingham Black Barons. Together with Abe Saperstein, they changed professional basketball.
2 days ago · Book: Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s. edited by: Matthew Brown, Gabriel Paquette. Tuscaloosa, AL, University of Alabama Press, 2013, ISBN: 9780817317768; 328pp.; Price: £47.50. Reviewer: Dr Rosie Doyle. Institute of Latin American Studies. Citation:
4 days ago · As part of a revival effort by states and the federal government to prosecute cold cases from the civil rights era, the state placed both Blanton Jr. and Cherry on trial, who were each convicted of four counts of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 and 2002, respectively.
