Monthly Archive: May 2016
Introduction The American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACASR) was formed in 1915 at the behest of American Ambassador Henry Morgenthau in response to the deportations, massacres, and atrocities committed against Armenians,...
Introduction On May 16, 1910, on the occasion of the unveiling of statues of Pulaski and Kosciuszko in Washington, D.C. by President Taft, the Norwich Bulletin reprinted an article from the Hartford Times entitled...
Introduction “For African Americans,” urban historian Steven J. Diner wrote, “the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century seemed in many respects the worst of times” (p....
On Memorial Day one hundred years ago today, the Howland Dry Goods Co. of Bridgeport chose to use their advertising space in the Bridgeport Evening Farmer to publish this commentary on the Great War...
“Football Tactics Adopted by Tennesseans to Gain Rostrum,” The Morning Journal-Courier, March 26, 1908 The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project is preparing to scan The Morning Journal-Courier (New Haven, Conn.) from 1887 through 1908. The...