Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. Florida was at that time a village consisiting of log cabins. It also was a frontier village. His father was a merchant and a local magistrate. When Samuel was four, he and his family moved...
The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) between the industrial North and the agricultural, slave-owning South was a watershed in American history. The innocent optimism of the young democratic nation gave way, after the war, to a period of exhaustion. American idealism...
The generation belonged to a period of transition from values already fixed to values that had to be created. Its members began by writing for magazines with names like Transition, 1924, Secession, Broom. They were seceeding from the old, but could adhere...
Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, that emphasizes the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. Normality returned to politics in the wake of World War I, jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern...
Ireland laid outside the Roman Empire but it was greatly influeced by it. With the decline of the Roman empire in the centuries IV and V, the Roman grip in Britain weakens. The Irish in the west and the picts in the north begin to...
At the end of the XIX, a new Irish theatre was arising, as part of a movement known as the Irish literary renaissance. This movement was closely related to a strong political nationalism and a revival of Irish "the Gaelic Revival". Important names of this...
The English have been in Ireland, both as peaceful settlers and conquerors, since the 12th century. It was not until Henry VIII (king 1509-1547) that English interference took its toll on the Irish people. In order to subdue and rule Ireland, Henry sent Protestants...
The war brought radical changes in life and social forms. However, revolutionary innovations in technology already existed in 1914. The motor car, the aeroplane, the cinema, the telephone, the principles of radio, but the war speeded their development. Similarly...
Social and economic problems are the most outstanding features in Great Britain from the very end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second World War. However, two different periods should be considered, the first one from 1919 to 1929, in which...
In 1951, Churchill again became prime minister at the head of a Conservative government. George VI died on Feb. 6, 1952, and was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. Churchill stepped down in 1955 in favour of Sir Anthony Eden, who resigned on grounds...