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Catholic University of America Catholic University of America
Catholic University of America at Washington, D.C.; the national university of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States; coeducational; founded 1887 and opened 1889. It includes a college of arts and sciences as well as schools of engineering and architecture, law, library and information... Read more
Economic history Economic history
HISTORY, ECONOMIC. Economic history emerged in the late nineteenth century as an academic field devoted to the study of past economic phenomena and processes. Since then it has undergone significant changes in terms of its thematic and theoretical concerns, analytical methodologies and language,... Read more
Breeching Breeching
Breeching In early America an important rite of passage in the lives of small boys was the moment they wore breeches or trousers for the first time. In infancy and early childhood, boys and girls were relegated to the feminine domestic circle and were dressed alike in petticoats, gowns,... Read more
Viscount James Bryce Viscount James Bryce
Bryce, JamesWORKS BY BRYCEWORKS ABOUT BRYCEViscount Bryce (1838–1922) is one of those figures whose importance in the history of thought is explained not by the originality or penetration of their ideas but by their pertinence to a certain time and place. He was surely one of the most successful... Read more
America the Beautiful America the Beautiful
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL is a patriotic hymn that originated as a poem written by Katharine Lee Bates in the summer of 1893 after a trip to Colorado Springs. The poem first appeared in The Congregationalist in 1895 and was set to music months later. Bates simplified the text... Read more
Jess Willard Jess Willard
BOXING Unpopular Beginnings While there have always been amateur fist fights in which contestants for recreation or in anger match skills in the "manly art of self-defense," the sport of boxing for money, or prizefighting, did not enjoy wide popularity for much of America's... Read more
Lawn Tennis Lawn Tennis
Lawn Tennis Sources British Origins.Tennis was one of the sports enjoyed mainly by the social elite and to a lesser degree by the middle class in late-nineteenth-century America. Although the origins of tennis can be traced to fourteenth-century France, the game,... Read more
Pan-Americanism Pan-Americanism
Pan-Americanism movement toward commercial, social, economic, military, and political cooperation among the nations of North, Central, and South America. In the Nineteenth Century The struggle for independence after 1810 among the Latin American nations evoked a sense of unity, especially in South... Read more
Oscar Handlin Oscar Handlin
Oscar Handlin 1915-, American historian, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940 and has taught there since 1939. Most of his work is in U.S. social and economic history, particularly in the influence of immigration on American culture. With his wife, Mary F. Handlin, he wrote ... Read more
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES. The National Council of Churches (NCC), formally known as the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1950. Conceived as an umbrella association exerting no formal control... Read more

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