

"Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see, this is the chief. ... You do not know what beauty is if you have not been here." -- Mark Twain on Hartford, 1868 = In his 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today , Hartford resident Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) coined the term for the late 19th C. period of incredible wealth associated with the rise of white-collar employ...
This project covers Caribbean peoples migrating to and from North America/the United Colonies (U.C.)/ United States (U.S.), prior to 1900. Starting about 1500. * A time-line of Latin America ==Arrivals in Caribbean from Europe==* Jews from Spain, Portugal, Holland, and Britain * See Albion's Seed project* Scottish and Irish prisoners and indentured servants* Cromwell's fleet arrived in J...
The Shinsengumi (新選組, "New Select Brigade") was a special police force organized by the Bakufu (military government) during Japan's Bakumatsu period (late Tokugawa shogunate) in 1863. It was active until 1869.[1] It was founded to protect the shogunate representatives in Kyoto at a time when a controversial imperial edict to exclude foreign trade from Japan had been made and the Chōshū clan had...