The 36 year civil war (1960-1996) that ravaged Guatemala left more than 200,000 people dead and at least 100,000 women raped: most of the victims were Mayan. Finally, the sexual violence perpetrated against Mayan women is being investigated as part of the genocide proceedings taking place in Spanish tribunals.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist is best known for her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. During her lifetime, she wrote about 30 novels.
Discussing Marie/Mary Tepe it transpires her husband had wished her to stay home and run his business instead of worrying herself with men and armies...
The Irish Civil War was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and came alongside the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom.
Queen Marie Henriette of Belgium, neé Archduchess of Austria. 1860s
One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of Ijeoma's faith, test her resolve and flood her heart.In this masterful novel of faith, love and redemption, Okparanta takes us from Ijeoma's childhood in war-torn Biafra, through the perils and pleasures of her blossoming sexuality, her wrong turns, and into the everyday sorrows and joys of marriage and motherhood. As we journey with Ijeoma we are drawn to the question: what is the value of love and what is the cost?
Block # 6 Madame's Star By Pat Styring Southern girls educated at Northern boarding schools risked "imbibing habits and manners not perfectly congenial with those of the people of the South," warned an Alabama parent. Cautious planters and urban aristocrats had the option of pricey schools closer to home. Among the elite academies was Madame Talvande's French School for Young Ladies, L'École pour Demoiselles, in Charleston, South Carolina, run by a family of Haitian refugees. Madame Talvande's school building still stands, known today as the Sword Gate House. Mary Boykin Miller (1823-1886) soon after her marriage to James Chesnut in 1840. Mary Miller, a student in the late 1830s, recalled Madame as,"the Tyrant of Legare St." who was forced to seek U.S. asylum by revolution in Haiti, then called St. Domingue. The Haitian uprising (1791-1804) was the most successful of the slave revolutions, creating the second independent country in the Western hemisphere. "She wasted no time in vain regrets, or in thoughts of what was due her by God and man---on account of her social position---before the social earthquake; but she at once took measures to utilize her rare accomplishments, and to make them pay." Madame's accomplishments: She was a native French speaker and a force to be reckoned with. The Eastern U.S. was dotted with what were called French Schools run by exiles from Europe and the Caribbean with just those gifts. Unknown school. Class picture with Madame? About 1860 Mary was a favorite student, invited to sit at Madame's table during meals, conversing skillfully in the required French. (English was forbidden.) Classmate Susan Petigru was not so favored. Sue did not thrive in French and believed that girls in her elite position wasted time and tuition on education. Block # 6 Madame's Star By Denniele Bohannon Sue and Mary had much in common besides social class. Both were gifted writers and conversationalists, witty and outspoken. But Mary knew the limits for Southern womanhood. Sue never accepted the conventions, earning a lifelong reputation as a "fast woman." Sue published popular novels pushing those limits in the 1850s. Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut wrote novels too, but she's remembered for her Civil War diary, while Sue Petigru King is forgotten except by those who relish a scandalous life story. Older sister Caroline Petigru Carson (1820–1892) enjoyed her years at Madame Talvande's more than Sue did. The 1841 portrait is by Thomas Sully, Collection: Gibbes Museum of Art Chintz album quilt. Signatures from Columbia, Charleston, Savannah, Danbury, Connecticut & New York sold at Skinner's Auctions. Quilt dated 1848, Eudora F. Davis, Sumter District, South Carolina. Online auction. Other names include Clark. Finding antebellum South Carolina album quilts with pieced blocks is almost as hard as finding Yankee pupils in Carolina girls' schools. Cut-out-chintz applique is the dominant style in pre-Civil-War South Carolina signature quilts but here are some familiar pieced designs. (We are not going to do the pale blue sunburst!) Madame Talvande's "had two or three distinct cliques," wrote Mary in a thinly veiled novel about school days. She classified herself (and probably Sue) as among the English girls---those "of Cavalier stock" (meaning descended from English aristocrats). There were "The French speaking [Catholic] refugees from St. Domingo of whom Madame was a distinguished representative. wonderfully handsome girls... gayer and less studious than Charleston proper...." Then the "Huguenots...not ashamed then to be both American and protestants." She lists their traits: piety, thrift, industry, energy and worldly wisdom, "stiff necked, with somewhat of a hard narrowness." The always observant Mary could bite. Mary's parents removed her from Madame Talvande's after gossip she was seen walking with James Chesnut, six years older. James and Mary married when she was 17. He was a clerk in Sue's father's law office. Once the Millers met Mary's callers in frontier Mississippi, a temporary home, they sent her right back to Charleston. Sue's stay at Madame Talvande's was short. Hoping perhaps for more polish, her parents enrolled her in a French School in Philadelphia, which she didn't like any better than she did Philadelphia or the North. Mix of chintz and calico styles in an album dated 1843 from the Philadelphia/NJ area, made by Hannah Nicholson Grave's Quaker relatives. Collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History See a post on Hannah Grave's three quilts here: https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2018/05/hannah-nicholson-grave-quilts.html Links between Carolina students and Philadelphia schools seems to have been one agent of design transmission. Girls like Sue (if Sue noticed needlework at all) would have brought new Philadelphia fashion back home. The Block: Madame's Star Block # 6 Madame's Star By Mark Lauer Blocks from an undated mid-19th century New Jersey album from Stella Rubin Antiques Simple nine patch stars often served as signature blocks. This month's design gives different effects with different shading. On the reverse of an 1843 quilt from Swedesboro, New Jersey in Mary Koval's collection. It's #1634 in BlockBase, published in the 1930s by Nancy Page as Mosaic. Block # 6 Madame's Star By Mark Lauer Cutting a 12" Block A - Cut 2 dark & 2 light squares 4-7/8" Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. You need 8 large triangles. B - Cut 1 light, 1 dark & 2 medium squares 5-1/4". Cut each into 4 triangles with 2 diagonal cuts. You need 16 medium-sized triangles. C- Cut 2 squares 2-7/8" Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. You need 4 small triangles. D - Cut 1 square 3-3/8". Sewing Block # 6 Madame's Star By Denniele Bohannon A Sentiment for June A scroll with a bouquet from a set of blocks dated 1843 in the Philadelphia Museum of Art The Civil War & After Mary and Sue kept up an edgy relationship through the Civil War. Through her husband Mary was Confederate elite. Sue married Henry King, a Charleston lawyer who was neither ambitious nor sober. By the time the War came and Henry joined the Sumter Guard they were living apart. Henry was killed in the Battle of Secessionville in June, 1862. Susan Dupont Petigru King Bowen (1824 - 1875) perhaps about 1870 Sue's Southern family was outspoken against Secession. During the War sister Caroline found that Charlestonians thought so little of her opinions she was obliged to obtain a pass to move to New York and then Italy. Sue remained in Charleston and Columbia, suspected of spying, treason and hiding Yankee fugitives and growing more rebellious and combative as the years passed. The former classmates met at Columbia's 1862 Gunboat Fair. In her diary Mary noted Sue's escort, an infatuated soldier 12 years her junior, and called her "fast." "People talk of her flirtations and keep out of her way because she is so quarrelsome." Two years later Mary had the nerve to accuse Sue to her face of dressing provocatively in search of a new husband. "And yet I am as afraid of her as death." In January, 1865 Sue was talking of her engagement to Confederate General Pierre Toutant Beauregard. Mary was indignant. "She showed his letters and his photograph. Incredulous we were and openly pronounced the photograph proof worth nothing. Anybody can get that for a small pile of Confederate money. It is in every shop window." Paper photos like this carte-de-visite of P.T. Beauregard were collectibles, apparently advertised in "every shop window" in Columbia right up to the end of the War. Sue was perhaps delusional as well as bad-tempered. Well, I could go on as it's so much fun to read Mary Chesnut's diary. She is a 21st-century woman in a 19th century-milieu. Block # 6 Madame's Star By Becky Brown Read previews of recent editions of both Mary's and Sue's novels. Sue enjoyed financial success with several of her books in the 1850s. See Busy Moments of an Idle Woman (1853) and Lily: A Novel (1855). Gerald Gray's Wife and Lily: A Novel have recently been republished. Here's a preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=yvFC913xm50C&pg=PR17&dq=sue+king+lily+a+novel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjch97B8sDWAhVJjFQKHf1CCOwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=sue%20king%20lily%20a%20novel&f=false Mary Chesnut's novel Two Years or the Way We Lived Then was not published till recently. https://books.google.com/books?id=uhVbWa-kA7oC&pg=PR9&dq=mary+chesnut+two+years+or+the+way+we+lived+then&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQtZ7N8MDWAhXqlFQKHeVlDBsQ6wEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=mary%20chesnut%20two%20years%20or%20the%20way%20we%20lived%20then&f=false The introductions are the best part.
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Here's a pretty little nine patch block with an intriguing inscription but no date. "Union is Strength" Emily Caroline Beatty. Allentown N.J. M.T. Palmer Perhaps Mary Taylor Palmer Palmer who married Sterne Palmer The Monmouth County Historical Association owns three of these nine-patch blocks, a gift of Anna Louise C. Rudner in 1993. "Lydia L Conover Holmdell N Jersey" Lydia used the same floral print as Emily. Is she Lydia Matilda Conover (1831-1889) who married Charles M. Taylor, a relative (however distant) of Mary Taylor Palmer? Monmouth County's Holmdel (with one L at the end) was named for all the Holmes who lived there. One of whom Emily Beatty married. Did Emily's motto "Union is Strength" have anything to do with the Civil War? The three blocks seem to be from the early 1840s. At least the inked and possibly stamped inscriptions would have to date after 1840. You don't see inked album blocks until 1841 or later. However, the two brown floral fabrics used in the nine-patches seem older than 1840---maybe as early as 1825? Did Emily, Lydia and Mary ink their names on old blocks when the album fad began in the mid-1840s? And then decide not to make them into a quilt as they were so old-fashioned? The Union School is on the National Register of Historic Places. It's all speculation but I doubt the Union motto was political. There was a Union School in Monmouth County founded in 1842---perhaps the women had something to do with it as teachers or students. Emily's grave site:https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34764482/emily-c-holmes Lydia's https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119394274/lydia-matilda-taylor
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In Post-Civil War New York, some 30,000 homeless children wandered the streets. Catholic sisters provided alternatives to failing public alms-houses.
'Extraordinary' Maaza Mengiste'Exhilarating' Elif BatumanSelam is the youngest child in a large turbulent family. Even before she is born, her omniscience animates life in a Small Town in 1980s southwestern Ethiopia. Selam and her father listen to the radio in secret as the socialist military junta that recently overthrew the government seizes properties and wages civil war in the North. The Asmelashes, once an enterprising, land-owning family, are ostracized under the new regime. In the Small Town where they live, nosy women convene around coffee ceremonies multiple times a day, the gossip spreading like wildfire.As Selam's mother, the powerful and relentlessly dignified Degitu, grows ill, she embraces a persecuted, Pentecostal God and insists her family convert alongside her. The Asmelashes stand solidly in opposition to the times, and Selam grows up seeking revenge on despotic comrades, neighbourhood bullies, and a ruthless God. Wise beyond her years yet thoroughly naive, she contends with an inner fury, a profound sadness, and a throbbing, unstoppable pursuit of education, freedom, and love.The History of a Difficult Child is about what happens when mother, God, and country are at odds, and how one difficult child finds her voice.
Born into slavery on August 3, 1859, in Savannah, Missouri, Baker's early years were shaped by the loss of his mother at just three months old. Raised by Sallie Mackay, the wife of his owner, and his father, Abraham Baker, he grew up alongside his siblings Susie, Peter, Annie, and Ellen, who were freed after the Civil War. Despite the challenges he faced, Baker pursued an education at Franklin College, where he developed a keen interest in mechanical sciences.It was through years of persistent effort that Baker focused on inventing a groundbreaking product. He experimented with various forms of friction, including the mechanical rubbing of bricks and different types of metals. After twenty-three years of dedicated work, he achieved the perfect design: two metal cylinders, one nestled within the other, with a wooden core that spun at the center to generate friction. This invention served as the cornerstone of his heating/radiator system.In 1904, Baker, along with several other individuals, established the Friction Heat & Boiler Company in St. Joseph. He played an instrumental role as a member of the board of directors, overseeing the manufacturing of his innovative heater. The company thrived, accumulating an impressive capital of $136,000, which equates to nearly $4 million in today's currency.Baker confidently claimed that the power source driving the friction was not limited to any specific mode. It could be wind, water, gasoline, or any other energy source. One of the most challenging aspects of his invention was proving that his system could effectively light and heat a house at approximately half the cost of existing methods. Here he stand with another man (possibly his brother, Peter) with his invention, Super Heating Union, taken in St. Joseph, Missouri, Feb. 12, 1906. Charles S. L. Baker's journey as an inventor and entrepreneur exemplifies perseverance and ingenuity. His groundbreaking achievements in the field of mechanical sciences continue to inspire and pave the way for advancements in heating and energy efficiency. You might like: Five Unsung Heroes That You Might Not Know
Ely S. Parker was a Seneca leader who had a hand in ending the American Civil War. In fact, Parker drafted the Confederate surrender documents with his own hand
Researcher Marjo Liukkonen says that the history of the post-1918 civil war Hennala prison camp in Lahti is one not only of retribution, but also of misogyny and eugenics.
Years after she founded Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis realized that she had lost control of the holiday she helped create.
‘The portrait is your mirror. It’s you’. – August Sander In the early 1920s Sander began People of the 20th Century – one of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of photography, the project occupied Sander for some 40 years, from the early 1920s until his death, during which he took portraits of hundreds … Continue reading "The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander"
In celebration of the upcoming royal wedding I have prepared a list to celebrate another British royal tradition - the mistress. Mistress's have been recognised since written history began. Traditionally a mistress was a woman who was kept, as a lover, by a man who could afford to maintain her lifestyle, the better the mistress the more costly the upkeep. Young women, and often there family's, would work to attract the richest and most powerful lovers for the money and status that came with him. Usually this was outside of the mans marriage but often the wife was aware of the mistress and accepted her presence as the social norm. This does not include women who may have spent a night with a king but any woman who was kept as a mistress for any length of time. This list will look at 10 of the most prolific philandering English Monarchs and the women they kept.
Returning to a nostalgic past may not be what is required to equip the family to face the rigors and pressures of modern life.
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Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips is a mesmerizing historical fiction novel that transports readers to the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Set in 1874, the story revolves around twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. Eliza hasn’t spoken in over a year, and ConaLee takes
