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 History of Seattle before 1900 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seattle was incorporated as a town January 14, 1865.
Seattle was re-incorporated as a city on December 2, 1869.
Seattle, as well as the rest of the nation, was hard hit by the Panic of 1893, and to a lesser extent, the Panic of 1896.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Seattle_before_1900   (6020 words)

  
 Seattle, Washington - www.1-seattle.com
Seattle's climate is mild, with the temperature moderated by the sea and protected from winds and storms by the mountains.
Seattle's worldwide reputation for rain derives from the fact that it is cloudy an average of 226 days per year (vs. 132 in New York City) and the fact that most of its precipitation falls as drizzle or light rain, as Seattle is in the rain shadow of the Olympic mountains.
Seattle has an educated population: of Seattle's population over the age of 25, 47.2% (vs. a national average of 24%) hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 93% (vs. 80% nationally) have a high school diploma or equivalent.
www.1-seattle.com   (6905 words)

  
 Seattle Mariners (1977-Present)
Ironically former Seattle Pilot Diego Segui was the starting pitcher for the Mariners as 57,762 fans settled in for the birth of Mariners baseball.
Seattle was beginning to look to build around these 2 as a foundation for the future.
Seattle was in fact a baseball town, and the playoff drive would force the Seattle Legislator into a special session where they devised a new plan, and finally approved the building of a new stadium.
www.sportsecyclopedia.com /al/seattlems/mariners.html   (6014 words)

  
 Steven Crum | Rare Exceptions: Some University Professors and the Teaching of Native American History, 1900–1970 ...
Weeks maintained that the study of this history needed to be improved because it had been told from the "white man's point of view." White historians had advanced two generalized views of Indians: the cruel savage and the noble savage.
An appropriate Indian history, according to Weeks, needed "to be written accurately and importantly from the Indian's as well as from the white man's point of view," or as a synthesis of both, to present a more balanced account.
As had been the case before, these scholars were motivated by an external factor outside their respective universities, and that agent was the subject of Indian claims rooted in the Congressional Indian Claims Commission (ICC) Act of 1946.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/39.2/crum.html   (8097 words)

  
 H. Marcuse: Dachau and the Memory of National Socialism
The "hermetic isolation" he had spoken of before the international audience in the preceding November was a subterfuge that would not have been credible to listeners who had experienced the many town-camp interactions firsthand.
And similar to the apathetic neglect of the Dachau mass graves before 1949 in the West, former Buchenwald inmates were demanding in 1949 that a January 1948 promise by Thuringian officials to care for mass graves at Buchenwald be fulfilled.
The history of the Holocaust in the narrower sense as we conceive of it today: the systematic extermination of the Jews of Europe, was included, albeit briefly.
www.history.ucsb.edu /faculty/marcuse/present/seattle.htm   (9356 words)

  
 History of Seattle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seattle, as well as the rest of the nation, was suffering from the economic panic of 1893, and to a lesser extent, the panic of 1896.
Seattle evaded the fate of Detroit through being a port city with a large number of highly educated skilled workers, though the boom decades of the 1950s and 1960s had been brought to a decisive end.
Seattle was definitely recovering from the blow dealt by the Boeing recession, refilling areas that had threatened to become slums.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Seattle   (3847 words)

  
 Buddhism - Jodo Shinsu - Buddhism Comes to Seattle and King County
Baptist, Buddhist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and YMCA congregations, as well as the newly formed Seattle Japanese IBusinessmen's] Association, Nihonjinkai, took to the streets in a then seemingly hopeless effort to dissuade lumber handlers and railroaders from "undesirable moral development," that is, from patronizing saloons and prostitution houses.
Seattle has made giant strides and is prospering as a center of trade.
When the City of Seattle bought the church property in 1940 to use as a part of the Yesler Terrace Housing Project, the Sangha built a new structure that was barely opened before the Buddhists were exiled to concentration camps in Idaho.
www.seattlebetsuin.com /betsuin_history_centennial.htm   (4199 words)

  
 A Sociology Guy's Historical Resources
Of course, the reason for the loathing and fear of this gentleman was that he held a frame of reference that degraded the present.
This brings us to the matter of controlling such memories and the proverbial "lessons of history." Although the past is for all intents and purposes gone (the present is shaped by its own past and future), it is routinely resurrected to serve various functions.
History Matters: a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
www.trinity.edu /~mkearl/history.html   (1358 words)

  
 History Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This field is designed to introduce students to a broad range of key issues in the study of workingclass history through comparative reading and discussion.
Professor Crowston specializes in social and cultural history of early modern France, history of women and gender; and the history of work.
Professor Steinberg is a historian of modern Russia, specializing in the cultural and social history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
www.history.uiuc.edu /Areas/complab/complab2.html   (758 words)

  
 New Items and Events
The Aviation History Branch has posted all the command history/operations reports for all the active VAW squadrons.
Edward Marolda attended, as the representative of the Naval Historical Center, the Thirty-Second Congress of the International Commission of Military History in Potsdam, Germany, from 20-26 August 2006.
The history reports for the HM squadrons have been posted by the Aviation History Branch.
www.history.navy.mil /whatsnew.html   (1487 words)

  
 The Mother of All Maritime Links: Page 22 of 47   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The History of Military Naval Technologies (Focuses on the German navy and the evolution of naval technology from the beginning of the century to the end of WW II)
History of Nova Scotia (Biographies and essays by Peter "Blupete" Landry)
A History of Sailing Cutters (As employed during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries by smugglers, the revenue authorities, the navy, and as yachts)
www.boat-links.com /linklists/boatlink-22.html   (2262 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The History Index (from the University of Kansas)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
More than 25 digitized collections of images and text covering the history of the Pacific Northwest primarily Washington State but also Alaska and other areas from the holdings of Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives at the University of Washington.
www.bothell.washington.edu /library/guides/subjects/history.html   (2867 words)

  
 genreral sites
A collection of interviews with former slaves who discuss their lives before and after freedom.
African American chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers, and mathematicians have contributed in both large and small ways that can be overlooked when chronicling the history of science.
By describing the scientific history of selected African American men and women we can see how the efforts of individuals have advanced human understanding in the world around us.
www.utm.edu /staff/jimnance/blackhistory/general.htm   (789 words)

  
 History & Archeology
Tangled Roots Exploring the histories of Americans of Irish heritage and Americans of African heritage
Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
History of Economic Thought Huge collection of classic texts by economists
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/serious/history.html   (914 words)

  
 WWW-VL: History: United States: Gilded Age, 1876-1900; US History
A Brief History of American Literature and Events 1870-1879
History of the Johnstown Flood, by Willis Fletcher Johnson
RETURN TO WWW-VL: History was established as HNSource (Kansas History Gateway) on 6 March 1993.
vlib.iue.it /history/USA/ERAS/gilded.html   (821 words)

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