The book contains articles that have appeared in The New York Times, dating from it’s
first editions in 1851 up to 1922. The compilation shows how the history,
attitudes, and accepted wisdom of... More > both America, and the publishers of The New
York Times during past times, were often greatly in variance with today’s
awareness, world views and common beliefs. Included are situations and
attitudes, which will, perhaps, shock, amaze and sometimes amuse the
sensibilities of today. We believe that exposure to these sometimes forgotten
periods of America’s history, and attitudes of other times, will provide both
interest and enlightenment for the reader. The article’s presented are an eclectic
potpourri, ranging over a wide variety of past events and attitudes.< Less
The Church History (Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica or Historia Ecclesiae) of Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological account of the development of Early... More > Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century. he result was the first full-length historical narrative written from a Christian point of view. In the early 5th century two advocates in Constantinople, Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen, and a bishop, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Syria, wrote continuations of Eusebius' church history, establishing the convention of continuators that would determine to a great extent the way history was written for the next thousand years. Eusebius' Chronicle, that attempted to lay out a comparative timeline of pagan and Old Testament history, set the model for the other historiographical genre, the medieval chronicle or universal history.< Less
