The fall of Rome was the proof text for this lesson , but in nineteenth - century American culture , its locus classicus was Thomas Cole's monumental cycle of paintings The Course of Empire . Exhibited in New York in 1836 , it portrayed ...
Women hadn't been allowed until the Haig administration. It was a historic place. Thanksgiving wishbones from World War I doughboys who didn't make it home from France still hung from the rafters. “Have an ancestor who fought over there ...
Empire City
An eclectic and entertaining historical celebration of New York City includes an outstanding array of literary writings and incisive essays that chronicle the city from its early seventeenth-century origins to the September 11th terrorist ...
This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin.
It is the year 2206. All that remains of the world is the Americas. Empire city has banished all women for 3 generations now and men have absolute control, using female synthetics as companions/servants.
It tells the story that began with a small and fragile New Zealand Company Pakeha settlement relying only on whaling and racked by earthquakes.