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Revolutionary War chart: Historical chart of battles and milestones of the War of Independence. The Vault is Slate's history blog.

Revolutionary War chart: Historical chart of battles and milestones of the War of Independence

Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The George Washington Bicentennial Commission, established in 1924, collected this commemorative chart of battles, leaders, and milestones of the Revolutionary War and deposited it in the National Archives. The Commission, appointed by Calvin Coolidge, worked through the 1920s to plan activities to commemorate the anniversary of Washington’s 1732 birth. As part of this mission, the commission collected graphic materials and photographs related to Washington.

The chart’s representation of time and causation isn’t intuitive. Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (September 1791) Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (September 1791) Marie Gouze (1748–93) was a self–educated butcher’s daughter from the south of France who under the name Olympe de Gouges wrote pamphlets and plays on a variety of issues, including slavery, which she attacked as being founded on greed and blind prejudice.

Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (September 1791)

In this pamphlet she provides a declaration of the rights of women to parallel the one for men, thus criticizing the deputies for having forgotten women. She addressed the pamphlet to the Queen, Marie Antoinette, though she also warned the Queen that she must work for the Revolution or risk destroying the monarchy altogether. In her postscript she denounced the customary treatment of women as objects easily abandoned. She appended to the declaration a sample form for a marriage contract that called for communal sharing of property. To be decreed by the National Assembly in its last sessions or by the next legislature. Preamble. 1. 2. Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber - 00.06. This time my return was prompted not by nostalgia but by curiosity. No. 7 Divinity Avenue is a modern multi-story academic building today, housing the university's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

In 1959 a comfortable old house stood on the site. Known as the Annex, it served as a laboratory in which staff members of the Department of Social Relations conducted research on human subjects. There, from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962, Harvard psychologists, led by Henry A. Murray, conducted a disturbing and what would now be seen as ethically indefensible experiment on twenty-two undergraduates. HAD a special interest in Kaczynski. In 1971 Kaczynski moved to Great Falls, Montana; that summer he began building a cabin near the town of Lincoln, eighty miles southwest of Great Falls, on a lot he and his brother, David, had bought. In our desire to leave civilization Kaczynski and I were not alone. Harvard's Experiment on the Unabomber, Class of '62. The news that Ted Kaczynski was included in the 50th anniversary alumni directory has roiled the class reunion.

Harvard's Experiment on the Unabomber, Class of '62

Better known via his nom de plume (or “guerre,” as he might have it) as the “Unabomber,” Kaczynski listed his occupation as “prisoner,” his awards as “eight life sentences” and his publication as his 2010 manifesto “Technological Slavery.” How and whether his responses to the class questionnaire should have been published has caused a lot of finger-pointing and reflection in Cambridge. But his crimes were no joke. Kaczynski’s letter bombs killed three people and maimed another 23. For all the reporting about the 50th anniversary reunion dustup, an odd twist to the Harvard Unabomber story has not been mentioned: During Kaczynski’s sophomore year at Harvard, in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that, unbeknownst to him, would last three years.

Jonathan D. Moreno: Harvard's Experiment on the Unabomber, Class of '62. The news that Ted Kaczynski was included in the 50th anniversary alumni directory has roiled the class reunion.

Jonathan D. Moreno: Harvard's Experiment on the Unabomber, Class of '62

Better known via his nom de plume (or "guerre," as he might have it) as the "Unabomber," Kaczynski listed his occupation as "prisoner," his awards as "eight life sentences" and his publication as his 2010 manifesto "Technological Slavery. " How and whether his responses to the class questionnaire should have been published has caused a lot of finger-pointing and reflection in Cambridge. But his crimes were no joke. Kaczynski's letter bombs killed three people and maimed another 23. For all the reporting about the 50th anniversary reunion dustup, an odd twist to the Harvard Unabomber story has not been mentioned: During Kaczynski's sophomore year at Harvard, in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that, unbeknownst to him, would last three years. Theodore J. Kaczynski. Theodore J.

Theodore J. Kaczynski

Kaczynski ’62 entered Harvard in the fall of 1958 at the age of 16 as a shy, Chicago-raised mathematics prodigy. Twenty years after he took his first class in the Yard, he would mail his first home-made pipe bomb. Kaczynski, known in the media by his FBI code name “Unabomber,” has been described by the students who remembered him at the College as “shy” and “quiet.” “He was a loner—he didn’t talk to anyone,” said Patrick S. McIntosh ’62, one of Kaczynski’s Eliot House suitemates. But the uncovering of his connection with a string of bombings that would kill three and injure 23 over 17 years, cementing his status among Harvard’s most infamous alumni, only complicated the memories of Ted Kaczynski for those who knew him in college. “It’s just an opinion—but Ted was brilliant,” said Wayne B.

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