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This article gives a description about the New Grand Central Station and also provides images of the outside and inside of the building. Specifically, the Grand Central consists of nearly 70 acres. The main terminal at the station is for outgoing…

The article that I chose talks about the remodeling of Grand Central Station, and all of the new things they added. It expresses on how much detail they had taken on building this station. In The House of Mirth the Grand Central Station was an…

In this article, they talked about the new Grand Central Station that was built. They talked about the how the new station was built and the architectural features of the new station. They also went into how the inside of the station was laid out and…

This book is an analytic study of the importance and content of black churches from both urban and rural areas. Mays and Nicholson, both prominent religious figures within the black community, decided to conduct an intensive study of 609 urban…

“The Negro Renaissance (1920-1930) also known as the Harlem Renaissance was a notable historical phase and a cultural and political development of great significance in the making and maturation of a Black Personality in the United States. Worthy of…

This article is about the men going to west point from New York. In this article they use a steam boat for the voyage. Much like the soldiers in the article The Lamplighter uses a steam boat as transportation so the similarities between the article…

“It has its own churches, social and civic centers, shops, theaters and other places of amusement. And it contains more Negroes to the square mile than any other spot on earth. A stranger who rides up magnificent Seventh Avenue on a bus or in an…

It is a map of London from 1790 by Robert Sayer showing buildings, roads, rebuilt areas, etc. from the Great Fire in 1666 up till 1790. It does show the location of Fleet prison one of the first places visited in Charlotte Temple. London also serves…

Much of the travel to India during this time, while having to do with the East India trading company, was also due to the missionary work that was being done by countries like America and England with the intent of spreading the word of God, and by…

The narration tells a personal account of ship life on a transatlantic voyage from Cape Horn in America to England in the late 1700’s, early 1800’s. Based on first-person records of details of the experience, we have a window of knowledge to grasp…