During the experience historian Richard Barnett explains how the Great Stink in 1858 motivated parliament to embark on a major engineering project to build and modernise London's sewer system, thus ending the capital's cholera crisis.
Near the beginning of the novel, Perlman can't resist framing the nightmarish murder of Emmett Till, and of the four black girls killed in the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, as a literal bad dream, experienced by his untenured Columbia historian.
The story he tells is a fairly familiar one of a community (never more than about 1percentt of the total German population) that experienced modernity, as the cultural historian Fritz Stern has put it, in "one of the most spectacular leaps in European history".
According to the work of one influential historian, our ancestors experienced sleep in a very different way. .
Some of it stems from a primal emotional experience, what historians (or, at least, people who used to post to Television Without Pity) might recall as the Great HBO/WB Schism of 1999.
Ibn Ishaq, author of the first biography of Muhammad, presents the event as a spiritual experience; later historians, like Al-Tabari and Ibn Kathir, present it as a physical journey.
There Elizabeth experienced an emotional crisis that some historians believe affected her for the rest of her life.
Signed Comment about the V-chip and self-defeating technological advances... Anyone who stands on a New York City subway platform on a hot summer day experiences what the historian Edward Tenner has called a rearranging effect.
By the 1870s Montana as a whole was experiencing what Montana historian Frederic Allen described as a "sort of pax vigilanticus" Allen claims this was due to the reputation for summary executions but also linked to the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory.
Some historians had contended that New York City experienced only a mild early phase of the 1918 epidemic.
