The movie provided the first motion picture account of the Sand Creek massacre, one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the American frontier, in which Colorado Territory militia under Colonel John M. Chivington massacred a defenseless village of Cheyenne and Arapaho on the Colorado Eastern Plains.

The Historical Site was authorized by Public Law 106-465 on November 7, 2000, in order to " recognize the national significance of the massacre in American history, and its ongoing significance to the Cheyenne and Arapaho people and the descendants of the massacre victims.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.

Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.

All of this, I know, is recent history familiar to you.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.

And it would seem that history is a witness to this truth.

The implicit assumption of this response is that history is reversible.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.

Abner is only referred to incidentally in Saul's history ( 1 Samuel 17: 55, 26: 5 ), and is not mentioned in the account of the disastrous battle of Gilboa when Saul's power was crushed.

In the early 21st century, Johnson is among those commonly mentioned as the worst presidents in U. S. history.

Possibly the first instance of the Angles in recorded history is in Tacitus ' Germania, chapter 40, in which the " Anglii " are mentioned in passing in a list of Germanic tribes.

The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.

Cannibalism is mentioned many times in early history and literature.

Despite being omitted or just mentioned briefly in most history books, the 1, 400 year-long Buddhist period has a foundational importance in the history of the Maldives.

The first time Mellitus is mentioned in history is in the letters of Gregory, and nothing else of his background is known.

In Smith's 1832 history, he said he was visited by " an angel of the Lord ", who mentioned the Book of Mormon prophet " Moroni " as the last engraver of the golden plates ; however, Smith's account did not say whether or not the angel was referring to himself as Moroni.

They are mentioned over 250 times, the majority in the Deuteronomistic history ( the series of " history " books from Joshua to 2 Kings ), and are depicted as the archenemies of the Israelites, a serious and recurring threat before being subdued by David.

It was not until the 1960s that the Scopes trial began to be mentioned in the history textbooks of American high schools and colleges, usually as an example of the conflict between fundamentalists and modernists, and often in sections that also talked about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the South.

Sake is mentioned several times in the Kojiki, Japan's first written history, which was compiled in 712

All battles mentioned in the introduction are ranked among the most costly traditional battles of human history ; in addition there were a few successful ambushes of armies that also ended in their annihilation.

The first recorded secular celebration of the Saints Cyril and Methodius Day as the " Day of the Bulgarian script ", as it is traditionally accepted by Bulgarian history, was held in the town of Plovdiv on 11 May 1851, when a local Bulgarian school was named " Saints Cyril and Methodius ", both acts on the initiative of the prominent Bulgarian educator Nayden Gerov, although an Armenian traveller mentioned his visit at the " celebration of the Bulgarian script " in the town of Shumen on 22 May 1803.

Tanzania has its own distinct African rumba music, termed muziki wa dansi (" dance music ") where names of artists / groups like Tabora Jazz, Western Jazz Band, Morogoro Jazz, Volcano Jazz, Simba Wanyika, Remmy Ongala, Marijani Shaabani, Ndala Kasheba, NUTA JAZZ, ATOMIC JAZZ, DDC Mlimani Park, Afro 70 & Patrick Balisidya, Sunburst, Tatu Nane and Orchestra Makassy must be mentioned in the history of Tanzanian music.

The events of the riot were long omitted from local and state history ; " The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private.

* In Jules Verne's novel In Search of the Castaways, one of the chapters is set on Tristan da Cunha, and a brief history of the island is mentioned.

Veddas are also mentioned in Robert Knox's history of his captivity by the King of Kandy in the 17th century.

In an alternative history novel by S. M. Stirling, Marching Through Georgia, it is mentioned that Roosevelt retired after his second term and Willkie became his successor as President.

Thirteenth-century Moroccan author Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi, mentioned the battle in his history of the Maghrib, " al-Bayan al-Mughrib fi Akhbar al-Maghrib.

When Linda Evangelista mentioned to Vogue that " we don ’ t wake up for less than $ 10, 000 a day ", she may have been playfully pretending the role of an up-scale union representative, but the 1990 comment became the most notorious quote in modeling history.

A tiny fishing town of 200 people until 1958, Nouakchott was little mentioned during pre-colonial and colonial history.

Perugia was an Umbrian settlement but first appears in written history as Perusia, one of the 12 confederate cities of Etruria ; it was first mentioned in Q. Fabius Pictor's account, utilized by Livy, of the expedition carried out against the Etruscan league by Fabius Maximus Rullianus in 310 or 309 BC.