Eyewitness accounts:  before 1800...

before 1800
  
1800-1899
  
1900-1917
  
1918-1947
  
1948-1967
  
1968-2000
  
after 2000
  
jeannine randolph
  
the song of our syrian guest
  

Historical snippets from the last year of this eyewitness period...

1799:  French Revolution ends. Rosetta Stone discovered. George Washington and Patrick Henry die.

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