On August 19, 1995, The Globe and Mail reported an attention-grabbing incident. Nazrul Bhuiyan, an honest Bangladeshi journalist who wrote articles exposing the military-run Bangladeshi government corruption, was no longer safe in his country. Consequently, in 1989, with his wife and four children, Bhuiyan sought refugee status in Toronto, Canada. Realizing that 10,000 Bangladeshis already in Canada...
In a letter from R. Emmett Martin to his wife, one can see the content, yet suffering state of mind that most Confederate soldiers were in during the days following the Seven Days Battle. Soldiers wanted to be cheerful as they had just won a battle, but were seemingly unable to muster that emotion because of the losses they endured. The Seven Days Battle was technically a Confederate victory. However,...
Mattie J. Jackson wrote her story down after she has achieved her freedom in her late teenage years and published the booklet in 1866 in Lawrence, MA in order to raise money for her education. She had a restless childhood with many ups and downs due to constant changes of location with and without her family members. Actually it is more her family’s story, which she tells it in a very personal but...