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  • Atlanta University, Georgia, U.S.
    Jul, 1897
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois left Philadelphia and took a professorship in history and economics at the historically black Atlanta University

    Atlanta University, Georgia, U.S.
    Jul, 1897

    In July 1897, Du Bois left Philadelphia and took a professorship in history and economics at the historically black Atlanta University in Georgia.




  • Present-day Malakand, Pakistan
    Jul, 1897
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill volunteered to join Bindon Blood's Malakand Field Force

    Present-day Malakand, Pakistan
    Jul, 1897

    Churchill volunteered to join Bindon Blood's Malakand Field Force in its campaign against Mohmand rebels in the Swat Valley of north-west India. Blood accepted him on condition that he was assigned as a journalist, the beginning of Churchill's writing career.




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