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Jozo Tomasevich (1908 – October 15, 1994) was an American economist and historian whose speciality was the economic and social history of Yugoslavia. He was born in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, then part of Austria-Hungary. In the mid-1930s, he worked at the National Bank of Yugoslavia in Belgrade and published three well-received books on Yugoslavian economics. In 1938, he moved to the United States as the recipient of a Rockefeller fellowship and conducted research at Harvard University before joining the academic staff of Stanford University. In 1948, he joined the staff at San Francisco State College, where he researched and taught for twenty-five years until his retirement in 1973. Tomasevich began writing on Yugoslavia in World War II – War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941–1945. He wrote two parts of a three-volume series before his death. The third volume, on the Yugoslav Partisans, remains unpublished despite being 75-percent complete at his death. (Full article...)

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1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces captured Glasgow, Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Price's Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later.
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Helen Hunt Jackson (October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of the improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her popular novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause. Commercially successful, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times, with readers liking its romantic and picturesque qualities more than its political content. The novel was so popular that it attracted many tourists to Southern California who wanted to see places from the book. This albumen print of Jackson was taken in around 1884 and is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

Photograph credit: Charles F. Conly; restored by Adam Cuerden

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