The present is a time frame that is usually happening at the moment. For example, 1850 is the past, 2017 is the present, and 2037 is the future.
the south had slavery and the north had ended slavery.
"c. Merchants and scholars exported classical Greek and Latin texts printed in Venice and contemporary works such as Machiavellis The Prince and Castigliones The Book of the Courtier" was not a way in which Renaissance ideas spread beyond Italy, since it was not in their best interest to do so.
j.p. Morgan went to DC to call a place home