With the growth of commerce, parliaments, and international relations, politics and diplomacy were added to such chronicles of royal and princely doings.
Andrew Nagorski has written an entertaining chronicle of the views of Americans in Germany during the interwar years until Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in 1941.
As you journey through the museums, you are not just an observer but a participant in this grand narrative, a traveler voyaging through the annals of time.
The name has disappeared in the hundred and fifty years since Bartram's chronicle, and even the old-timers call them only " painters" or " panter-cats" .
The first is the invention of writing, which alone gives human nature the power of transmitting, without alteration, its laws, its contracts, its annals, and its discoveries.