From President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the idea of life on Mars, check out these book and video recommendations based on what happened in history this week!
March 9, 1776: Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations, a revolutionary and later fundamental treatise on economics.
The Wealth of Nations
On the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
March 10, 241 BC: The First Punic War, the greatest naval conflict of ancient times, ends with a Roman victory over the Carthaginian fleet.
Taken at the Flood
The Sea & Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
The Punic Wars (DVD)
March 11, 1811: The anti-automation Luddite movement begins as displaced textile workers riot in Nottingham, destroying the machinery at their former workplace.
Blood in the Machine
The Technology Trap
March 12, 1933: The newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation on the radio in the first of his informal "fireside chats."
FDR, the New Deal years, 1933-1937 : A History
Franklin D. Roosevelt : A Political Life
America 1933
March 13, 1855: American astronomer Percival Lowell, who will popularize the idea of life on Mars through his observation of canal-like features on its surface, is born.
The Martians
The Sirens of Mars
Seeing in the Dark
IMAGES:
'Muir portrait' of economist Adam Smith, c 1800.
The Naval Battle Near Ecnomus (256 BC) by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, c 1763
Franklin Roosevelt About to Deliver His First Fireside Chat, 1933