Civil War
epub |eng | 2019-12-12 | Author:Frederick Douglass [Douglass, Frederick]

CHAPTER VII. TRIUMPHS AND TRIALS. New experiences — Painful disagreement of opinion with old friends — Final decision to publish my paper in Rochester — Its fortunes — Change in ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-17 | Author:Jean Harvey Baker [Baker, Jean Harvey]

BY July 1862 Mary Lincoln had sufficiently recovered to move to the Soldiers’ Home, the presidential retreat on a wooded hill three miles from the White House in the northern ...
( Category: American Civil War February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Don H. Doyle [Doyle, Don H.]

WHILE SLIDELL WORKED HIS WAY INTO THE INNER CIRCLE OF FRENCH power, the Confederacy’s continental public relations campaign was still awaiting direction from Edwin De Leon. The Southern ambassador to ...
( Category: History & Theory February 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Megan Kate Nelson

* * * Clark had been back from the Mogollon expedition for two months when a letter arrived in Santa Fe, detailing the discoveries that Joseph Reddeford Walker’s adventurers had ...
( Category: American Civil War February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:Tom Huntington

The university has a third statue, one of young Ben striding into Philadelphia in 1723, at Weightman Hall on Thirty-third Street, near Locust. The work of R. Tait McKenzie, the ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic February 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Stanley Harrold

The circumstances in which antislavery politicians acted on behalf of the Republican Party and abolitionists sought to shape those actions changed during the succeeding months as a result of a ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-06 | Author:Brian R. Dirck

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, I have no taste for war; My joy is not in fire and fight, In cannon’s roar and bullet’s flight, And nasty pools ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:Holt, Michael F. [Holt, Michael F.]

Chapter 17 “Fillmore…Is Precisely the Man for the Occasion” “MY ONLY OBJECT IS TO save the country [and] to save the Whig party, if possible,” Millard Fillmore assured Hamilton Fish ...
( Category: Political Parties January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Silber, Nina;

5 LOOK AWAY! DIXIE’S LANDED! AFTER WRITING the blockbuster novel of the decade, Margaret Mitchell adjusted her schedule to the overwhelming volume of letters and inquiries that crossed her desk. ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:David T. Gleeson [Gleeson, David T.]

CHAPTER 6 Another “Lost Cause” The Irish after the Confederacy In the commemoration of the Confederacy after the Civil War, the Irish in the South rediscovered a Confederate spirit they ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies December 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-10 | Author:Allen C. Guelzo

By 1870, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming all had territorial governments, and Kansas, Nevada, and Nebraska had been admitted to the Union as states. The wartime Homestead ...
( Category: Comparative Politics December 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-25 | Author:Michael Grant

CHAPTER 23 Problems at Home SAM TEMPLE HAD never been the sort of person to spy on others. He was certainly not the sort of person who would spy on ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:John W. Primomo

I am lying mortally wounded the doctors think, but my mind & heart are at peace. Jesus Christ is my all-sufficient savior. I go to him. God bless & keep ...
( Category: American Civil War November 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-14 | Author:Noah Andre Trudeau

This morning Gen. Grant reports Petersburg evacuated; and he is confident Richmond also is. He is pushing forward to cut off if possible, the retreating army. I start to him ...
( Category: American Civil War November 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Jennifer McSpadden

Chapter 6 Notes 1. W. H. H. Terrell, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 vols. (Indianapolis: A. H. Connor, 1865–69), 4:49. 2. Ford Family History ...
( Category: Civil War June 3,2017 )