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square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...

If a specific shot did not exist, he would create it; if the story was not that intriguing, he would fabricate it. In short, Gard...

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...