This is how "The American West"--an eight part series executive produced by Robert Redford--begins. With voice overs and reenactments, the show details the beginnings of what becomes a two-front war that General Grant wages from Washington.The credentials of the historians who add their ...
November is National Native American Heritage Month, and we’re proud to share with you more stories as part of our Heroes of History series. Please note that anywhere we use the word “Indian” instead of “Native American” or “Indigenous” is due to historical context. In 1915, the an...
El-Fadel Arbab and Zienab Abaker stand outside their home in Maine with their children after being reunited almost a year after Abaker fled the raging civil war in their native Sudan, but then got stuck in Saudi Arabia waiting for a U.S. visa.Courtesy of El-Fadel Arbab ...
His gift for storytelling translated into that of a narrator of documentaries like Ken Burns’ Civil War.McCullough received the National Book Award for The Path Between the Seas, about the building of the Panama Canal, and Mornings on Horseback, a biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Other best ...
By the time we reach the lesser detailed parts of Harriet’s life (like her time acting as “one of the great heroines of the Civil War,” as described by Thomas B. Allen, who wrote Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent), we’re rushed through a series of caption-delivered factoids before the...
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However, the conflict between the Southern Confederacy and the Northern Union was a civil war. Neither side expected the fighting to last very long – a few weeks or maybe months. Instead, the Civil War lasted four and a half years. ...
Chapter 5, "Transforming Space," looks at Charlotte Forten's journals, written mostly during the Civil War, and William W. Brown's My Southern Home (1880), as indicating a broad reconfiguration of literary space in African American writing that offered new ways for expressing environ- ...
About the Author:Colonel Theodore Ayrault Dodge was a Union officer during theCivil Warand a military historian. His primary writings were on the war and military history, but he also wrote this article,Some American Riders, which appeared in Harper’s Magazine in July, 1891. ...
gardens, also calledwar gardensorfood gardens for defense, are vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in Tacoma during the WORLD CREDIBILITY CRISIS to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by PEAK OIL. These gardens are also considered a civil "morale...