After the United States entered World War I in 1917, Camp Hancock was built near Augusta, Georgia as a training site for U.S. troops. Camp Hancock was named after Civil War general and native Pennsylvanian Winfield Scott Hancock. According toVeteran Voices Military Research, “Camp Hancock was...
From Wikipedia: the image of Charles F. Gunther On Wabash Ave – prison behind the castle front Posted in Aftermath, American Culture, Civil War prisons, Postbellum Society, Veterans | Tagged Charles Frederick Gunther, Chicago Illinois, Libby Prison, Libby Prison Museum, The Rose Douglas | Lea...
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy declared war on the United States and the Second World War was on. After learning from its mistakes, by late 1942 the country was on the offensive in all theaters and supplying the Allies with the tons of materials they needed to win the war. The war ended...
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George Elliot pronounces, “it’s theculinary civil war, North vs South” (S1E13). If the metaphor of battle isn’t masculinizing enough, an entire episode in Season 3 is set against the backdrop of the U.S. military—specifically, the U.S. Marines. As a deeply gendered institution,...
Pickett’s Charge. at Gettysburg, taken from “Hancock at Gettysbug” by Thure de Thulstrup, Restoration by Adam Cuerden. (wikipedia commons) This July is the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, 1-3 July 1863. This is the iconic battle of the US Civil war. Not only was it ...
[citation needed] During the war, Native American towns were often[when?] among the first to be attacked by patriot militias, sometimes[when?] without regard to which side the inhabitants espoused.[citation needed] One of the most fundamental effects of the war on Native American women was ...
“The Howling Stormis…a necessary volume for Civil War collections.”–Choice Co-winner of the 2020 Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award. “Noe both demonstrates the varied effects of weather and climate on specific campaigns and battles, and synthesizes their impact on the military ...
The civil rights movement led to the replacement of these ethnic quotas with per-country limits. Since then, the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has quadrupled. Research suggests that immigration to the United States is beneficial to the US several aspects, especia...
That’s because if “history” is something that has happened, which events, effects and outcomes are known and accounted for, then I’m living, along with others born on the tail-end of the Baby Boom, the struggle for race equality right now. Maybe the “Civil Rights Era” references ...