A few years ago, a party of American tourists were going round one of the battlefields (战场) of the Civil War with a guide who came from one of the Southern States. At each place, the guide told the tourists stirring(激动的) stories about how a few Southern soldiers had conquered(攻占...
More than 20,000 Union Army soldiers returned from the American Civil War missing an arm or a leg. For decades and even generations after the war's end, Americans' image of the Civil War veteran often included an empty sleeve or pant leg. Although scholars of the Reconstruction and Gilded...
A few years ago, a party of American tourists were going round one of the battlefields (战场) of the Civil War with a guide who came from one of the Southern States. At each place, the guide told the tourists stirring(激动的) stories about how a few Southern soldiers had conquered(攻占...
The kid playing with a soldier, or the teenagers spraying the soldiers; these are all examples of the kind of heartwarming resistance that I think Philip admired. I think his images in Northern Ireland serve as a reminder of how quickly normal people can find themselves living in a war ...
Brady was also the first person to take pictures of a war.His 1862 Civil War pictures showed dead soldiers and destroyed cities.They made the war seem more real and more terrible. In 1861, Scottish physicist James Maxwell showed a color photography system involving three black and white photogr...
BBC: Soldiers fire on protestors in Derry, killing 13 (January 1972) A French photographer recalls Bloody Sunday (January 1972) Alana Burke recalls the events of Bloody Sunday (January 1972) The Guardian: post-Bloody Sunday editorial (January 1972) ...
Water Tribe Civil WarSee also: Water Tribe Civil WarNorthern Water Tribe soldiers defended the Southern spirit portal against Team Avatar during the Unalaq Crisis.In 171 AG, under Unalaq's leadership, the Northern Water Tribe's Navy began an invasion of their sister tribe, ostensibly to ...
Soldiers of light and love : northern teachers and Georgia blacks, 1865-1873 Jacqueline Jones, Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980); Linda B. Selleck, Gentle Invaders: Quaker Women Educators and ...
The South had many great military leaders. The leaders were then able to teach the soldiers more than what the North could. The North had a supreme advantage on population. The North had 22 million soldiers and workers to draw from while the south only had 5.5 million to draw from. Anothe...
Ireland's independence was a mess. It caused the Civil War, the destruction of the Public Record Office, partition, a sectarian Catholic state in the South, and a sectarian Protestant state in the North. Certainly you can blame Irish and British unionists for blocking the Home Rule that was...