North and South, left the comforts of home to care for the wounded. Hospital conditions were often so bad that many volunteer nurses quit soon after beginning. After the war, Kate Cumming, a nurse who traveled with the Army of Tennessee, published an account of her experience. She included...
Library of Congress. *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.* I. Introduction II. The Election of 1860 and Secession III. A War for Union 1861-1863 IV. War for Emancipation 1863-1865 V. Conclusion VI. Primary Sources VII. Reference...
US History II (American Yawp) The Twenties Search for: Culture WarFor all of its cultural ferment, however, the 1920s were also a difficult time for radicals and immigrants and anything “modern.” Fear of foreign radicals led to the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two ...
US History II (American Yawp) World War II Search for: Women and World War IIPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration had encouraged all able-bodied American women to help the war effort. He considered the role of women in the war critical for American victory and the public...
“in fact as well as in name;” a policy the majority of American people enthusiastically endorsed. What exactly “neutrality” meant in a world of close economic connections, however, prompted immediate questions the United States was not yet adequately prepared to answer. Ties to the British ...
The American Civil War, the bloodiest in the nation’s history, resulted in approximately 750,000 deaths. The war touched the life of nearly every American as military mobilization reached levels never seen before or since. The vast majority of northerners went to war to preserve the Union, bu...
Test of the tactical nuclear weapon “Small Boy” at the Nevada Test Site, July 14, 1962. National Nuclear Security Administration, #760-5-NTS. *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.* I. Introduction II. Political, Economic, and ...
“in fact as well as in name,” a policy the majority of American people enthusiastically endorsed. It was unclear, however, what “neutrality” meant in a world of close economic connections. Ties to the British and French proved strong, and those nations obtained far more loans and ...
No way, my friends. The American people are not going to go back to the discredited liberalism of the 1960s and the failed liberalism of the 1970s, no matter how slick the package in 1992. … The presidency, my friends, is also an office that Theodore Roosevelt called America’s “bul...