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RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The International History Project The Reconstruction Period, an Overview (1865-77) Reconstruction was a period in U.S. history during and after the American Civil War in which attempts were made to solve the political, social, and econ...

THE ARTS Various Author Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Paintings and power shovels, sonatas and submarines, dramas and dynamos--they all have one thing in common. They are fashioned by people. They are artificial, in contrast to everything that is natural--plants, animals, minerals. The average 20th-centu...

Ancient Rome From its founding to decline "Remember, Roman, that it is for thee to rule the nations. This shall be thy task, to impose the ways of peace, to spare the vanquished, and to tame the proud by war." The accounts of the regal period have come down overlaid with such a mass of myth and lege...

World War One, Nations Involved Austria-Hungary Declared war on Serbia .........July 28, 1914Declared war on Russia ........Aug 6, 1914Declared war on Belgium ......Aug 28, 1914Declared war on Portugal ......March 15, 1916BelgiumRefused German ultimatum demanding permission for German troops to cro...

A History of Ancient Greece Religions Of GreeceAuthor: Foot Moore, GeorgeDate: 1913Religion In Early GreeceThe Aegaean Civilisation - The Hellenic Migrations - Prehellenic andGreek Religion - The Land - The Gods - Zeus - Artemis - Apollo - Hermes -Athena - Aphrodite - Hera - Hephaistos - Ares - Othe...

Heinrich Schliemann Youth and early career Schliemann was the son of a poor pastor. A picture of Troy in flames in a history book his father had given him when he was seven years old remained in his memory throughout his life and sustained his fervent belief in the historical foundations of the Home...

Mesopotamia The International History Project Date: 2003 Mesopotamia is a region, not a country. The emergence of Mesopotamian civilization The Late Neolithic Period and the Chalcolithic Period. Between about 10,000 BC and the genesis of large permanent settlements, the following stages of developme...

England Under Mary. History Of EnglandAuthor: Dickens, CharlesThe Duke of Northumberland was very anxious to keep the young king'sdeath a secret, in order that he might get the two princesses into his power.But the Princess Mary, being informed of that event as she was on her way toLondon to see her...

Recognition Of The Independence Of CubaAuthor: VariousDate: 1898 Recognition Of The Independence Of Cuba[The following resolution not only recognized the independence of Cuba,but authorized the levying of war upon Spain in order to force upon thatcountry a similar recognition. The resolution was pas...

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A History of England Bede: Conversion of England The Arrival in Kent of the missionaries sent By Gregory the Great (597) In the year of our Lord 582, Maurice, the fifty-fourth emperor from Augustus, ascended the throne and reigned twenty-one years. In the tenth year of his reign, Gregory, a man reno...

Evolution Of The Dogeship In Venice Author: Hazlitt, William Carew The Lombards and Venice 697 The early authentic history of Venice is intimately connected with that of the Lombards, of whom the first mention is made by Paterculus, the Roman historian, who wrote during the first quarter of the fir...