Tag: world history

Calvinism Civilizations Past And Present "Here I Take My Stand" The Second Reformation While Anglicanism and Lutheranism were developing as state churches, other forms of Protestantism were emerging in western Europe. Calvinism was the most popular and most conservative of these, but there were ma...

American Civil War: Submarines The U.S. made its next significant attempt at submarine warfare during the Civil War (1861–65). Faced with the Union Navy's superior strength and a blockade of Southern ports, the Confederate States turned to unconventional methods, including submarines, to gain an edg...

A History of Ancient Greece Philosophy Of HistoryBook: Part II. The Greek World.Author: Hegel, G.W.F.Date: 1857 Translation: Sibree, J., M.A.Section I. The Elements Of The Greek Spirit.Greece is [that form of] the Substantial [i.e. of Moral and IntellectualPrinciple,] which is at the same time indiv...

The following statements were extracted from essays written by high school seniors and College freshmen. READ CAREFULLY and learn. Not one letter or word has been changed. These are exactly as originally written and there are NO typos. The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies. They lived...

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard(1818-1893) The services of "The Hero of Fort Sumter," Pierre G.T. Beauregard, were not utilized to their fullest due to bad blood between the Confederate general and Jefferson Davis. The native Louisianan had graduated second in the 1838 class at West Point. There h...

Braxton Bragg b. March 22, 1817, Warrenton, N.C., U.S.d. Sept. 27, 1876, Galveston, Texas Confederate officer in the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) whose successes in the West were dissipated when he failed to follow up on them.After graduating in 1837 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., B...

The Middle Ages Political Organization In The Early Middle Ages The centralization of the Carolingian state was not long a source of political stability in western Europe in the early Middle Ages. In those areas where the Carolingian Empire had little impact, and even in the regions which were at s...

A History of Ancient Greece Sparta In ancient Greece, the great rival of Athens was Sparta. The city-state and its surrounding territory were located on the Peloponnesus, a peninsula southwest of Athens. Sparta (also called Lacedaemon) was the capital of the district of Laconia. From the vigorous i...

James Longstreet b. Jan. 8, 1821, Edgefield District, S.C., U.S.d. Jan. 2, 1904, Gainesville, Ga. Longstreet was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1842), he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded from ...

During the first half of the sixteenth century, while Portugal was acquiring a commercial empire in Africa and Asia , its powerful neighbor and rival Spain was acquiring a very different but equally lucrative empire in the Americas . Spain 's colonial empire was organized around two great cities. In...

Ancient Rome Spartacus Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed by permission) "Remember, Roman...

By Plutarch (died 30 B.C.E.) The grandfather of Antony was the famous pleader, whom Marius put to death for having taken part with Sylla. His father was Antony, surnamed of Crete, not very famous or distinguished in public life, but a worthy good man, and particularly remarkable for his liberality, ...