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The American Civil War, Joshua Lawrence ChamberlainEdited by: Robert Guisepi, 2002 Excerpts From Chamberlain's WritingsA Brief BiographyBy Charles CalhounJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born Sept. 8, 1828, in Brewer, Maine, the eldest of five children. Facing the much larger city of Bangor across th...

The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Note To Book IVThe story of Cava, daughter of Count Julian, whose seduction by Roderic,the last Gothic king, impelled her father to invite the Moors into Spain,enters largely into the cycle of Castilian romance and into the graven...

The Elamites Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The Iranian Plateau did not experience the rise of urban, literate civilization in the late 4th and early 3rd millennia on the Mesopotamian pattern but the lowland Khuzestan did. It was the Elamite Civilization. Geographically, Elam included more than Khuzestan...

Ancient Mauritania Herodotus: The Histories, c. 430 B.C., Book IV.42-43: For my part I am astonished that men should ever have divided Libya, Asia, and Europe as they have, for they are exceedingly unequal. Europe extends the entire length of the other two, and for breadth will not even (as I think...

The United States Congress The Senate The U. S. Senate is one of the two houses of the legislature of the United States, established in 1789 under the Constitution. Each state elects two senators for six-year terms, the terms of about one-third of the Senate membership expiring every two years. The...

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...

Ancient Rome Letter Home of a Roman "University" Student, 44 BCE 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 (...

The American Civil War, Confederate States of America Edited by: Robert Guisepi The Confederate States of America was also called the CONFEDERACY and during the American Civil War, composed the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860-61, carrying on all the affairs of a...

Manifest Destiny History World International 2004 Edited By: R. A. Guisepi In July 1845, amidst all the agitation over getting Texas into the Union, editor John L. O'Sullivan of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review wrote an editorial in which he denounced other nations who had "the avow...

A History of Ancient Greece The country which is now called Hellas was not regularly settled in ancient times. The people were migratory, and readily left their homes whenever they were overpowered by numbers. There was no commerce, and they could not safely hold intercourse with one another either...

Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal At Zama And Subjugates Carthage Author: Livy Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal At Zama And Subjugates Carthage B.C. 202 Introduction Sprung from a colony of Tyre, Carthage, rounded about B.C. 800, rapidly developed, through a wonderful system of colonization, int...

The United States Of America Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi This is the story of how the American Republic developed from colonial beginnings in the 16th century, when the first European explorers arrived, until modern times."We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more per...