Tag: world history

Sam Watkins Confederate soldier who wrote of his experiences in the American Civil War. The following is an excerpt from 'Company Aytch' A private soldier is but an automaton, a machine that works by the command of a good, bad, or indifferent engineer, and is presumed to know nothing of all these gr...

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, ...

The slavery controversy and the Civil War By the mid-19th century, most white Georgians, like most Southerners, had come to view slavery as economically indispensable to their society. When the Civil War came, most white Southerners, slave owner or not, joined in the defense of their common heritage...

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...

Unforgotten Sons of God They did not know it themselves--those boys of ours whose remembered faces in every home should be cherished symbols of the true, for life or death--what were their lofty deeds of body, mind, heart, soul, on that tremendous day. Unknown--but kept! The earth itself shall be i...

The Great DepressionThe story of the World Wide Great Depression and how it effected the 20th Century The Twentieth Century In World History Book: One-Half Century Of Crisis, 1914-1945 Author: Adas, Michael Date: 1992 The Great Depression The next step in a mounting spiral of international crisis ...

Normandy, D-Day June 6th, 1944 Be strong!We are not here to play, to dream, to drift.We have hard work to do and loads to lift.Shun not the struggle,face it: 'tis God's gift. ********* "Now that it's all over, it seems to me a pure miracle we ever took the beach at all." Ernie Pile "It wasn't a mira...

Holy Roman Empire, TheCareer Of Charlemagne Author:Guizot, Francois P. G."By the sword and the cross," Charlemagne (Charles the Great) became master of Western Europe. It was falling into decay when Charlemagne became joint king of the Franks in 768. Except in the monasteries, people had all but for ...

Latin AmericaEstablishment of Latin American StatesAuthor: Allen PikermenDate: 2002The new nations of Latin America faced a complex of dilemmas thatbequeathed a frustrating century of political instability and foreign economicdomination. Civil wars, revolutions, and regimes came and went with alarmi...

A great task faced Marcus Aurelius when he became the Roman emperor in AD 161, as successor to his uncle, Emperor Antonius Pius. Generations of luxury had made the patricians, or nobles, weak and selfish. The middle class was disappearing, and the working class was being reduced to a state of slaver...

KIERKEGAARD, Soren (1813-55). Neglected in his lifetime, or ridiculed as a dangerous fanatic, the Danish religious philosopher Kierkegaard has come to be regarded in the 20th century as one of the most influential and profound of modern thinkers. He was the most brilliant interpreter of Protestant C...

The Battle of Britain 1940 Groups and Sectors of the RAF Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force was divided into a number of groups and Great Britain was covered by four operational groups in total. 10 Group covered the south-west, 11 Group covered the south-east, 12 Group covered the Midlands whi...