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Thomas Paine: Written by: Irving Brant: Member, Advisory Board, James Madison Papers, University of Chicago. Council Member, Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1959–62. Author of James Madison (6 vol.) and others Small, wiry Thomas Paine was the "firebrand of the American Revolution." ...

Nathaniel Banks Of the 14 Union officers who received the Thanks of Congress during the Civil War, Nathaniel P. Banks was the least entitled. Serving under five different party labels during his political career, he rose from a childhood job in a cotton mill in his native Massachusetts-which earned ...

The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke ...

Sumerian Culture Before the Sumerians appeared on the land, it had been occupied by a non-Semitic people, referred to as Ubaidians. Their name comes from the village of Al Ubaid, in which their remains were first found by archaeologists. The Ubaidians settled the region between 4500 and 4000 BC. The...

Sumerian Timeline Fifth millennium: Early developments in Sumer Fourth millennium: Protoliterate period Third millennium: Rival kings & periods of unification includes Early Dynastic, Sargonic, & Ur III periods Second millennium's first half: Ascendancy of Amorite dynasties of Isin, then Lar...

Battle Of Bannockburn Author: Lang, Andrew Battle Of Bannockburn 1314 After the submission of Scotland in 1303, at the end of Wallace's heroic struggle, Edward I undertook to complete the union of that kingdom with England. "But the great difficulty," says a historian, "in dealing with the Scots was...

Ancient Carthage Author: Rollin, Charles Part Two The Carthaginians were not discouraged by their late disaster, but continued their enterprises on Sicily. Mago, their general, and one of the suffetes, lost a great battle, in which he was slain. The Carthaginian chiefs demanded a peace, which was gr ...

FLOOD LEGENDS In the traditions of most ancient civilizations there can be found a legend concerning a flood of such enormous proportions that it is believed to have covered the whole Earth. Such was the destructive force of this flood that few land animals and plants survived it. For readers in Wes...

Exploits And Death Of William Wallace, The "Hero Of Scotland" Author: Scott, Sir Walter Exploits And Death Of William Wallace, The "Hero Of Scotland"1297 - 1305 When the granddaughter and sole heiress of King Alexander III of Scotland was betrothed, in her sixth year, 1288, to the son of Edward I of...

The Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine, was the fruition of early American policy. There had long been a deep-seated conviction on the part of the people of the United States that the opportunities of a hard-won freedom would be threatened by the ambitions of European powers and that the aims of th...

World War Two, MUSSOLINI, Benito (1883-1945) Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 Driven by the spirit of conflict, Benito Mussolini was many things during his turbulent life--teacher, laborer, editor, soldier, politician, and revolutionary. Conflict, ambition, and the desire for power brought hi...

John Buford(1826-1863) Within six months of his having played a key role in the opening of the battle of Gettysburg, cavalryman John Buford was dead of typhoid fever. The Kentucky-born soldier had moved to Illinois before being appointed to West Point. Graduating in 1848 he was posted to the dragoo...