Tag: world history

Joshua ChamberlainLying in a hollow, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain writes home to his wife Fanny, describingthe Battle of Sharpsburg... "At about mid night I rode softly along examining our pickets, & whenever the horsestumbled -- whiz-- would come a bullet in the dark. All this morning, & at ...

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Author: William Kehen, PhD. Columbia University 1996 ELECTORAL COLLEGE In the United States presidential election of 1876, the Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, received 4,284,020 votes; the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes received 4,036,572 votes; but Hayes became pres...

World War One, Letter from Edward Luckert Monday - July 22 - 18Dearest: -It does seem as if we are never going to get any rest I know, but still I guess there's a remote chance sometime in the near future.If they wouldn't always give us the hardest work it would be a cinch, but they have never yet f...

The American Civil War, Elizabeth Van Lew (1818 - 1900(?)) Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 The first Union flag to wave over Richmond in four years was raised in 1865 by this famous and effective Union spy. Born into a prominent Richmond family, Elizabeth Van Lew returned from her schooling in Philad...

European Absolutism And Power Politics Introduction Louis XIV (1643-1715) of France is remembered best as a strong-willed monarch who reportedly once exclaimed to his fawning courtiers, "L'etat, c'est moi" (I am the state). Whether or not he really said these words, Louis has been regarded by histor...

World Civilizations: The Origins Of Civilizations The Agrarian Revolution And The Birth Of Civilization The Neolithic Transition With the development of agriculture, humans began to radically transform the environments in which they lived. A growing portion of humans became sedentary cultivators ...

What was it like, that first time under fire? In real battle during the U.S. Civil War? Brothers of the native soil against brothers of the same good earth? Said (or wrote) an officer from Maine sometime after: "The behavior of those who were hit appeared to be singular; and, as there were so many o...

Persia Xerxes Author: Grote, George Xerxes (486-465 BC), Darius' eldest son by Queen Atossa, was born after his father had come to the throne; he had been designated official heir perhaps as early as 498 BC, and while crown prince he had ruled as the King's governor in Babylon. The new king quickly ...

Harpist From UrBetween two mighty riversThe Fertile Crescent expands Hanging Gardens Babel Tower Gates to Eden An old indigenous manCreated a harp of his own Arched bough, silver and gold Lapis lazuli, ivory and pearl Sumerian Queen Shub-AdAsleep in eternal silence The harpist from the Royal Tomb D...

CONGRATULATIONS FROM JEFFERSON DAVISON REDUCING FT. SUMTERDAVIS, JEFFERSON. The actual received telegram, from Jefferson Davis to General P.G. T.Beauregard, Charleston, South Carolina, April 13, 1861. One page, oblong 8vo. On printed"AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY" telegraph stationery. A telegram of th...

Ancient History Sourcebook:Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Domitianus, c. 110 C.E. I. DOMITIAN was born on the ninth day before the Kalends of November of the year when his father was Consul-elect and was about to enter on the office in the following month [October 24, 51 C.E.], in a street of the sixt...

World War One Tragic War And Futile Peace: World War I Edited By: Robert Guisepi 2001 World War I (The Great War) from its beginning to the Armistice including the Marne, Somme, Verdun, gas, trench war, poems and music "What is this war? It is mud, trenches, blood, rats, lice, bombs, pain, barbed wi...