Tag: world history

The American Civil War, Belle Boyd (1843 - 1900) Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 One of the most famous of Confederate spies, Belle Boyd served the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Born in Martinsburg-now part of West Virginia-she operated her spying operations from her fathers hotel in F...

World War One, The Marne At the end of August 1914, the three armies of the German invasion's northern wing were sweeping south towards Paris. The French 5th and 6th Armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were in retreat. General Alexander von Kluck, commander of the German Ist Army, was o...

Literature of the Holocaust and Anne Frank The publication of 'Het Achterhuis' (The House Behind) in 1947 made readers intimate confidantes of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who spent two years hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Translated into English as 'The Diary of a Young Girl' in 1952...

Persia The Rise of Persia Under Cyrus II Author: Grote, George The ruling dynasty of the Persians settled in Fars in southwestern Iran (possibly the Parsumash of the later Assyrian records) traced its ancestry back to an eponymous ancestor, Haxamanish, or Achaemenes. There is no historical evidence ...

The Origin And Progress Of TragedyAuthor: Rollin, CharlesDate: 1731The Origin And Progress Of Tragedy Poets Who Excelled In It At Athens; Aeschylus, Sophocles, And EuripidesThere had been many tragic and comic poets before Thespis; but as theyhad made no alteration in the original rude form of this ...

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...

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

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Author: Jewsbury, Lewis Date: 1992 The Agora The Agora in ancient Greek cities was an open space that served as a meeting ground for various activities of the citizens. The name, first found in the works of Homer, connotes both the assembly of th...

Ancient Rome Caesar Conquers Gaul 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) "Reme...

A History of England England Under The Good Saxon, Alfred Author: Dickens, Charles Chapter III Alfred the Great was a young man three-and-twenty years of age when he became king. Twice in his childhood he had been taken to Rome, where the Saxon nobles were in the habit of going on journeys which ...

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 (...

VIETNAM WAR STATISTICS IN UNIFORM AND IN COUNTRY... Vietnam Vets: 9.7% of their generation.9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the Vietnam Era (Aug. 5, 1964-May 7, 1975).8,744,000 GIs were on active duty during the war (Aug 5, 1964 - March 28, 1973).3,403,100 (Including 514,30...