There is a map, courtesy of Ray Toler of Springdale, Arkansas, of the Ozark area during the Civil War. The map, although crude, gives an excellent overview of the positions of the different battles fought between 1861 to 1865 in the Ozarks. I would highly recommend the use of this map in teaching students about these battles. The map would give students a good perspective of the locations of all the battles. ...
The website that I found had everything that anyone would ever want to know about the Civil War. It has photos from the Gettysburg Address and it also has what Lincoln said in his first inaugural address. It has maps showing all of the battles of the Civil War and the route traveled by both armies...
When the forefathers created the Constitution, they wanted it to unify all of the people that lived in the country. Although they created the Constitution with these noble reasons, the Constitution did not do what it was meant to do. This can be clearly seen during the time of the Civil War. The sep...
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War. It was also the last battle in the Civil War. In this paper I will talk about the movie we watched on the Battle of Gettysburg. Some strengths of watching a movie other than what we got from the...
Mary Boykin Chesnut - A Biography If it hadn't been for that one simple book that wasn't really a book at all, history may never have known Mary Boykin Chesnut. The book in reference is Mrs. Chesnut's "Diary from Dixie". Dixie was a journal from her accounts as a member of the elite of the old so...
Alvin York was born in Pall Mall Tennessee on December 13, 1887, the third of 11 children born to William and Mary York. His Grandfather, Uriah York, was an Army Veteran of the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. The York family scraped out a living on their modest farm and supplemented their ta...
Robert E. Lee Early Years: Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807. He was born in Stratford, Virginia. But after four years he moved from Stratford and moved to Alexandria, Virginia were he spent most of his youth. His father Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, a Revolutionary War hero, alo...
Previous regional independence movements such as the Greek revolt in the Ottoman Empire, division, and division in the Latin American political map, and the British-French Crimean triumph leading to an interest in redrawing Europe along cultural differences, all conspired to make for a time of upheaval and uncertainty about the basis of the nation-state. ...
The Native Americans and Africans Slaves are two prominent groups seen in the Colonial Era with great influence, difficult challenges, and cultures that shaped the colonies into how we see them today. Both, the African Americans and Native Americans were challenged by the hardships of the whites thr...
