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- 1861: John Trumbull
- ... must bring to your attention one of my former students who has applied for admission into your prestigious institute of higher learning, John Trumbull. John was one of my best students in my Advanced Placement American History class. John’s talents spread into many areas such as writing, but the majority of his talent lies in his ability to provide us with a unique view of historic events by capturing them ... just representations of actual historic events, but they are windows into the past. John has a gift in that his paintings, architecture, and writings provide the people with a different and sometimes controversial view of American history, especially the Revolutionary War period. John’s works include paintings of the “Battle of Bunker Hill”, “The Surrender of General Burgoyne”, and “The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia”. In addition, John was ... to execute monumental replicas of some of his Revolutionary War scenes for the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington D.C. These glorious paintings are but a small part of John Trumbull’s contribution to American Society. John has added to our society as an architect, a painter, a writer, and most importantly as a man who wished to share his talent with the world. To better help you understand ...
- 1862: Battle Of The Bulge
- ... division launched an all out attack on five divisions of the U.S. first army. At least 657 light, medium, and heavy guns and Howitzers. As well as 340 multiple-rocket launchers were fired on American positions. We surrendered. Americans were out numbered ten to one in places. They were so badly out numbered that they started abandoning their wounded and having the U.S. band grab weapons and fight. The ... captain of one infantry, sat him on the hood of a jeep placed a gun to his head and drove him around showing him to all the SS soldiers like a trophy. On December 17th American Seventh armored division engaged Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Army at St. Vith. St. Vith was a major road that led to the Meuse River and to Antwerp. The American division was successful in halting the German advance and caused them to take a detour. Which slowed the Germans down and altered the timing of the German attack plan. Bastogne was a strategic position, ...
- 1863: Karl Marx
- ... 1847, a group called the Communist League. At the leagues request, Marx and Engels drew up the Communist Manifesto in 1848. This is one of the most well known works of the pair. Once the Revolution of February 1848 took place, Marx was again banished, except this time from Belgium. He returned to France for the March Revolution, and then traveled to Germany where he published the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, from June 1, 1848 to May 19, 1849. Again Marx was banished from Germany, and again he returned to Paris. After the demonstration ... himself involved in political activity in the 1850's and 1860's with the revival of democratic activities. Most of the important works written by Marx can be summed up by the results of the revolution in "The Class Struggle of France." In these works Marx shows for the first time materialist dialectics to the study of an entire historical period. Marx tells the entire tall of causes, character, and ...
- 1864: Teenage Suicide
- Teenage Suicide The killing of own life intentionally is referred as suicide. Over the past years, American society has been concerned about this issue, especially teenage suicide. The suicide rate among teenagers is not constant for a period of time; it keeps changing over time. Most of the time, the suicide rate ... their kids during checkups. The result showed that more than 66% of the parents being questioned said 29 of the 30 items were important to be discussed with their teenage children. This survey showed that American parents are somehow concerned about suicide among teenagers. This concern is pervasive among American teenagers. In 1993, a national survey of adolescents about their knowledge of, and attitudes toward, youth suicide was made. The survey reulted that 60% of the teenagers reported knowing another teen who had attempted ...
- 1865: Colonial Woman
- Women did not have an easy life during the American Colonial period. Before a woman reached 25 years of age, she was expected to be married with at least one child. Most, if not all, domestic tasks were performed by women, and most domestic goods ... personal lives were becoming less restricted, although the change was occurring at a snail’s pace. Life for the colonial woman was a mix of imprisonment and freedom in their marriages, homes, and in the American Colonial legal system. Women who chose to come to the American Colonies had a 100 percent chance of finding a husband. Women outnumbered men almost six to one. Any woman could be choosy when finding a husband, for countless men tried to woo her into ...
- 1866: Cuban Missile Crisis: The Edge Of War
- ... issue of the missiles in a meeting with the Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, and listened to his comments. Gromyko said that the few Soviet defenses that existed were set up to defend from possible American attack. Later the President was reported saying, "I was dying to confront him with our evidence. It was incredible to sit there and watch the lies coming out of his mouth" (Mills 239). According to recently declassified files in Moscow, Khrushchev had sent over 100 nuclear warheads into the Caribbean island, in case of American attack. Approximately 42,000 Soviet soldiers were ready to launch the nukes within a few hours notice. The Soviet commander in Cuba, General Issa Pliyev, was prepared to use every one of those warheads, should ... proposal. The Commander-in-Chief of the United States ordered the blockade to begin (Mills 242). By Sunday, America's allies knew of the situation, special briefings were given to members of the Organization of American States (OAS), and Congressional leaders were requested to return to Washington. On Monday, President Kennedy addressed the nation. Two letters were delivered to Khrushchev in Moscow, just thirty minutes before Kennedy's address. One ...
- 1867: Maya Angelou 5
- ... everyone suffered. By 1933, nearly one quarter of the workforce had been laid off. By 1934, two fifths of home owners lost their houses, and New York listed 100 deaths from starvation. About 37% of American had irregular eating habits, and generally did not get three meals a day. Only about 8% were getting only one meal a day, and this was not stolid food. Day after day, people lived off ... some of her books are a part of Oprahs cook club. She was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the commission of the International Women s Year and served as a board member of the American Film Institute and as an Administrator in the music department of the University of Ghana. She studied dance with Martha Graham and Drama with Frank Silvera and went on to a career in theatre. She ... of the Arab Observer in Cario. From 1964 to 1966, she was a feature editor of the African Review. Today Maya lectures in the United States and abroad. She is also a Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Through her writings as well as her activism toward the cause of improving conditions for women in Third World Countries (particularly Africa), Maya continues to shed ...
- 1868: The Great Depression
- ... mining. Even the two industries with the most spectacular growth - construction and automobile manufacturing - were contracting in the year before the stock market crash of 1929. About 600 banks a year were failing. Half the American people lived at or below the minimum subsistence level. By the time the stock market crashed, there was a excessive amount of goods on the market, and inventories were three times their normal size. The ... 30 to 40 percent between 1920 and 1929. •Organized labor declines throughout the decade. The United Mine Workers Union will see its membership fall from 500,000 in 1920 to 75,000 in 1928. The American Federation of Labor would fall from 5.1 million in 1920 to 3.4 million in 1929. •"Structural unemployment" enters the nation's vocabulary; as many as 200,000 workers a year are replaced by automatic or semi-automatic machinery. •Over the decade, about 1,200 mergers will swallow up more than 6,000 previously independent companies; by 1929, only 200 corporations will control over half of all American industry. •By the end of the decade, the bottom 80 percent of all income-earners will be removed from the tax rolls completely. Taxes on the rich will fall throughout the decade. •By 1929, ...
- 1869: Dredd Scott Decision
- ... with Marbury, one of only two cases prior to the Civil War that declared a federal law unconstitutional. This case may have also been one of the most, if not the most, controversial case in American history, due simply to the fact that it dealt an explosive opinion on an issue already prepared to erupt - slavery. Thus, many scholars assert that the Dred Scott case may have almost single-handedly ignited the ever growing slavery issue into violence, culminating ultimately into the American Civil War. It effectively brought many abolitionists and anti-slavery proponents, particularly in the North, "over the edge". BACKGROUND Dred Scott was a slave born in Virginia who early in life moved with his owner ... Taney to include the entire black race in such a specific case regarding the freeing of just one slave. There is no doubt that this case was a major influence in the cause of the American Civil War. The North was so outraged with this opinion that it chose to ignore the Court altogether and regard as an almost alien institution. The South, in response to the Northern discontent, attempted ...
- 1870: Mark Twain 2
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens. With the Lampton family ... acceptable in a society without copyrights. When the Journal gained success, Orion refused to print some of Samuel s works. He, however took his writing elsewhere. He wrote for the Carpet-Bag and the Philadelphia American Courier, berating his old town and the Hannibal natives. He signed each work with the initials S.L.C. Orion left town for awhile and gave the duty of editor to Samuel. He quickly took ... themselves. They were most comfortable reading the language they used in public. William Gibson belies that, Twain developed one of the great styles in the English language because he had a firm grasp of the American vernacular (qtd. in Long 205). His letters to the Keokuk Papers in St. Louis proved to be most successful for Clemens. He signed these letters with the pseudonym Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. His narrations made ...
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