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- 791: Gettysburg
- ... Adolph von Steinwehr in reserve on Cemetery Hill south of Gettysburg, Howard rushed the rest of his winded men, who had come into Gettysburg on the run, to meet a new threat from Lieutenant General Richard Ewell sweeping down from the North of town. A. Wilson Greene makes a compelling argument defending Howard's strategic performance in his essay, "From Chancellorsville to Cemetery Hill." Howard's XI Corps deployed north of ...
- 792: The Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II
- ... Strangelove. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Ginsberg, Allen. "Nagasaki Days" and "Plutonium Ode." Collected Poems: 1947 1980. Ed. Allen Ginsberg. New York: Harper and Row, 1984. 699-705. Gleick, James. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. New York :Vintage Books, 1992. Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Miles, Barry. Ginsberg: A Biography. New York: Harper Perennial, 1989. Stone, Albert E. Literary Aftershocks: American Writers, Readers and the ...
- 793: The Industrial Revolution
- ... cotton industry was the first to be fully mechanized. The crucial inventions were John Jay’s flying shuttle (invented in 1733 but not widely used until the 1760’s), James Hargreaves’s spinning jenny (1765), Richard Arkwright’s water frame (1769), Samuel Crompton’s mule (1779), and Edmund Cartwright’s machine loom (1765, but delayed in its general use) (Clarke 13). The first factories were driven by water, but James Watt ...
- 794: The Turning Point of the Civil War
- ... payoff was possible. By creating 3 corps from his 75,000 men, Lee made it possible to accomplish more tasks in the same amount of time. The three commanders, A.P. Hill, James Longstreet, and Richard Ewell, were, in theory, to be supported by the strategic reconnaissance of Jeb Stuart's cavalry, a role in which he failed dismally in the days and weeks leading up to Gettysburg. Lee decided to ...
- 795: The Manhattan Project
- ... killing an additional 50,000-80,000 instantly. The war was soon over, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States. Bibliography Brodie, Bernard, and Brodie, Fawn. From Crossbow to H-Bomb (Dell, 1962). Friedman, Col. Richard S., and others. Advanced Technology Warfare (Harmony Books, 1985). Hogg, Ian, ed. Jane's Military Review (Janes Publishing, 1986). Hogg, Ian. The Weapons That Changed the World (Arbor House, 1986).
- 796: American Exceptionalism
- ... turns to delirium." Individualism is often considered to be a particularly good quality in the eyes of those who observe it in others, as is a general understanding of equality. To quote well known historian Richard Hofstadter, "it has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies, but to be one." He is speaking of the strong ideological sense that binds America together as a nation, as individuals within ...
- 797: The Battle at Chancellorsville
- ... to the west while the army corps secured Getmanna and Ely's fords. The next day these columns reunited at Chancellorsville. Lee reacted to the news of the Federals in the Wilderness by sending General Richard H. Anderson's division to investigate. Finding the Northerners massing in the woods around Chancellorsville; Anderson commenced the construction of earthworks at Zoan Church. Confederate reinforcements under Stonewall Jackson marched to help block the Federal ...
- 798: The Slave Trade and Its Effects on Early America
- ... Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America. New York: Schocken Books, 1969. Goodman, Walter. Black Bondage: the Life of Slaves in the South. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. Howard, Richard. Black Cargo. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. McCague, James. The Long Bondage 1441-1815. Illinois: Garrard Publishing Company, 1972. Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution. New York: Borzoi Books, 1982.
- 799: The Turbulent Sixties
- ... Kent State University, killing four and injuring 9 (Encarta). These actions led to many college students jointly rebelling against sending troops to Cambodia, and an even larger number called for the impeachment of then President Nixon (Anderson 350). In 1967, in New York, roughly 3000 rioters pelted police with bottles, stones, and eggs. In this time of turmoil, Bob Dylan again wrote another song which would forever define the plights of ...
- 800: How the 60's Changed Our Lives
- ... American Ordeal. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1990 O'Neill, William. American Society Since 1945. New York: New York Times Co., 1969 Zappa, Frank. The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York: Poseidon Press, 1989 Brautigan, Richard. Trout Fishing in America. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1967
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