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- 1351: The Yellow Wallpaper: Going Crazy
- ... ed. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Symbolism. Cumberland House: Hertfordshire, 1996 Cunningham, Iain and Homes, Douglas “Sensory Descriptions in the yellow wallpaper.” 1997. *http//www.english.ucla.edu/mcgraw/wallpaper/senses.htm* (02 march 1999) DiYanni, Robert “Literature reading fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay”ed.4, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “ The Yellow Wallpaper” New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1997. 291-302
- 1352: The First Battle Of Bull Run
- ... A little more that one year later another important battle was fought in the same place. On August 29, 1862 the Second Battle of Bull Run was fought and resulted in another Southern victory. General Robert E. Lee defeated Union General McClellan. REFERENCES Civil War.com, 1999 New American History of the Civil War, Bruce Celtan, 19996 World Book Encyclopedia
- 1353: The Beginning of a Journey
- ... the expedition would offer an unprecedented chance to bring back data on the geography of the western half of the American continent. Thus, before commencing the expedition, Lewis learned how to make celestial observations from Robert Patterson, a mathematician, and Andrew Ellicott, the foremost American geographer and surveyor of his day. Lewis chose a former army comrade, 32-year-old William Clark, to be co-leader of the expedition. Clark was ...
- 1354: The Civil War Campaign of 1862
- ... of 1862 During the American Civil War, successful Confederate campaign June–July 1862 to drive back Union forces threatening Richmond, Virginia. The success of the campaign was largely due to the tactical initiatives of General Robert E Lee, a military commander and an adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and it established his reputation as a military strategist. Two Union armies were advancing on Richmond: one of about 100,000 troops ...
- 1355: Progressivism and The Progressive Era
- ... support came from many different groups. Progressives came from both major parties, as well as from minor or third parties. Important political leaders in the movement included Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and Governors Robert La Follette, Charles Evans Hughes, and Hiram Johnson. Support came from the farm, because the farmers wanted their problems to be recognized. Support came from artists and writers, who wrote stories about social ills. These ...
- 1356: The Iron Horse: The Impact Of Railroads On 19th Century America
- ... on the train was an inexpensive way for the common man or woman to explore the country or perhaps start a new life out West. After a trip from the Atlantic to Pacific by rail , Robert Louis Stevenson once said: "not only I , but all passengers on board threw off their sense of dirt and neat and wilderness, and bawled like school boys, and thronged with shining eyes upon the platform ...
- 1357: The Sixties - Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- ... hotheads would set the south to boiling again. More confrontation would mean more bloodshed, more racial polarization, further jeopardizing Kennedy’s standing in the south. As soon as the Freedom Ride process would quell, therefore, Robert Kennedy went to work persuading the major civil rights groups to shift from the direct action to voter registration. It was a tempting proposition, this alliance of convenience—the Kennedy Democrats stood to gain, but ...
- 1358: The Presidents' Decisions During The Civil War
- ... newspaper which commented on the need of the Southern Confederacy to make a bold attack on Fort Sumter or forfeit the confidence of its citizens. Yet at the same time others were heedful such as Robert Toombs, the Confederate Secretary of State, who indicated to Davis that an attack on Fort Sumter would lead to a great war among the states and would assuredly result in the collapse of the Confederacy ...
- 1359: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
- The History of the Ku Klux Klan The original Klan was organized in Tennessee in 1865 by former Confederate army officer Jonathan B Frost, he gave their society a name adapted from the Greek word kuklos. The Klan attempted to destroy the reconstructed governments that came into power in the southern states in 1867. The Klan was vary committed ...
- 1360: The Battle of Gettysburg
- ... which the inadequacies of their manufacturing capacity and transportation facilities doomed them to defeat. The Army of the Potomac, under the Union general George Gordon Meade, numbered about 85,000; the Confederate army, under General Robert E. Lee, numbered about 75,000. After the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2 to 4, an important victory for the Confederates, Lee divided his army into three corps, commanded by three lieutenant generals: James ...
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