To the south of this overlook, from which United Nations and Israeli officers observe the fighting, are the positions of the Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al Qaeda that the U.S...
The officials say the leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delegates authority to his cabinet, or shura council, which includes ministers of war, finance, religious affairs and others. By nightfall, groups of hikers carrying backpacks and long walking sticks made from stripped branches gather at the borderline, preparing to cross north
Civil Rights Timeline
Top 1992 April 29 (Los Angeles, Calif.) The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin
Civil War Bookshelf
http://cwbn.blogspot.com/This is not to single out Jenkins because we often see historians who cite the early information of the OR in preference to the refined data and analysis that come later. The bad news is that nobody is ready to take the first step to clean up the system.The leading Civil War historians will deny there is any problem in our little world
This was an important triumph, because Atlanta was a railroad hub and the industrial center of the Confederacy: It had munitions factories, foundries and warehouses that kept the Confederate army supplied with food, weapons and other goods. (The 10,000 Confederates who were supposed to be guarding it had already fled.) Sherman presented the city of Savannah and its 25,000 bales of cotton to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift.Early in 1865, Sherman and his men left Savannah and pillaged and burned their way through South Carolina to Charleston
Hatton, Soldier (Andy Hall), 1.18.2011: long piece on George Hatton, who served in the USCT; includes a letter regarding in the whipping of slaver William Henry Clapton; many links Do Civil War Reenactments Help or Hinder? (Andy Hall), 1.18.2011: on the recent reenactment of a slave auction in St. Buchanan; Grants notes that once slavery became profitable, no way it would disappear; his musings on why Southerners, most of whom did not own slaves, nonetheless joined the secessionists Simple Images, Complex Realities, (Andy Hall) 1.21.2011: on so-called black Confederates and photo taken Dr
Department of Iowa Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War - Home
The piteous wail of his little children, as they clung to that lifeless form, and called it "father," moved the stoutest hearts to pity, and bathed the seared and bronzed cheek of the veteran soldiers in tears. The bruised and mangled heart of his poor wife, who had so often leaned her head trustingly, like a weary dove, upon his manly bosom, sank beneath the shock, and she swooned away
There was a checkpoint to the north, close to the area controlled by Syrian government forces, from which the deadly short-range rockets could have been launched. On 28 November 2012, Joby Warrick of the Washington Post reported that the previous day rebels near Aleppo had used what was almost certainly a manpad to shoot down a Syrian transport helicopter
The Kentucky Civil War Bugle - Kentucky Civil War Sites List and Map
This state park includes a brick pavilion that encloses the Lincoln Marriage Temple, the cabin where the parents of President Abraham Lincoln were wed on June 12, 1806. Perhaps one of the most misunderstood and important features of the abolitionist movement, the Underground Railroad helped thousands of slaves escape from bondage in the South
The South still lies about the Civil War - Salon.com
Blight was surprised when I told him in an e-mail that as part of my research I planned to visit the 2008 C of C convention in Fredericksburg, Virginia. One postwar author was none other than Alexander Stephens, former vice president of the Confederacy, whose portrayal of the war sounds remarkably like the version you hear from many Southerners and political conservatives today: it was a noble but doomed effort on the part of the South to preserve self-government against federal intrusion, and it had little to do with slavery
July 16, 2015, Thursday News Analysis Syria Increasingly Disintegrates in Crucible of War By ANNE BARNARD No single group can muster enough territory or popularity to win an increasingly fragmented war, or even to negotiate and enforce an eventual peace. July 18, 2015, Saturday British Pilots Have Been Conducting Airstrikes in Syria, Defense Ministry Confirms By DAN BILEFSKY Pilots joined with the American-led coalition to fight the Islamic State, it said, even though Parliament had voted against military action there
Bookmark this site, as you will simply not find this information anywhere else! We have recently completed posting the complete run of Harper's Weekly newspapers from the Civil War
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