The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...’s Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader.The American Civil War was sparked when eleven slave states tried to sec... ...e last state to do so, about two months after the Civil War started. The citizens of Scott Cou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/15/Breakin-Up-Is-Hard-To-Do-5-Other-American-Secession-Attempts/(Image credit: Wellcome Images via Wikimedia Commo... ...r was obscured. It was 1864, and the 42-year-old American was hell-bent on finding something that would mak... ...rgery—something even the best European and American doctors struggled with—and positing that a... ...s struggled with—a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/11/Head-Case-The-Debate-That-Divided-Archaeology/Some folks are lightning rods for success. Others... ...or success. Others are just lightning rods.1. The Civil War ’s Charlie BrownWilmer McLean just wanted ev... ...lawn. In 1861, the Battle of Bull Run—the Civil War &rsq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/20/5-of-the-Worlds-Unluckiest-People/(Photo: US Post Office)In a fascinating article at... ...out United States fractional currency. During the American Civil War , the Trent Affair almost drew the UK into declari... ...he Trent Affair almost drew the UK into declaring war on the United States. This would almost certainly... ...plomats were able...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/14/This-3-Cent-Bill-Is-Legal-Tender-in-the-United-States/The 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War is tomorrow. On April 9, 1865, generals Grant and... ...nder. It was the welcome end of a long and bloody war , but the American government and the Union brass had no desire to p... .....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/08/The-Gentlemans-Agreement-That-Ended-the-Civil-War/The Library of Congress has a special collection o... ...thousand ambrotypes and tintypes taken during the Civil War . Many of these are portraits of soldiers, but als... ...Union and Confederate servicemen who died in the American Civil War . For many, these photographs are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/10/A-Collection-of-Civil-War-Portraits/The following is a list from the book Uncle John's... ...(1885-1972)PISAN CANTOSAt the beginning of World War II, American Ezra Pound lived in Italy and made propaganda rad... ...ascist leader Benito Mussolini and criticized the American government, the British government, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/19/Written-in-the-Pen/Today, Bernice Madigan died peacefully at her home... ...1898, JapaneseGertrude Weaver, born July 4, 1898, AmericanJeralean Talley, born May 23, 1899, AmericanSusannah Mushatt-Jones, born July 6 1899, AmericanEmma Morano-Martinuzzi, born November 29, 1899, Italia... ...ki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/03/The-Five-Oldest-People-in-the-World/General George S. Patton (1885-1945) was a great American general who led armies to victory in north Africa... ...Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany during World War II. He had a larger than life personality and was... ...olas Evan Sarantakes, a professor at the US Naval War...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/22/20-Facts-You-Might-Not-Know-about-Patton-Both-the-Man-and-the-Movie/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-wB4CCZuQ](Video... ...became famous for his captivating miniseries The Civil War . Through brilliant storytelling, he shared not on... ...mel Live, Burns recounts a day--this day--that we Americans call Black Friday.It is not a recent experi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/28/Ken-Burns-Presents-The-First-Black-Friday/
