On July 3, 1863--the third and final day of the Battle of Gettysburg-- a Confederate infantry assault that came to be known as Pickett’s Charge almost broke the Army of Potomac in two.First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/06/151-Years-after-His-Death-An-American-Soldier-Is-Awarded-the-Medal-of-Honor/Cartoonist Charles Addams was almost as bizarre as... ...enduring creation, The Addams Family, reflected American values in a funhouse mirror, showcasing the paran... ...nstead of a standard coffee table, Addams used a Civil War -era embalming table. He also kept a collectio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/31/Light-Heart-Dark-Humor-The-Man-Behind-The-Addams-Family/The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi... ...ll in California spiked the greatest gold rush in American history. Since then other huge gold deposits had... ...ppraisal were one U.S. Congressman and two former Civil War generals, including George McClellan, who&rsq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/20/The-Great-Diamond-Hoax-of-1872/Text can tell stories, but a picture is worth a th... ...nam turned the tide of public opinion against the war . Photographs from the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950s and ‘60s serve... ...uo;60s served the same purpose.Photographs of the civil rights struggle helped ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/08/The-Struggle-in-Black-and-White-Activist-Photographers-Who-Fought-for-Civil-Rights/Slate's Vault blog describes a fascinating board g... ...a fascinating board game made in the midst of the American Civil War . Charlton & Althrop, a publishing house in Ph... ...xcept with a bit more bloodshed.The game shows an American bald eagle strangling a snake representing Southe... ...ces sends th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/07/This-1862-Board-Game-Was-the-Civil-War-Version-of-Candy-Land/Earlier this week, John told us about the Camels o... ...federate Army used quite a few of them during the Civil War . That inspired Neatorama reader Russ Warner to send us some of his neat pictures of the Cedar... ...enirs by Federal soldiers.[2]Learn more about the *stro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/29/A-Monument-to-Old-Douglas/(Photo via Afflictor)Camels existed in the America... ...sity of Houston describes the adventures of these American camels:In any case, the Confederate Army captured... ...ederate Army captured the Texas Camels during the Civil War and used them to move cotton into Mexican po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/25/The-Camels-of-Texas-1856/The following is reprinted from the book Uncle Joh... ...numerals. WHEN IN ROMEIn the first millennium BC, civilizations thrived in Greece, India, and China- and they all... ...ALONGAfter the fall of the Roman Empire, many of civilization ’s advancements and inventions fell out of u... ...y became popul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/18/Rollin-Bones-The-History-of-Dice/The following is an article from Uncle John's Slig... ...erton had the telegraph lines cut so no one could warn the plotters that Lincoln was on the way.Aftermat... ...McClellan. Background: Following the start of the Civil War in April 1861, General George McClellan, who com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/04/The-Pinkerton-Files/In the summer of 1876, Philadelphia was teeming... ...g elevators, electric lights, and a live walrus. American Indians stood on display, living cultural exhibit... ...’d need all the extra cash he could get.How War Led to Lady LibertyThe story of the statue begins... ...dy LibertyThe story of the sta...
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