Physically brave to the point of recklessness, thi... ...ponies and their military counterparts during the American Civil War .Like Twilight Sparkle, U.S. Maj. Gen. Henry Jacks... ...derstanding of the challenge.At the outset of the war , Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott was the senior general i... ...tates Army. He w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/14/Ponies-and-Their-Matching-Civil-War-Generals/Jefferson Davis, the first and last President of the Confederate States of America, advocated a paternalistic approach to slaveholding. He believed that white rule over black slaves was beneficial and benevolent toward b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/11/Sketch-of-the-Emancipation-of-Jefferson-Daviss-Slaves/The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi... ...years before the Emancipation Proclamation freed American slaves, a Massachusetts woman helped free the sla... ...band, also a slave, gave his life fighting on the American side during the Revolutionary War . Born into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/29/Betty-Freemans-Day-in-Court/During the American Civil War , the United States Navy blockaded Southern ports.... ...the Wright brothers flew, Powers tried to build a warplane :Although balloons were being effectively used for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/19/The-Confederate-Helicopter/The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...gle in New York City. THe next year, she took the civil service exam and scored very high -high enough to... ...doctorate in public health from the school. World War I strained the U.S. economy, and the poor got poo... ...ted out to a reporter for The N...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/08/The-Amazing-Dr-Baker/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi... ...eezen. Visit Eddie at his website.* Lincoln had a wart on his right cheek, a scar on his thumb from an a... ...Lincoln had a substitute fight for him during the Civil war . He was not a paid substitute. J. Summerfield S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/27/A-Few-Things-You-Might-Not-Have-Known-About-Abraham-Lincoln/During the early 1940s, 70,000 people worked at th... ...omb. Most of the workers were women, recruited as civil servants to aid the war effort. And they didn't know anything about the j... ...b they were doing until they started doing it.The civil servant was given only one...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/21/The-Women-Behind-the-Bomb/The funeral industry wasn't always like it is toda... ...mbers of fatalities during the early years of the American Colonies. Eventually capitalism took over, and de... ...of the corpse to preserve it, which is a uniquely American practice. Embalming started during the Civil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/18/Giving-Death-a-Makeover/The Civil War was the first American war to be documented on film, but those photographs a... ...our perception of those scenes with his book The Civil War i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/24/The-Civil-War-Now-in-Living-Color/This Presidents Day article is from the book Uncle... ...the times and the presidents.A longtime symbol of American freedom and power, the White House, at its heart,... ...getting shocked. LINCOLNS MAKE IT OVERDuring the Civil War , while her husband went about the business o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/18/The-White-House-Keeping-Up-Appearances/
