Russia's timeline in World War II is confusing enough, but its role in World War I was even more so. While most European countries... ...es were fighting each other, Russia had their own civil war , which lasted years and split the country...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/13/The-Forgotten-Story-of-the-American-Troops-Who-Got-Caught-Up-in-the-Russian-Civil-War/Sometimes we look at history as distinct eras, wit... ...ld events, eras, and people. We tend think of the American Civil War as ancient history, and the Civil Rights movement as recent -probably because of th... ...ed by some of the same people. The last surviving Civil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/01/25/The-Quirks-of-Overlapping-History/What we learn about the aftermath of the American Civil War in history class is usually the Reconstruction er... ...a. What happened to the individuals who drove the war ? Lincoln was assassinated, his successor Andrew J... ...was not the case- at least immediately after the war...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/16/What-Happened-to-Confederate-Leaders-After-the-Civil-War/Psychiatry in the 19th century was filled with qua... ...mental illness rose quickly during and after the Civil War , and among the new crop of doctors was Dr. Silas... ..., and became known as the “Father of Modern American Neurology.” Mitchell then turned to oth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/02/The-Doctor-Who-Prescribed-Women-Months-of-Motionless-Milk-Drinking/During World War II, more than 40,000 nurses served in the US mili... ...y about 500 of them over the entire course of the war were black nurses, and they had to fight to be ad... ...Nurse Corps. Powell's father had served in World War I and an ancestor had fought with the Uni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/18/The-Armys-First-Black-Nurses-Were-Relegated-to-Caring-for-Nazi-Prisoners-of-War/If you think there are a lot of protests in the Un... ...like we haven't done it before. Think back to the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War protests- those were only 50 years ago, and 50 ye... ...otest against Britain. Since then, we've seen the Civil *strong cla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/09/United-States-of-Protest-A-Citizens-Guide-to-250-Years-of-Resistance/In 1844, John W. Jones escaped a plantation in Vir... ...e escape to Canada. During the waning days of the Civil War , Elmira sprouted a prison camp for captured Confe... ...he Confederacy began refusing to exchange African- American soldiers—who it considered captive s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/25/John-W-Jones-The-Runaway-Slave-Who-Buried-Nearly-3000-Confederate-Soldiers/(Image credit: Stan Shebs)The following article is... ...urchases were suspended during the Russo-Japanese War .(Image credit: diaper)Nicholas didn’t let t... ...r)Nicholas didn’t let the outbreak of World War I in 1914 stop him from buying Easter eggs, thoug... ...1914 stop him from buying Easter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/19/The-Worlds-Most-Expensive-Eggs/(Image credit: Knowledge)The following article is... ..., Benedict Arnold, the general who fought for the Americans during the Revolutionary War , and then switched sides and sold secrets to the... ...ceived to his foot and leg while fighting for the American side -before he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/12/7-Truly-Odd-Monuments/In 1852, Laurel Cemetery opened on the outskirts o... ...pened on the outskirts of Baltimore as an African- American cemetery that offered "an undisturbed resting pla... ...re, along with thousands of others, including 240 Civil War veterans. But over time, the cemetery compa...
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