The following article is from the book Uncle John'... ...hese United States.” He went on to call for American leaders to meet in San Francisco and said his goa... ...) were often ahead of their time. Even before the Civil War was declared, he’d wanted to dissolve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/26/All-Hail-the-Emperor-of-San-Francisco/Embed from Getty Images On the very first Earth... ...ng teaching events similar to those being held by civil rights and anti- war activists.Senator Nelson saw a growing disconnect... ...t between the concept of progress and the idea of American well-being, Hayes tells mental_...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/21/How-Earth-Day-Began/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi... ...te.5. He was a hard-drinker, a cigar-smoker and a war hero, but Grant did not like profanity or off-col... ...ent so no one could see him.8. After a successful Civil War battle, appreciative *strong class="matched-k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/19/15-Things-You-May-Not-Know-About-Ulysses-S-Grant/The mysterious femme fatale. The jaded private eye... ...room, dumped him in a dark alley, and created an American classic.THE REAL MCCOYUnlike other mystery noveli... ...racked down a stolen Ferris wheel. But when World War I erupted, Hammett took a break from agency life... ...hetic. As an avowed communist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/13/Dashiell-Hammetts-The-Maltese-Falcon/The following article is from the book Uncle John'... ...for thousands of West Coast families after World War II. MASTER BUILDER IN THE MAKINGAll Joe Eichler w... ...d to do was build some low-cost housing for World War II veterans and their families: small, ranch-styl... ...colors, a pretty daring prospect i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/24/The-Great-American-Dream-House/The 1972 film The Godfather was nominated for elev... ...talians, but some Italians were offended. Italian- Americans were continually portrayed as criminals in the mo... ...ime family that bore his name, formed The Italian- American Civil Rights League in 1969. They demanded...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/15/Why-The-Godfather-Almost-Didnt-Happen/The end of the U. S. Civil War left the nation in shambles. President Abraham Li... ...ted States, less than a year after the end of the war .” The move infuriated northern Republicans,... ...going to give us back the world we had before the *strong class="matched-kw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/05/The-Political-Cartoon-That-Explains-the-Battle-Over-Reconstruction/Vigilante groups have been part of the American landscape since the nation was first settled. Whe... ...ivided along political lines during and after the Civil War , and the locals in power did not tend to uphold t... ...te groups are in some way a representation of the *s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/27/Self-Righteous-Devils-What-Ozark-Vigilantes-of-the-1880s-Reveal-About-Modern-America/The following article is from the book Uncle John'... ...ic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers. If the Americans hadn’t disrespected Canadian borders, we mi... ...873, after the Cypress Hills Massacre. That year, American wolf trappers in Montana lost a lot of horses to... ...for a number of reasons...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/24/The-Mounties-They-Always-Get-Their-Man/While the U.S. occupied Japan after World War II, between 30,000 and 50,000 American GIs married Japanese women. To prepare these brid... .... To prepare these brides for life in the US, the American Red Cross opened "bride schools" starting in 1951... ...them what they wo...
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