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Not exact matches
Both generals would earn historical prestige leading their respective armies against each other
during the
American Civil War, but they weren't always enemies.
Summary: «The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls» school in Virginia
during the
American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.»
During the
Civil War,
American Red Cross founder Clara Barton insisted on working as a nurse on the front lines.
The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their
American banking counterparts
during the
American Civil War.
Osceola saw guerilla fighting
during the days of the
American Civil War.
Not long after the
Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African
American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang
during the days of....
But what about the historical fact that you guys slaughtered each other
during the
American Civil War which was one of the most cruel
wars of all history.
To these one might add such instances as the constitutional protection of slavery which led some radical abolitionists to repudiate that document; the massive violation of
civil liberties
during World
War I; and the internment of Japanese -
American citizens
during World
War II.
The 1988
Civil Liberties Act, for example, paid $ 20,000 to each Japanese -
American who was incarcerated
during World
War II.
In
American history, this method was used by many of the colonies, by the Continental Congress
during the Revolutionary
War, and by Abraham Lincoln in the
Civil War.
During the
American civil war she walked into the army camps of both sides to denounce the abuse of black girls as «camp followers».
The United States first became involved in the new wave of reparations in 1988, when Congress passed the
Civil Liberties Act, allowing the federal government to compensate Japanese -
Americans who had been interned
during the Second World
War.
Grass had gained attention
during the Nicaraguan
civil war by arguing everywhere he could that the Sandinista commissars were victims of a demonic
American imperialism equal to Russian Communist oppression in Poland.
During the 1870s and 1880s the communitarian socialism of the period before the
Civil War was almost forgotten and most
Americans writing on the subject were pointing with alarm to the possibility of class warfare and destructive revolution that European socialism would bring to America.
Its unity in and with Rome kept
American Catholicism from fracturing
during the
Civil War, according to the standard account.
And
during every
war from the Revolution War to Vietnam, African Americans served as soilders for a country that denied them their full civil righ
war from the Revolution
War to Vietnam, African Americans served as soilders for a country that denied them their full civil righ
War to Vietnam, African
Americans served as soilders for a country that denied them their full
civil rights.
Also slighted in «The
American Bible» are more recent voices, since it is harder to generate a vast commentary tradition for a work from the 1990s or 2000s than for one published
during the revolution or the
Civil War.
Following the
American Revolution, thousands of British Loyalists emigrated to the Bahamas; then,
during the
Civil War, many Southerners arrived bringing their slaves with them.
She was an
American abolitionist who treated the Union Army as a surgeon
during the
Civil War.
The video is a rap - spoof of a media interview with «General Baxter, representing AFRICOM», probably a play on the
American Union Army General Henry Baxter (1821 — 1873) who fought
during the
American Civil War.
In about 1864 (
during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.
With the enactment of the National Banking Act of 1863,
during the
American Civil War and its later versions that taxed states» bonds and currency out of existence, the dollar became the sole currency of the United States and remains so today.
«Dr. Brown was a trailblazer who fought heroically for his country despite segregation
during World
War II and improved the lives of countless New Yorkers and
Americans through his work in the
Civil Rights Movement and the education field.
The family tree they assembled shows the darker moments in recent human history; for example the massive waves of death
during the
American Civil War, World
War I and World
War II.
It was probably responsible for stories that the wounds of some soldiers injured
during the
American civil war glowed in the dark (New Scientist, 9 June 2001, p 23).
The elder Paine had been an oarsman for Harvard in the 1850s, and served as an officer in the 22nd Massachusetts in the
Civil War,
during which time he commanded a unit of African -
American soldiers.
People who experienced or witnessed violence were four times more likely to suffer from alcohol - related disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
during the
civil war, researchers from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Brown University report this week in the
American Journal of Public Health.
Apple cider vinegar was used for wound healing
during the
American civil war and as late as world
war one.
The navy blue remained to have a military meaning all the way into the late 1800's, but
during the
American Civil War, it became the defining colour of the Union soldiers who were fighting the Confederate States of America.
The Union Army or Federal Army was the land force that fought for the Union
during the
American Civil War, 1861 to 1865.
Okay, now, this is completely inaccurate as a biographical account, because I'm pretty sure Queen Latifah was not alive
during the
American Civil War.
Opening shot: the
American Civil War, the first person we see and hear is a black man, soldier
during 10 long years, the second we hear is Lincoln - whom we donâ $ ™ t see yet, we will see him very soon from the back, the same position as the audienceâ $ ™ s - asking him about his situation, the third that speaks is another black soldier.
Director Daniel Barber's second film — after «OAP on the rampage» thriller Harry Brown — is a home - invasion tale, only it's set
during the
American Civil War when a trio of women on a farm in the Deep South are forced to fend off a pair of mercenary Union soldiers.
THE GENERAL is perhaps Buster Keaton's best - known films, is inspired by a true story of an event that occurred
during the
American Civil War, as adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
In The Keeping Room, she and Hailee Steinfeld are sisters who must defend their farm
during the end of the
American Civil War.
Directed by Daniel Barber, «The Keeping Room» «focuses on the violent resilience and dramatic camaraderie of three Southern women as their home is besieged
during the purges at the close of the
American Civil War.
SYNOPSIS:
During the
American Civil War, a girl from a Confederate boarding school discovers a wounded Union soldier.
With a focus on the trials of three young women as they work to maintain their lives and their home
during the final days of the
American Civil War, The Keeping Room shines by focusing not on the war or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to endu
War, The Keeping Room shines by focusing not on the
war or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to endu
war or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to endure.
SYNOPSIS: The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls» school in Virginia
during the
American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.
by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent
American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom
during the Revolutionary and
Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.
8:00 pm — TCM — Glory Matthew Broderick commands an all - black unit of the Union army
during the
American Civil War.
Bay is no stranger to action movies, and 13 Hours does a decent job of showing the dangerous situations that the
Americans faced in
during the Libyan
civil war and portraying the heroism of the security force that protected and saved
American lives.
Woe to Live on, in contrast to the Southern crime backwoods noir novels, is set in Kansas and Missouri
during the
American Civil War.
Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters
during the
American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss and the trials of growing up.
Set
during the
American Civil War in January 1865, Lincoln focuses on President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) as he attempts to abolish slavery in the USA by passing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives.
A remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood feature, the story concerns a wounded Union soldier stumbling onto a Confederate school
during the
American Civil War.
A family is torn apart
during the
American Civil War.
Lawrence Roeck's film has been explicitly conceived as an opportunity for the younger Eastwood to emulate the persona that cemented his elder's legend, fusing elements of The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven, and the Dollars trilogy into a revenge narrative spanning portions of the
American West
during the period of unrest following the
Civil War.