Sentences with phrase «just after the civil war»

Just after the Civil War, bright young American literati exposed to the new surge of scholarship at continental universities came home only to be dismayed by the lethargy and intellectual squalor of their no - longer almae matres.

I venture to say that the social failure of nerve set in just after the Civil War.

Li Shaohong's Blush, which focuses sympathetically on the difficult fates of two former Shanghai prostitutes and one of their wealthy clients just after the civil war, is a mainland China / Hong Kong coproduction.

«Little Women» (1994) The fifth screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about an East Coast family just after the Civil War.

Set in North Carolina just after the Civil War, a girl in her mid-teens must ride her father's powerful thoroughbred stallion at night over roads crawling with the Klan to warn him that he is about to be killed.

Set just after the Civil War, a time that recalls her luminous debut, Enemy Women (2002), this slim, spare book tells the story of an unlikely bond that grows between a 10 - year - old girl who had been captured by the Kiowa tribe that killed her family, and the grizzled army captain who is sent to escort her home.

Not exact matches

Twain and Grant first met shortly after the Civil War, when just about everyone in the North — Twain included — idolized Grant for having led the Union army to victory.

Just as we will never know if JFK would have followed through on his plans to withdraw troops from Viet Nam or how Abe Lincoln would have handled reconstruction after the Civil War.

Barbara Hosking's book, Exceeding My Brief, Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant, tells how she came to London as a Cornish scholarship girl just after the second world war.

After they visited Republican troops during the Spanish Civil War, Ellen's return plane had been hit by lightning but she arrived back to the Commons just in time to move her Hire Purchase Bill, to protect the poorest in society.

It comes just days after senior Tories began a major operation to save Mr Cameron's Premiership from the ruins of his party's EU referendum civil war.

T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), who has just been made king and Black Panther after his father dies in a terrorist attack (see «Captain America: Civil War»), is not so sure.

... EW also dropped a promotional image of Black Panther, with Marvel chief Kevin Feige going on to explain how his inclusion in Civil War came about: «We kept talking about «somebody like Black Panther...» After the third or fourth time that came up in a development meeting, someone said, «Can't we just do the Black Panther?»

This absence of acknowledgment, so soon after the civil war, shows there's just enough subtext going on in this film.

Revisiting and reworking the Western genre for a second time, after 2012's Django Unchained, Tarantino's latest communiqué from the American frontier ensues in the years following the Civil War where race relations run reprehensible as eight rogues diverge together at Minnie's Haberdashery — a stagecoach chalet in the Wyoming mountains — just as a blizzard touches down.

Alan Ladd stars as a Kansas cattle rancher battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande just after the United States» Civil War.

Beginning surprisingly in another time and place we won't spoil, when the film returns to the «present day» we catch up with T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) seemingly just moments or days after the finale of Civil War.

This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War.

The plot primarily follows two trajectories: life during and just after the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 — January 1970), and the protagonist's growing sense of sexual identity in a conservative Christian culture.

But just because we know that Stark will pass on the Iron mantle after «Civil War II» doesn't mean we know the event's ending.

That mouthwash was Odol, the first to be commercially sold, and the fashion for mouthwash began just after World War II — perhaps in response to the war's disturbing the promise of a civil socieWar II — perhaps in response to the war's disturbing the promise of a civil sociewar's disturbing the promise of a civil society.

Images from as early as the Civil War — really just three decades after the invention of photography — to the war in Iraq make up a stunning tribute to «The American Soldier» at the Saint Mary's College Museum of Art in MoraWar — really just three decades after the invention of photography — to the war in Iraq make up a stunning tribute to «The American Soldier» at the Saint Mary's College Museum of Art in Morawar in Iraq make up a stunning tribute to «The American Soldier» at the Saint Mary's College Museum of Art in Moraga.

Artist Statement «Just before, during and after the American Civil War a great influx of Irish Catholic refugees entered the United States of America.