Sentences with phrase «living after the civil war»

Olmstead wrote a masterpiece of life after the civil war and before the turn of the century.

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After the devastating losses of the Civil War, people were searching for comfort and found it in a book called «The Gates Ajar,» which depicted Heaven as a place where people led normal lives in their «spiritual bodies,» with houses, families, and regular activities.

Since professional embalming gained respectability only after the Civil War, the family most often prepared the body, subsequently placing it in the parlor or living room for viewing.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Finally, after her country endured a decade of civil war that claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, and with the help of Leymah Gbowee and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, Johnson - Sirleaf was elected president in 2005.

After learning about the plight of these children, can you still do nothing for them while at the same time thinking that if you had lived during the Civil War, you would have been on the side of freedom?

In the «Spider - Man» film, a high - school aged Peter Parker tries to go back to his normal life after meeting Iron Man and the rest of the Avengers gang in «Captain America: Civil War.»

The film centers on the life of T'Challa after the events of Captain America: Civil War, the discovery of another relative, Erik Killmonger, who challenges the crown and the mistakes of family.

Dozens about life after The American Civil War.

Hawkeye only joined Cap's team in Civil War to repay a life debt he owed to Wanda Maximoff after her brother, Pietro, saved him in Age of Ultron.

He lived through the Qing dynasty, the early republican years, the northern conquest [by the government against warlords], the fight against the Japanese [during WWII] and finally the exodus to Hong Kong [during and after the Chinese civil war between 1945 and 1949].

The first — and more involving one — is simply observing how a group of Sri Lankan refugees, after their displacement during the final part of a 25 - year civil war within the island nation, adjusts to living in France.

After making his debut in Captain America: Civil War last year, T'Challa has taken his place on Wakanda's throne as you can see from the poster above and Chadwick Boseman looks to bring the character to life in a big way as seen from the looks of the film's first trailer below!

One hundred and fifty years after shots fired at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, a growing number of teachers are digging directly into primary sources and using technology to help their students better understand the conflict and bring it to life.

In the first authoritative biography of Post, Laura Claridge documents the life of a woman destined to be a society queen, but who instead became the queen of etiquette and a role model for generations of Americans.Born after the Civil War and growing up in the Gilded Age, Emily Price was the daughter of an upper -...

After illuminating Douglass» rise from slave to influential public figure, the discussion shifts to Lincoln, focusing on his life and his involvement in the Civil War and the issue of slavery.

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.

More than ten years after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, lifelong friends McCall «Mac» Patton and Ron «Sandy» Sands left Clay County, Missouri behind for another life adventure of prospecting for gold in the Colorado Rockies.

The Levine Museum of the New South is an informative and interactive museum in Charlotte that documents what life was like in the North Carolina Piedmont after the American Civil War.

He reinvented his life after leaving Albania in 1997 when civil war triggered widespread rioting and looting.

America's obsession with the Civil War has never dulled; year after year living history reenactors take to the historic battlefields to commemorate famous battles between Yankee and Confederate soldiers.

After his first trip to Paris in 1920, and through 1931, Miró generally spent half of each year in the French capital and half in his native Catalonia, returning to live in France after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in After his first trip to Paris in 1920, and through 1931, Miró generally spent half of each year in the French capital and half in his native Catalonia, returning to live in France after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.

«In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable.

When Liberia opened up to investment after a devastating civil war, the government struck land deals with companies without the consent of the people who lived on the land, and many communities received a pittance in return for it.

His parents, fearing for his safety after Sri Lanka's civil war, had arranged for him to live with his uncle in Toronto.

Denver City suffered stagnation in development through most of the Civil War era, only coming back to life after locals successfully created their own link to the growing Union Pacific railway called the Denver Pacific Railway.