Sentences with phrase «west after the civil war»

Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King was named by John Hay «the best and brightest of his generation.»

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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.

Voting opened at 8:00 am after a campaign hailed for a vibrant and violence - free debate in the small West African nation, which suffered back - to - back civil wars from 1989 to 2003.

A ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the duty of cleaning up the West.

And set as it is shortly after the Civil War, I can understand the usage of the first two words, but I finally had to draw the line when no demonstrative proof has been given that the F - word was used in the Old West (especially the MF - word, which appears several times in this picture; my research shows the word existed, but not the definition we know of today).

After the Civil War, the West of Colorado Territory is an untamed land, where a woman must rely on her own wit and resiliency to realize her dreams.

Two decades after the Civil War, Josephine Marcus, the teenage daughter of Jewish immigrants, is lured west with the promise of marriage to Johnny Behan, one of Arizona's famous lawmen.

Originally part of Virginia, Clarksburg was one of the first cities established after West Virginia elected to remain part of the Union during the Civil War.

His paintings of geological marvels west of the Mississippi helped the United States define its national identity after the Civil War.

As a collective ecological consciousness rose and environmentalism emerged throughout the industrialized West in the years after the Second World War, Canada found a tenuous but manageable balance between its resource development economy and its increasingly stewardship - minded civil society.

Created by English architect Richard Norman Shaw, the style was popularized after the Civil War by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and spread rapidly, especially in the South and West.