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4 days ago · As the final chapter in a story stretching not from 1776 but from the darkest abyss of time, the Civil War dead joined the long march of life on Earth, from the trilobites to the catastrophes that finally ended with General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The mass death of the Civil War created what Frederick Law Olmsted called a “republic ...
1 day ago · She was called "the black woman's poet laureate", and her poems have been called the anthems of African Americans. [145] Angelou studied and began writing poetry at a young age, and used poetry and other great literature to cope with her rape as a young girl, as described in Caged Bird . [ 19 ]
6 hours ago · t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be ...
1 day ago · Signature. Walter Whitman Jr. (/ ˈhwɪtmən /; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. [1]
5 days ago · Posted on 22nd January 2024. The Civil Wars in Oxfordshire Live and online talk with Professor Andrew Hopper Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum The first of 2024's online talk series with Andrew Hopper exploring.
3 days ago · Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S.—died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the 16th president of the United States (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. 1 of 2.
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3 days ago · The Civil War battle of Spotsylvania Court House saw the most sustained hand-to-hand combat of the war and ranks as its third-bloodiest battle, with more than 31,000 casualties. Chris Mackowski, a writing professor in St. Bonaventure University’s Jandoli School of Communication , has written a new book about the battle, “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21 ...
