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Aug 31, 2023 · Panic of 1873. The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that lasted six years and led to an economic depression that spread across the United States and Europe. Some of the main causes for the economic predicament included inflation and distrust in banks, coupled with questionable investments that anticipated quick returns.
The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
Introduction: The Elusive Story of Violence in Reconstruction Texas, 1865–1874 — Kenneth W. Howell. Part One: Representatives of Change: Soldiers, Bureau Agents, and Lawmen. 1. The Post of Greatest Peril?: The Freedmen’s Bureau Subassistant Commissioners and Reconstruction Violence in Texas, 1865–1869 — Christopher Bean; 2.
The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion of the ship SS E. A. Bryan on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States. Munitions being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations detonated killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others.
A timeline from Walt Whitman’s publication of articles on the history of Brooklyn and New York to his December 1862 move to Washington, D.C., where he worked for the federal government and volunteered at Civil War hospitals, through his postwar publications, employment, and health crisis culminating in official termination from his job in the Justice Department in July 1874.
Jun 29, 2018 · There is a photograph dated to 1874, depicting a little girl with visible injuries and bruises all over her body. Even 143 years later, the sight of it will probably leave the observer feeling bit uneasy. On the picture is a girl by the name of Mary Ellen Wilson–a victim of child abuse. When her case was revealed, it grabbed much public ...
DDT was used to control insects during World War II, and then as an agricultural insecticide. Almost all uses of DDT were banned in most developed countries in the 1970s–1980s. In some countries, DDT was applied to the inside walls of homes to kill or repel mosquitoes.
