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3 days ago · Category. Portal. v. 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"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union.
- Union
During the American Civil War, the United States was...
- Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred...
- Origins of The American Civil War
Geography and demographics. By the mid-19th century the...
- Battle of Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln Union cavalry had some minor successes...
- Talk
A3: No. Lincoln combined moral opposition to slavery...
- Jefferson Davis
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an...
- List of American Civil War Battles
Battles rated by CWSAC. The American Battlefield Protection...
- Western Theater of The American Civil War
Theater of operations Western Theater map at The...
- Eastern Theater of The American Civil War
The eastern theater of the American Civil War consisted of...
- USS Atlanta
Description and career as Fingal. Fingal was designed and...
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4 days ago · Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
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2 days ago · In the early 19th century interest in a return of the Jews to Palestine was kept alive mostly by Christian millenarians. Despite the Haskala, eastern European Jews did not assimilate and, in reaction to tsarist pogroms, formed the Ḥovevei Ẕiyyon (“Lovers of Zion”) to promote the settlement of Jewish farmers and artisans in Palestine.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · 19th century 1800s. 1800: Alessandro Volta invents the voltaic pile, an early form of battery in Italy, based on previous works by Luigi Galvani. 1802: Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until the invention of efficient electric generators).
4 days ago · Theatre in the 19th century is divided into two parts: early and late. The early period was dominated by melodrama and Romanticism. Beginning in France, melodrama became the most popular theatrical form. August von Kotzebue's Misanthropy and Repentance (1789) is often considered the first melodramatic play.
4 days ago · J.M.W. Turner, English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, color, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity. Perhaps the greatest landscapist of the 19th century, he anticipated the French Impressionists in breaking down conventional formulas of representation.
4 days ago · 19th Century British Pamphlets. Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. more... British Labour History Ephemera (NCCO)
