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5 hours ago · A consensus of historians who address the origins of the American Civil War agree that the preservation of the institution of slavery was the principal aim of the eleven Southern states (seven states before the onset of the war and four states after the onset) that declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and united to form the Confederate States of America (known as the ...
4 hours ago · Statues of Confederate leaders, including Lee, Jackson, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, were removed from Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue in 2020 and 2021 following protests and ...
5 hours ago · From somewhere, a shot was fired -- no one knew then, or even today, who fired that first shot of the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. When the regulars approached Parker and the militia, infantry troops rushed forward in an intimidating manner, yelling with threatening motions of their bayonets and an officer on horseback was ...
1 day ago · The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse.
- 21 February – 18 December 1916, (9 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
- French victory
1 day ago · The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade ...
- September 3, 1939 – May 8, 1945, (5 years, 8 months and 5 days)
- Allied victory
5 hours ago · Name. The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its having been organized in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding ...
1 day ago · A History of the United States since the Civil War. Volume V, 1888–1901 (Macmillan, 1937). 791pp; comprehensive old-fashioned political history; Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1877–1896 (1919) online complete; old, factual and heavily political, by winner of Pulitzer Prize; Shannon, Fred A.
