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Hace 4 horas · PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — As Philadelphia gets ready to celebrate America's birthday, a museum in Old City is welcoming a rediscovered musket that was used during the American Revolutionary War.
Hace 1 día · The American Revolution and the early federal republic. Prelude to revolution. The tax controversy; Constitutional differences with Britain; The Continental Congress; The American Revolutionary War; Treaty of Paris; Foundations of the American republic. Problems before the Second Continental Congress; State politics; The ...
Hace 2 días · The United States after 1861. The original Northern objective in the Civil War was the preservation of the Union—a war aim with which virtually everybody in the free states agreed.
Hace 2 días · Success in war often lies less in technology per se and more in social, cultural and strategic issues of access to technology and what’s done with it. We’re making a mistake if we conceive the continent’s military history as having been a battle between Europeans with modern military technology against Indigenous peoples without it.
Hace 5 días · On a number of occasions, as in the short talk printed here, he propounded the belief that the Indigenous peoples of the Americas were the Ten Lost Tribes. With sharp irony, he said that he had studied the issue and concluded that the theory was true.
Hace 4 días · The American military contribution, while small compared to that of the Allies during the entire war, was in two respects decisive in the outcome. The U.S. Navy, fully prepared at the outset, provided the ships that helped the British overcome the submarine threat by the autumn of 1917.
Hace 2 días · Several historians have situated America’s Civil War within the broader framework of global history. 58 Before and during the sesquicentennial, several conferences and books of essays have brought together U.S. and foreign scholars with wonderful results for students of the international context. 59 Jorg Nagler, Marcus Gräser, and Don Doyle’s The Transnational Significance of the American ...
