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Thus, in this special issue of History Now, our essays consider conflicts ranging from the imperial rivalries between the French and the English in America, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the battle of the Alamo, Antietam, war in the Philippines, World Wars I and II, the Korean conflict, Vietnam, and our modern-day Operation Desert Storm. Whether they focus on military strategies.Essays “A Right Deferred: African American Voter Suppression after Reconstruction” by Marsha J. Tyson Darling “Civil Rights Leadership and the 1964 Civil Rights Act” by Clarence Taylor “The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies” by James T. Patterson. Spotlights on Primary Sources. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Four Basic Rights.The Affiliates section of the Gilder Lehrman website will offer you an amazing variety of resources for teaching American History: Essays by noted scholars, lesson plans, primary sources, maps and other visuals, podcasts, identifications of key terms from major chronological eras, time lines, and related essays on music, art, and literature.
The American Civil Liberties Union warned that “the threat to civil liberties today is the most serious in the history of our country.” The historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in 1954 of “the widespread foreboding among liberals that this form of dissent will grow until it overwhelms our liberties altogether and plunges us into a totalitarian nightmare.”.But a hundred weekly papers from the rural counties told a more dramatic story, and skilled lecturers from the Farmers Alliance helped drive it home. A year later the worst drought since the Civil War destroyed millions of acres of corn, wheat, and oats. The health of Nebraska’s urban economy depended upon the bounty of its farms.
This essay will consider the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction epoch on the American battle for women’s suffrage. As of 1860, the right to vote was not the primary demand of the women’s rights movement, which focused much more on the economic rights of women—and especially of wives—to earn, inherit, and hold property.
