Holiday Giveaway!!
#books #reading #Christmasiscoming Click the ornaments to see each book. To enter, click on the package/gift. Enter to win books from 13 authors!
Free – for a limited time
Book news – For a limited time, you can get a free Ebook review copy of “Across the Great Divide: Book 1 The Clouds of War” from NetGalley. The requirements are posting a review when you finish the book – … Continued
Around the World – in *How* many days?!
Many people have heard of Jules Verne’s book, Around the World in Eighty Days. At the time it was written, without air travel, the idea of traveling around the world in two and a half months seemed preposterous. The book, … Continued
All aboard – Railroads – the Chinese contribution
posted in: History Makers, Immigration and Immigrants, The American West, 19th Century, Uncategorized |
0
In the fall of 1868, Charles Crocker estimated that 10,000 Chinese, 1,000 whites, and “any number” of Native Americans worked for the Central Pacific Railroad.
A love is torn apart
Georgeanna Woolsey was a nurse that served in the Sanitary Commission for the Union during the Civil War. On a visit to Charleston, S.C. just before the war, she witnessed a huge slave auction that forever confirmed her opposition to … Continued
We will never forget? But have we? Could 9/11 happen again?
9/11 – do we remember? Or will history repeat?
Civil War Quote of the week
“The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards. The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. My loss was about twenty killed. It is hoped that these … Continued
17th Century Justice
Justice was different in the 17th century – this would sure cut down on crime rate and prison crowding – from “The Blue Laws of Connecticut” p. 74 published 1656: (17th Century spelling preserved BURGLARY AND THEFT.Forasmuch as many persons … Continued
What was an Ironclad in the Civil War?
More than just the Monitor and the Merrimack Virtually every student of the Civil War has heard of the epic battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack, two early ironclad warships. But were they the only ones? Not by a … Continued