Fermi Manhattan Project
With such a pedigree, it can be hard to imagine that anyone ever doubted including Fermi in the Manhattan Project. But he was, you will remember, a citizen of an Axis power, Italy. True, he was one who fled Mussolini (in 1938, after receiving his Nobel Prize in Stockholm), but a citizen nonetheless. He didn’t become a naturalized U.S. citizen until 1944, well after he had begun…
American Revolutionary War Battles Timeline
American Revolution War - American Revolutionary Soldiers The were 36 major battles in the war but the smaller conflicts and skirmishes took the number to over 100. A total of 35, American Revolutionary Soldiers served in the Continental Army backed by 44, 500 militia. 25, men died during the war…
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Chronology of the American Revolution
1763 – The Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). France, in defeat, gave up most claims to North American territory. Britain wanted the colonies to help pay the war’s debts, but the colonies were increasingly ready for self-government. 1764-70 – Britain imposed a series of…
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Textile mills in the Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution started in Great Britain in the mid-1700s. Textile production was the first great industry created. The textile industry in America began in New England during the late 18th century. By 1820, mills had spread south into Virginia and Kentucky and the first mill town was established…
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American History 1900
In the year 1900, Ypsilanti, Michigan’s South Adams Street was a place where the generations that knew of slavery and the struggle for freedom, of Canadian exile and of the Civil War, of the promise of Reconstruction, its defeat and the resulting birth of Jim Crow, were still alive. This neighborhood…
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World War One Vocabulary
The critically lauded film The Imitation Game just won an Oscar for Graham Moore s screenplay, adapted from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Crosswords play an important role in the story of the World War II codebreakers, but it turns out they also mastered the art of the palindrome. Palindromist…
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Cottage system Industrial Revolution
The Cottage Industry found it s roots in the Middle Ages. It is often referred to as the putting-out system. This system was most common in the textile wool-cloth industry. The process of making the raw material into cloth involved cleaning, carding, spinning, and weaving. This was done by everyone in…
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History of the American Revolutionary War
Women Also Fought for Independence Image: Molly Pitcher Monmouth Battle Monument Monmouth County, New Jersey When her husband was overcome with fatigue and collapsed, Molly jumped forward and helped to work the gun. Taxed by the Mother Country Relations between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain…
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World War One gas masks
Citation: C N Trueman Gas masks in World War One historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 31 Mar 2015. 19 Feb 2016. Gas masks used in World War One were made as a result of poison gas attacks that took the Allies in the trenches on the Western Front by surprise. Early gas masks were crude…
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