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Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Richard Wright, a black boy living in the Jim Crow South, travels north in hopes of escaping the violence and prejudice that rules his childhood. Selected (8) reading passages (grades7-12) to pair with "Black Boy" by Richard Wright....
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N Cpedia: Windmills
Windmills were so common along the North Carolina coast at the time of the Civil War that Charles F. Johnson, a Union soldier stationed on Hatteras Island, later wrote that there were "a greater number than I supposed were in existence...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: David Emanuel Twiggs
David Emanuel Twiggs (1790 - July 15, 1862) was a United States soldier during the War of 1812 and Mexican-American War and a general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was one of the oldest generals on...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Anderson
(1805-1871) Soldier during the Civil War who commanded the Federal Garrison at Fort Sumter the signaled the beginning of the Civil War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Albert Sidney Johnston
(1803-1862) American soldier who fought in the Black Hawk War, the war for Texan independence, the Mexican War, and was killed at Shiloh in the Civil War where he was fighting for the Confederate army, commanding the forces in the west.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee: Fort Pillow
The Confederate victory at the Battle of Fort Pillow (April 1864) ended in the killing of 229 Black Union soldiers out of 262 engaged in the battle. This slaughter by the Southern troops under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest has been labeled...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, commonly called Prince Rupert of the Rhine, (17 December 1619 - 29 November 1682), soldier, inventor and amateur artist in mezzotint. He was a soldier from a young age, fighting...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Nelson A. Miles
(1839-1925) American soldier who sirved in the Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Nelson Appleton Miles
(1839-1925) American soldier and general in the Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Gordon Meade
(1815-1872) American soldier in the Mexican War and Union general in the Civil War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Henry W. Lawton
(1843-1899) American soldier in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Alexander Logan
John Alexander Logan (February 8, 1826 - December 26, 1886) was an American soldier and political leader. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a General in the Union Army in the American Civil War. Senator from Illinois.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Joseph E. Johnston
(1807-1891) Soldier that fought in the Mexican War and in the Confederate side of the Civil War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Nelson A. Miles
U. S. soldier who served in the Spanish-American War and the Civil War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Philip Kearny
(1815-1862) Soldier in Mexican War and Civil War for the Union
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Sherman
An American soldier, businessman, and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War, achieving both recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy, and criticism for the harshnes of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: E. O. C. Ord
(1818-1883) Soldier that served in the Seminole war then led Union troop in the Civil War
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received...
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Introduction
This site explores Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Content includes the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the long journey...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth
Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (April 11, 1837 - May 24, 1861) was a lawyer and soldier, best known as the first conspicuous casualty of the American Civil War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fithugh Lee
(1835-1905) Soldier in the Civil War for the Confederates. Governor of Virginia.
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: General Ambrose Everett Burnside
Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824 - 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. Burnside was a Union Army general in the Civil War and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Pickett
(1825-1875) American soldier serving in the Civil War as a Confederate
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Henry Whitney Bellows
Henry Whitney Bellows was an American clergyman, and the planner and president of the United States Sanitary Commission, the leading soldiers' aid society, during the American Civil War.