Robert Baden-Powell, Founder of the World Scout Movement, Chief Scout of the World The portrait of Baden-Powell at the top of this page is from the 1929 painting by David Jagger. It was presented to B-P on August 6, 1929 at the III World Jamboree at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, England. This was known as the Coming of Age Jamboree as it marked the 21st anniversary of Scouting. The portrait was ...

Based on the lives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojurner Truth and others this site is an Internet based curriculum enhancement tool for Black History education programs. The Internet African American History Challenge consists of test questions based on the lives of important 19th century African Americans. The questions are based on biographical profiles (available at the ...

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park tells the story of people and events that influenced the course of our nation's history. This site witnessed the first successful application of interchangeable manufacture, the arrival of the first successful American railroad, John Brown's attack on slavery, the largest surrender of Federal troops during the Civil War, and the education of former slaves ...

Factual information on the Clanton's, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, John Ringo and the famous OK Corral gunfight.

Extensive site dealing with the raid on Harper's Ferry and the surrounding events.

Research and study of Confederate Major General Edward Johnson ...

James Healy was the first African-American Catholic Bishop.

Patrick Healy was the first African-American to be president of a predominantly white university.

Jefferson Davis served as Senator and Secretary of War before his election as President of the Confederate States of America.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers An On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library, Duke University Images and Transcripts from the Collection About Rose O'Neal Greenhow About the collection at Duke Read items from the collection More information about the Special Collections Library and related collections Statement on use and reproduction About the digitized version of this collection ...

Extensive information about the president of the Confederacy and his family, including biographical chronology, genealogy, and photographs.

Biography of Thomas Nast and more than twenty of his political cartoons, documenting his campaign against the Tweed Ring and other contributions to American political culture.

John Bell Hood was a brilliant tactician who reached his nadir when promoted to command of the Army of the Tennessee.

The Story of One Union Soldier Private Bernard McKnight - Massachusetts 3rd Cavalry 1838 - 1864 Early Life Coming to America Civilian to Soldier Action on the Mississippi Capture at Port Hudson Andersonville Prison Epilogue Documents / References Bernard was an Irish immigrant who came to America in the late 1850s. He brought his wife and young child with him and settled in Taunton, ...

The University of South Carolina prides itself on its reputation as one of the foremost institutions in the United States for the study of Scottish literature. The Thomas Cooper Library is fortunate to have one of the foremost collections of Scottish literature anywhere outside of Scotland. Many of its valuable holdings are part of the G. Ross Roy Collection of Scottish Literature and the Rodger ...

A website devoted to the figure of Cecil John Rhodes, and the solving of the mystery of who built Great Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe Ruins), and for what purpose.

Richard Oastler Education on the Internet & Teaching History Online To receive your free copy every week enter your email address below. FREE Education Newsletters - choose below... Education on the Internet Teaching History Online Email: Let keepAhead.com bring you the world by email Spartacus, USA History, British History, Second World War, First World War, Germany, Child Labour, Parliamentary ...

Harriet Tubman Researcher: Rachel Sahlman Artist: Dick Strandberg Harriet Ross was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820. Her parents were from the Ashanti tribe of West Africa, and they worked as slaves on the Brodas plantation. In addition to producing lumber, Edward Brodas raised slaves to rent and sell. Life was difficult on the plantation, and Harriet was hired out as a laborer by the ...

Jefferson Davis - President of the Confederate States of America ...

Welcome toThe Kennedy Farmhouse Abolitionist John Brown's staging area for raid on Harpers Ferry ...

John Brown's Fort 1859 (75K JPG) c.1862 (47K JPG) c.1885 (46K JPG) 1896 (43K JPG) c.1915 (78K JPG) 1968 (68K JPG) 1985 (59K JPG) 1995 (73K JPG) Click on a thumbnail to retrieve a larger version of each image THE STRUCTURE WE NOW CALL JOHN BROWN'S FORT WAS ERECTED IN 1848 as the Armory s fire engine and guard house. The building was described in a June 30, 1848, Armory report: An engine and ...

Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War Doctor, is a Women of Courage profile, produced by the St. Lawrence County, NY Branch of the American Association of University Women.

The life of Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (or Cixi), who started as a concubine and ended up ruling China.

Edward St John Daniel, VC, the story of the first man to forfeit the Victoria Cross ...

McCormick Farm A five-acre memorial plot at the Shenandoah AREC pays tribute to Cyrus McCormick and the ingenuity of the McCormick family. The memorial area is designated a National Historic Landmark and Virginia Wayside site, and is toured by thousands of visitors every year. Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the first sucessful reaper and founded the harvesting machine industry. In July 1831, at ...

Rhodes, Cecil John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...

John Brown's Raid In the winter of 1857-58, John Brown, who had been a leader in and a promoter of lawlessness during the troubles in Kansas--undertaken, as he himself confessed, for the purpose of inflaming the public mind on the subject of slavery, that he might perfect organizations to bring about servile insurrections in the slave States----collected a number of young men in that territory, ...

Leffert Lefferts Buck, 19th Century Bridge Builder 1837-1909 View a Larger Portrait Read a Short Biography About the SLCHA Quarterly Buck Biogragphy Photos of some Existing Bridges of L.L. Buck Some Links: (to Return, use browser's Back button) Member of R.P.I.Alumni Hall of Fame (see Page 2) A Brief History of the Williamsburg Bridge Williamsburg Bridge (HAER) (Historic American Engineering ...

About History Buff History Library Audio/Video Library Presidential Library Newspaper Resources Online Newspaper Archives Interactive Quizes State Facts: Select State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana ...

This website is made possible by the generous support of Idaho Humanities Council, the University of Idaho Library, and the John C. Smith Memorial Fund This website requires Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape 4.0 browers. ...

Surgeon, spy, author, this New York feminist served the Union Army on the field of battle at Chickamauga and the battle for Atlanta.

Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born, like Abraham Lincoln, in Kentucky. His family seems to have been of modest circumstances, and soon moved to the newly opened southern frontier in Mississippi. Possessing great intelligence and imagination, Davis was educated at a number of institutions, including Transylvania University before entering West Point, from which he was graduated.

Biographical Description of Prince Maximilian of Wied (1782-1867).

A biography of colonialist Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia. Includes references to Rhodesia, Kimberley diamond mines, De Beers diamond company, Lobengula, Ndebele, Shona, Bulawayo Museum of Natural History, Matopos National Park, and ...

Biography of Alexis de Tocqueville written by Harvard students.

This site offers contemporary and historic information concerning Black America and the Underground Railroad.

Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (1812-1862) This Tennessee-born newspaper editor and Whig politician fought in the Seminole War as a first lieutenant, held various offices in Tennessee and served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1853-59). Although a staunch supporter of states' rights, he worked to avoid a confrontation between North and South and attended the 1861 peace conference in Washington.

Notes on historical film and video relating to Botswana and Africa ...

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, LEADER OF THE LATE INSURRECTION IN SOUTHAMPTON, VA. As fully and voluntarily made to THOMAS R. GRAY, In the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him to be such when read before the Court of Southampton; with the certificate, under seal of the Court convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, for his trial. ALSO, AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE WHOLE INSURRECTION ...

JOHN BROWN RAID PHOTOS/ILLUSTRATIONS A staunch abolitionist, John Brown led a raid on the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry (Jefferson County) in October 1859, in an attempt to establish a colony for freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland. Brown was captured and hanged for treason in Charles Town on December 2, 1859. John Brown (1800-1859) Engraving by J. C. Buttre. United ...

JOSIAH HENSON Josiah Henson spent thirty years on a plantation in Montgomery County, Maryland before he escaped slavery and became a Methodist preacher, abolitionist, lecturer, and founder of a cooperative colony of former slaves in Canada. His memoirs, published in 1849, provided Harriet Beecher Stowe with her model of Uncle Tom. Henson describes his father's reaction to an overseer's attempt ...

JOHN BROWN'S GHOST Harper's Ferry, West Virginia To the slaves of the south, John Brown was an unrealized savior... to those men who opposed him, this face was the last vision they ever saw. (Left) John Brown in his earlier days Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery...... John Brown, 1837 Along the streets of Harper's Ferry, West ...

Program Title Rhodes Based On The life of Cecil Rhodes Adapted By Antony Thomas Episodes: 1 2 3 Description Cecil Rhodes is one of the most controversial figures in the history of the British empire. Born in 1853, he went to Africa at the age of 17. When he was 20, he suffered his second heart attack and was given 6 months to live. Before he was 35, his company, DeBeers, controlled 95% of the ...

Civil War And the Western Frontier General H. B. Carrington Henry Beebee Carrington served as Colonel and Brigadier General in the Union Army. He is best known for his role in the Fetterman Massacre, and also for his zealous pursuit of northerners disloyal to the Union. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Photographs of General Carrington With other ...

When he surrendered his twenty-six hundred man cavalry brigade on May 17, 1865 near Munford, Alabama, this individual, who had fought forty-two major battles and many minor skirmishes, became the last commander of a major unit to capitulate to Federal forces, thus ending the conflict in the states east of the Mississippi. He had privately stated prior to the war when visiting Washington and ...

HENRY CABOT LODGE: For Intervention in Cuba Source: Record, 54 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 1971-1972. I, UNITED WITH THE REST of the Committee on Foreign Relations, with a single exception, in reporting the concurrent resolution which is now before the Senate. I will say, however, with perfect frankness, that I for one should be very glad if the Senate should see fit to go further in this direction; for ...

John Brown (1800-1859) John Brown was an American abolitionist, born in Connecticut and raised in Ohio. He felt passionately and violently that he must personally fight to end slavery. In 1856, in retaliation for the sack of Lawrence, he led the murder of five proslavery men on the banks of the Pottawatamie River. He stated that he was an instrument in the hand of God. Brown did not end there.

Soci 50 May 27 Notes on Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville was a French aristocrat (as we shall see, this was important in how he understood what the US was like) who lived from 1805-1859. He came to the US for nine months in 1831 to observe revisions of the prison system, but ended up seeing so much more. His two-volume work Democracy in America (the final volume was published in 1840) was an ...