Korea: Where The Cold War Never Ends | Thebulletin.org As 1992 began, the end of the Cold war seemed to have brought several Unlike Germany, Korea suffered a terrible civil war, with millions killed, http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=jf97cumings
The Charlotte - Mecklenburg Story - History Timeline The American civil war (18611865) Economic and social divisions between northern This war will be the bloodiest and most violent in Americas history. http://www.cmstory.org/history/timeline/default.asp?tp=9&ev=0
Extractions: Published by EH.NET (August 2005) Timothy J. Minchin, Fighting against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor since World War II . Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. xiv + 232 pp. $59.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-8130-2790-X. Reviewed for EH.NET by Gerald Friedman, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. If the United States is "exceptional," it is because of the South. At the end of World War II, politics and labor relations in the northern states of the United States resembled those of the United Kingdom or continental Europe with a unionization rate of about 40 percent in the northern U.S. and a New Deal Democratic Party that favored national health insurance and an economic bill of rights similar to the program of European Labor and Socialist Parties. It was the low unionization rate and reactionary political climate of the Southern that has made the United States different. Reactionary southern politics has pulled the American political economy to the right, preventing the establishment of a European-style social welfare state and undermining unionization and union wages in the rest of the United States. Timothy Minchin explores one element of southern exceptionalism, the weakness of southern unions. This is an old problem; as far back as the late-nineteenth century, southern labor unions were relatively weak compared with their northern counterparts. But southern union weakness became particularly conspicuous after rapid union growth in the 1930s established strong unions throughout the North. Union weakness denied southern workers the benefits of union organization. By keeping down southern wages it preserved a wide North-South wage differential and limited southern social welfare benefits. It also endangered the wage and political gains made by northern unions. This made southern unionization, as a prominent union leader quoted by Minchin declared in 1949: "the most important organizational problem facing the CIO today" (p. 185).
African-American History Here, you can find everything you need to know about black history. to attemptto maintain the way of life they had known prior to the civil war. http://afroamhistory.about.com/
Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help African-American History Homework Help ... Help zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/7.htm','');w(xb+xb); Sign Up Now for the African-American History newsletter! The breaking of the levees during Hurricane Katrina is not the first time that the levees holding the Mississippi River have burst. In 1927, the Great Mississippi Flood occurred after several levees collapsed. Among the affected areas was the community of Greenville, Mississippi, which tackled the issue of whether to evacuate its black residents. Ultimately, the deceit and greed of the planters would determine the fate of the black populace.
Correction History Quest Researchers history researcher David Minor checked US and UK regional dictionaries and noted a links page to assorted history sites;; back issues of odds ends, http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/searches/searches3b.html
Extractions: Correction History Quests Hq Researchers NYCHS webmaster note: David Minor of Eagles Byte Historical Research, Pittsford, NY (dminor@eznet.net) has long been a resource for and contributor of historical information appearing on our NYCHS web site. His own Eagles Byte web site includes NYNY, a series of timelines covering New York City and State. Here are some bio notes on David Minor who may have come up with the answer to how NYC DOC's punitive segregation cells came to be called The Bing. B orn in Batavia, New York, April 17, 1940; graduated from Batavia High School in 1958.
At The End Of A Gun | Bullfrog Films The devastating effect that the civil war in Sri Lanka is having on women. Educating Lucia The odds are against girls getting an education in Zimbabwe http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/lsateg.html
Extractions: Druki Martenstyne's son Jason died in September 1995. Her husband, Cedric, went missing in January 1996. "I know the pain," she says. "I've suffered my son dying, and that we can accept we can move on and go back to our memories. But not knowing is something very, very difficult. Some people say they have seen him in chains, but I don't know how far that is true." Druki's family fell victim to the bloody civil war between the Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government forces that has been tearing the island of Sri Lanka apart for the last 17 years. But she's not alone. With more than 30 regional and ethnic conflicts taking place around the world, this program reports from Sri Lanka on the suffering of thousands of women widowed, displaced, detained, separated from husbands, children and other loved ones as a result of wars.
Slavery In The Civil War Era The legal end to slavery in the nation came in December 1865 when the Thirteenth Moreover, when, during the civil war, Southerners confronted a manpower http://www.civilwarhome.com/slavery.htm
Extractions: Slavery In The Civil War Era Over the years there has been a wealth of information written about the "peculiar institution" (as it was called then) of slavery in the Civil War era. Some of it accurate, some of it fantasy. The following attempts to give a brief picture of what it was like. It consists of three articles: Antebellum Slavery, Slavery During the Civil War, which discusses the "peculiar institution" before and during the war, and finally, Slave Life, which discusses the daily lives of slaves, their society and culture. The source for this page was: Circumstances in the newly formed Southern states were quite different. The African American population, both slave and free, was much larger. In Virginia and South Carolina in 1790 nearly half of the population was of African descent. (Historians have traditionally assumed that South Carolina had a black majority population throughout its preCivil War history. But census figures for 1790 to 1810 show that the state possessed a majority of whites.) Other Southern states also had large black minorities. Because of their ingrained racial prejudice and ignorance about the sophisticated cultures in Africa from which many of their slaves came, Southern whites were convinced that free blacks would be savagesa threat to white survival. So Southerners believed that slavery was necessary as a means of race control.
Life Through Art's Prism very largely selftaught, who came to the fore during the civil war and did But that, too, will change, because in the end, worth always receives http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2005-07/prism.html
Extractions: Life Through Art's Prism When NEH Chairman Bruce Cole spoke recently with British writer Paul Johnson, the subject was Johnson's latest book, Art: A New History . He is the author of several other books on contemporary culture, among them History of the American People The Birth of the Modern The Intellectuals , and History of the Jews. Bruce Cole: Let's talk about your new book on art. This has been something that you've been thinking about for a very long time. Paul Johnson: Yes. In it I shift the climax of European art from the early sixteenth century to the early seventeenth century. It's a point which I think is worth noting. I think the early seventeenth century was the richest period in the whole history of art, with the largest number of painters and also sculptors. You've got Bernini, who is one of my top ten artists. Cole: And Caravaggio, of course. Johnson: Yes, Caravaggio, but also I mean Rubens, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Vermeer. There is a tremendous concentration of talent there, whereas at the early sixteenth century you're very dependent on the big three. Cole: Right.
One-page History Of Jazz W/RealAudio Multipart RealAudio lecture history and analysis of jazz. At the end of theCivil war four million slaves were freed. Many still remembered the music of http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/jazz.html
Extractions: [Up: Favorite music] [Robot Wisdom home page] with RealAudio illustrations This is only half-done. Large sections are just clippings from the sources listed here: DMoz directory Doug's Timeline , multipage overview ditto Britannica artists/hits list Books: Gridley's "Concise Guide to Jazz" [Amazon w/CD] ; DeVeaux'x "Birth of Bebop" [Amzn] ; Count Basie's "Good Morning Blues" [Amzn] Most of the song-links on this page lead to another page that offers a full-length RealAudio of the song. Where I couldn't find full-length, I used Amazon samples. To minimize the annoyance of switching back and forth from this page to the others, try multiwindow surfing This Amazon page has a zillion relevant samples, from every era. A much shorter selection from Joplin to Spyro Gyra. A CD history of jazz drumming but with no samples. . Multipart RealAudio lecture history and analysis of jazz. Generalizations Jazz is about black musicians discovering the range of European instruments. This required mastering European music theory (eg for key changes). It took many decades because of limited educational opportunities.
