The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States
How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson chose his words carefully. Few could have been more deliberate than 'When in the Course of human events,' the phrase with which he opened the Declaration of Independence. As Steven Sarson shows, the original Declaration moved ......
Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Arizona and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. The heliograph network in the Southwest, which began development in 1882, used mirror-based ......
Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Arizona and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. The heliograph network in the Southwest, which began development in 1882, used mirror-based ......
Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America
Tenacious activism by Quakers, African Americans, and antislavery evangelicals made antislavery central to the American Revolution In Let the Oppressed Go Free, Nicholas P. Wood presents the opponents of slavery who sustained and expanded the antislavery movement during the American Revolution in the face of widespread hostility. These early ......
Collective Visions in the Making of the American West
With some 400 members, the California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth century. In The California Camera Club, Carolin Goe rgen recaptures the lost history of this community - and reveals its critical but little-known role in defining the popular image of California, and the American West ......
According to the Book of Mormon, dissent wracked the Hebrew prophet Lehi's family after they traveled to the Americas around BC. A son, Laman, led rebellious followers who became 'Lamanites,' cursed by God with a 'skin of blackness.' In the nineteenth century, Joseph Smith, the first prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and ......
Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis
During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted, or "enslaved," as nineteenth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans, their families, and communities struggled to cope with addiction's health and social ......
Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis
During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted, or "enslaved," as nineteenth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans, their families, and communities struggled to cope with addiction's health and social ......
The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark
Best known for his role in the arrest and killing of Crazy Horse and for the book he wrote, The Indian Sign Language, Captain William Philo Clark (1845-1884) was one of the Old Army's renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat, explorer, and ethnologist. As such, Clark found himself at center stage during some of the most momentous ......
