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The significance of the geography of the Gettysburg battlefield is even more interesting when you consider that neither army intended to fight a battle there. General Robert E. Lee, upon learning...

Yes. Harriet Robinson Scott was freed along with her husband in May, 1857, after they were sold by their owner, Irene Emerson Chaffee, to the son's of Dred Scott's original owner, Peter Blow. Dred...

The imperial rivalries among Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) were the cause of World War I, but it was nationalism within a couple of...

Adam Smith's purpose in writing The Wealth of Nations was to critique and offer an alternative to the mercantilist economic system, which he believed would eventually stifle countries'...

The entry of America into World War I in April, 1917 had three main effects on the allied cause, of which the actual appearance of American troops on the battlefield was the last and perhaps least...