When Americans disagreed on the power of individual states to control their respective governments and institutions, they fought a war, between themselves, during 1861 to 1865. Other countries have also fought "civil wars." These stories focus on those people, places and events.
Reforms are set into motion to make Ireland independent.
South Carolina History Standard 8-5.2 Describe the economic impact of Reconstruction on South Carolina in each of the various social classes
Eighty years later, on the anniversary of their brutal execution, the Russian people lay the Romanov family to rest in St. Petersburg.
Nicholas' coronation feast causes the death of about 2,000 people and his reign causes Russia many military losses.
Does Mary know that Booth, her son John, and others are meeting at her boardinghouse to plot the kidnapping of the president?
8-4.1 Importance of agriculture in antebellum South Carolina
A murder attempt on Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, leader of the Huguenots (Protestants), starts a massacre.
Dwellings are destroyed to ensure that the homeless of Ireland have no place to go.
As Russia is in full-scale revolution, the entire Romanov family is executed.
Many plead for mercy, but Mary Surratt and three other conspirators hang on July 7, 1865.
Douglass's writings earn him fame and such friends as Abraham Lincoln and other former slaves Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman.
Tone is taken prisoner with his French colleagues and is charged as a traitor to Britain.
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