Overview :Before the start of the Civil War, Georgia had ten railroads, five of which figured significantly in General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Ca... Read More
Overview :Today, most people think of the board game Monopoly when the Reading1 Railroad is mentioned ("Take a Ride on the Reading"). But there is muc... Read More
Overview :There were many technological developments during the Civil War, including rifled artillery, repeating rifles, trench warfare, armored ships... Read More
Overview :This book looks at the history of Colonial Georgia from 1732-1800. It includes the founding of Georgia as a colony by James Oglethorpe, its ... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More
Overview :The heroes and heroines of the American Revolution were monumental figures that changed not only America but the world. Some of them were br... Read More
Overview :Nevada provides especially fertile grounds for studying ghost towns, as the hot desert air has preserved even many 100-year old wooden build... Read More
Overview :The Civil War started in Kansas in the latter half of the 1850s, when Free-State and Pro-slavery forces fought a bloody series of battles no... Read More
Overview :In late July of 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman sent two large cavalry forces under Edward McCook and George Stoneman south of Atlanta to des... Read More
Overview :The Arizona desert provides splendid examples of ghost towns (Ruby, Duquesne, Courtland) and historic towns (former boom towns that have sur... Read More
Overview :South Carolina, the first state to secede, had no single huge battle, a la Antietam, Chickamauga or Gettysburg. However, it experienced two ... Read More
Overview :Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central A... Read More
Overview :After the Civil War, it was natural that veterans would band together to protect the sense of camaraderie that they experienced during the w... Read More
Overview :Georgia has a rich Civil War heritage, perhaps second only to Virginia. Several major battles were fought here - Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mount... Read More
Overview :The period between the Old and New Testaments lasted from about 430 B.C. until the time of Jesus. Ancient historian Flavius Josephus tells u... Read More
Overview :While Missouri remained in the Union during the course of the Civil War, it had one of the most divided populations in terms of its loyaltie... Read More
Overview :Mojave National Preserve was established in 1994 through the California Desert Protection Act. Its 1.6 million acres makes it the third larg... Read More