Very little is known about women who lived in ancient Rome. A respectable woman was expected to keep a low profile and stay away from the general public. Virtues such as modesty and were crucial for a woman. […]
The battle, and eventual win, of the Union Army at Chattanooga brought about a lot of changes in terms of strategy and leadership. Ulysses Grant was made the General-in-Chief, however, Braxton Bragg was removed from his position. Besides, the victory also boosted the Union morale which had gone through some rough times before this battle. […]
The Industrial Revolution ushered in a new era of prosperity for the American republic. However, this prosperity led to bitterness between the entrepreneurs and the erstwhile artisans and between the entrepreneurs and the operatives. […]
It took almost 50 years from the time the spinning jenny was invented in England until factory-based cotton textile manufacturing became a major force in the American economy. […]
The Industrial Revolution can be thought of as really consisting of four smaller, separate but related revolutions involving the invention—or in some cases the reinvention—of machines, power, labor, and capital. […]
The diplomatic struggle was finally won by the North and it received recognition from the major European powers, including Britain and France. There were some blips in between, like the crisis over the Laird rams in the summer of 1863, and the French intervention in Mexico under Napoleon III. […]
When London and Paris looked at what was going on in America, they saw a Confederate nation with a written constitution, with a formal government, with an army in the field, and with a foreign policy. They said that’s a belligerent. And the United States, after all, was blockading the Confederacy. […]
The South went into the war believing that its cotton was absolutely necessary to the British economy. And, the Confederates believed that if that supply were denied, then a big portion of the British economy would be disrupted. That’s when they came up with the ‘King Cotton’ strategy to win over Great Britain and establish diplomatic ties with it. […]
Herodotus is almost our best source to know about the process of mummification since tomb illustrations and papyri such as the Ritual of Embalming Papyrus do not provide the surgical details of the process. […]
The Rhind Bilingual Papyri tell us the details regarding embalming and some rituals around it, though no specifics abut the actual process of mummification itself. […]
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