WebEric Foner (/ ˈ f oʊ n ər /; born February 7, 1943) is an American historian.He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African-American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University …

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WebEric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH FRSL FBA (/ ˈ h ɒ b z. b ɔː m /; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism.A life-long Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" (The Age …

WebJohnny Reb is the national personification of the common soldier of the Confederacy.During the American Civil War and afterwards, Johnny Reb and his Union counterpart Billy Yank were used in speech and literature to symbolize the common soldiers who fought in the Civil War in the 1860s. The symbolic image of Johnny Reb in Southern culture has been …

WebSteven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay Schindler's List (1993) and has earned Oscar nominations for the films Awakenings, Gangs of New York, Moneyball and The Irishman.He was presented …

WebEl historiador Eric Foner sostiene que las obras de Paine «forjan un nuevo lenguaje político» destinado a acercar la política al pueblo, utilizando «un estilo claro, sencillo y directo». [35] Paine ha creado «una nueva visión, una imagen utópica de una sociedad igualitaria y republicana» y su lenguaje refleja estos ideales. [35]

WebThomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped …

WebThe Treaty of Greenville, formally titled Treaty with the Wyandots, etc., was a 1795 treaty between the United States and indigenous nations of the Northwest Territory (now Midwestern United States), including the Wyandot and Delaware peoples, that redefined the boundary between indigenous peoples' lands and territory for European American …

WebA Guerra Civil Americana, também conhecida como Guerra de Secessão ou Guerra Civil dos Estados Unidos (ver os nomes atribuídos ao evento), foi uma guerra civil travada nos Estados Unidos de 1861 a 1865, entre a União e os Confederados. [f] Sua causa principal foi a longa controvérsia sobre a escravização dos negros.O conflito eclodiu em abril de …

WebSep 29, 2014 · As America's most fearless purveyor of "truthiness," Stephen Colbert shines a light on ego-driven punditry, moral hypocrisy and government incompetence, raising the bar for political satire.