Topic: Australia

The unlikely US Civil War buff: Australia's envoy

AFP American Edition - 283 days ago
He owns a musket and a flask carried by soldiers in the US Civil War and has journeyed five times to Gettysburg to explore the conflict's most iconic battlefield.But this enthusiast for all things Civil War is not one of the legions ...
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A Scalawag in Georgia Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 928 days ago
The article reviews the book " 1272 The Journal ofAmerican Hisrory March 2008 land, Australia, and Fiji plantations growing cotton for the world markets suddenly opened by the American Civil War. Horne believes that the models of U.S. racial exploitation evident in ...