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“Sturbridge Lion” that was imported from England for use for the Delaware and Hudson canal Railroad Company. The engine arrived in New York on May 17, 1829. The first locomotive built in America for actual service on a railroad was for the Charleston and Augusta railroad company. It was built it New York City and immediately after the engine was finished it was placed on the railroad. The first experiment with the train was made in November of 1830. Prior to the trial another trial was made with…

Cited Cox, Karen Lynne. “Women, The Lost Cause and The New South: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Transmission of the Confederate Culture, 1894-1919” (Ph.D. dissertation, 1997). Whites, LeeAnn. The Civil War as a crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890 (1995). Weir, Robert E. “Shoemakers Strike of 1860.” Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor, edited by Roberts E. Weir and James P. Hanlan, ABC-CLIO, 2004. Credo Reference,…

Coming off of the “Era of Good Feelings”, the United States government was on the brink of a revolution. During this period there was a renewal of the National bank, a rise in prices for former Native American lands, as well as tariff against cheap British goods, which began to drive a rift in between the only active political party, the Democratic-Republicans. Although unified in their dislike of the Federalist party and mistrust of large government, The Democratic-Republican party had grown…

After the battle of Saratoga the British army would suffer a defeat that would incur both an embarrassing defeat and crippling blow when it came to the French entrance into the war. During the Southern Campaigns, the British could contribute their failure of the campaign based on an assumption that the Southern Colonies would provide a strong enough Loyalist volunteer pool to reinforce British regulars to render support against a French invading force, and avoid deploying reinforcements from…

far away places to keep his mind off many troubling things such as his mother’s death and switching schools. Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to his father, Albert James Lewis, and his mother, Flora Augusta…

Robert E. Harril, as he was known in his earlier life was born on February 2nd, 1893. He was born in Gaffney, South Carolina. In some of his early writings while at Carolina Beach, Robert specified that he was never predestined to become a hermit.His turbulent life began early on when his mother and two of his brothers died of typhoid fever. If this was not tragic enough, his grandfather, who he looked up too, died from a runaway mule. His troubles were made worse when his father…

When has segregation ever been an appropriate time of need for the American people? There was segregation within not only the school system but a plethora of places just as well as restaurants, water fountains, buses, etc. These places and things were segregated due to the Jim Crow time. Why is places still segregated? Didn’t the Brown v. Board of Education case say that segregation has to stop in school systems? Segregation was a huge factor and still is a huge factor regardless of what…

in two medical dissertations the first one was published by Edwin Atlee and the second by Samuel Mathews. The 1800s also saw the first recorded music therapy intervention and the first recorded systematic experiment in music therapy. In 1903 Eva Augusta Vescelius founded the National Society of Musical Therapeutics. Another founder named Isa Maud IIsen started a National Association for Music in Hospitals in 1926. Years later, the first music therapy college training programs were created in…

Cultural pressures for women to follow their heritages can be a form of prison, but if they are brave enough to break tradition, their freedom awaits. Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Alice Walker give us a glimpse into three different families where women are oppressed by the traditions of their male dominated cultures. The common theme connecting “No Name Woman,” “Woman Hollering Creek,” and “Every Day Use,” is that overbearing men are the reason that women cannot have absolute…

about that they would do if they were really in that job so it’s like stimulation the job to see if they can maybe handle it. There are other examples of the uselessness of unpaid internships such as Bill Watson, a Colgate university student from Augusta. “It definitely hurt of confidence,”(ROSS PERLIN – UNPAID interns, complicit, colleges) he went on saying that he was constantly short on cash and was fearing he would have to quit the internship and go…