What role did the Radical Republicans play in getting the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments added to the Constitution during the Reconstruction Era? Who did the
15th Amendment ignore?
What were the different ways the Federal government interacted with Native Americans during the expansion of the West during the Gilded Age? How did Native Americans respond and why?
This is what I found so far but Im not getting it :
For most of the first half of the 19th century the US treat...
The United States treated Native American tribes as sovereign states. Relations with various tribes were governed by a series of (often broken) treaties.
At the same time, however, general territorial claims in North America were resolved between the United States and other powers as if the Nat...
I searched the Yale Avalon archive. They only have the 1946 trials. No mention of the Soviet trials or 1951.
Where are these transcripts? Were they never kept?
I was reading about Hernando de Soto and saw William Powell's painting (Relevant bit cropped and added below):
The odd thing (Marked with a red arrow) is the man who looks Moorish and is dressed in Moorish Military attire unlike the other people in the party. Of course the painting was created...
My teacher said in a motivational speech that there was a person (some king or duke etc) who had to make a speech/sermon after assuming his hereditary office. But when he appeared before the public he couldn't say a word because he was afraid of public speaking. So the people jokingly named him L...
Wikipedia says that the einsatzgruppen were mainly Slavs. Was the Nazi contribution only a few dozen men? Because slavs have been killing Jews since forever and killed hundreds of thousands of them in the 20s and 30s.
When the US declared itself independent in 1776, did it simply consider all people (of a certain demographic) already living in the US as citizens? Or did these people have to apply to become citizens somehow? For example, did Benjamin Franklin become a US citizen as soon as the US began existing?