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====[[Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.]]====
Logistics win wars. Logistics is the coordination of complex operations such as moving, housing and supplying troops and their equipment. War is the ultimate test of any logistician. Thomas F. Army, Jr. argues in his new book <i>Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War</i> published by Johns Hopkins University Press that the Union's engineering prowess during Civil War gave it an distinct advantage over the Confederacy.{{Read more|Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.}}
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====[[Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff]]====
The Harvard University Press recently published Lisa Goff's new book Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor. There's a chance that one of your American ancestors lived in an American shantytown. While we may not realize it now, shantytowns were a common feature of 19th century America. Goff's book explores not only how shantytowns became a prominent feature of America's towns and cities, but why middle class Americans eventually turned on them and their residents. {{Read more|Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff}}
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Starting in 1787, states began to ratify the newly drafted federal Constitution which would determine the fate of the new American Republic. In order for the Constitution to go in effect, nine of the states needed to agree to the document. While five states quickly ratified the Constitution between December 1787 and January 1788, the country's eyes stayed on Virginia. Virginia was the most populated and largest state and it was critical for the state to ratify the Constitution to legitimize the process. {{Read more|Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri Glover}}
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[[File:Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800Cayleff.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]====[[Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and ChristianityNature's Path: Interview with Sam HaselbySusan E. Cayleff]]====Recently on TwitterAt the very end of the 19th Century, a debate broke out between Annette Gordon-Reed, Sam Haselby, new system called naturopathy was created by Benedict and John Fea on the nature of Thomas Jefferson's religious beliefsLouisa Stroebel Lust. Instead Unlike many of recreating the debate19th Century medical systems created, it made more sense naturopathy has persevered to contact one this day. Naturopathic healing was founded and based on number of the participantsinfluences including botanics, Sam Haselbyhydrotherapy, whose recent book ''The Origins of American Religious Nationalism'' (published by Oxford University Press) examines how a conflict with Protestantismeclecticism, in the decades following US independence transformed American national identitytemperance and vegetarianism.{{Read more|Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and ChristianityNature's Path: Interview with Sam HaselbySusan E. Cayleff}}
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====[[Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.]]====
Logistics win wars. Logistics is the coordination of complex operations such as moving, housing and supplying troops and their equipment. War is the ultimate test of any logistician. During the Civil War, the Union troops fought almost the entire war in the South. Thomas F. Army, Jr. argues in his new book Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War published by Johns Hopkins University Press that the Union's engineering prowess during Civil War gave it an distinct advantage over the Confederacy.{{Read more|Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.}}
