Popular Footnote Pages, 41-60

• A Polar Bear in North Russia

  This series of posts highlights my paternal great-grandfather's service in the American North Russian Expeditionary Forces at the end of World War I.

  by kidmiff

  Updated 14 Oct 2009 - 313 views this week (41,279 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 10 stories

• Thomas Paine

  Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England, to a father who worked as a corset maker. From his beginnings, it seems unlikely that this boy would one day…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 28 Jan 2009 - 305 views this week (5,122 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• CONFEDERATE AFRICAN AMERICANS~CIVIL WAR

  Military history of African Americans is that of African Americans in the United States since the arrival of the first black slaves in 1619 to the present…

  by bgill

  Updated 30 Jul 2009 - 304 views this week (12,224 total)

  Contributions 18 images, 1 comment, 38 stories

• Aneta Stamulis Peyovich (1895-1981)

  A memorial to my Greek (and Bohemian) grandmother from Serbia

  by JMMcD

  Updated 15 Nov 2009 - 301 views this week (3,931 total)

  Contributions 7 images, 6 stories

• Luka Misov Peyovich (1891-1963)

  A memorial to my Serbian grandfather from Montenegro

  by JMMcD

  Updated 15 Nov 2009 - 300 views this week (3,881 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 7 stories

• Adolf Hitler

  Adolf Hitler began his life with artistic aspirations and a critical father. This awkward loner relied on hate and ambition to rise to Fuhrer in Germany.…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 02 Dec 2008 - 299 views this week (7,548 total)

  Contributions 11 images, 1 story

• The Battle of Saratoga

  The Battle of Saratoga was one of the important American victories in the American Revolution. The victory not only prevent the British from cutting off…

  by Edward1026 and others can contribute.

  Updated 04 Nov 2009 - 298 views this week (1,910 total)

  Contributions 10 images, 4 stories

• Female hangings 1632 to 1900

  It is thought that altogether around 505 women were put to death in the U. S. between 1608 and 1900. At least eight teenage girls were hanged. Hannah…

  by bgill

  Updated 02 Sep 2009 - 288 views this week (11,346 total)

  Contributions 1 story

• Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Laura Ingalls Wilder was raised on the American frontier. Her father Charles acquired a homestead in the American back-country that later inspired Laura…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 18 Dec 2008 - 288 views this week (6,595 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 1 comment

• The Great Depression

  Overproduction, over-speculation, and isolationist policies caused the greatest economic depression in United States history. Beginning with the stock…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 16 May 2009 - 286 views this week (8,642 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Samuel Morgan LEWIS b. Jamestown, VA

  This is one of my GGGrandfth's, the father of John Henry LEWIS b. Portsmouth, VA. He also, joined the CONFEDERATE cause in spite of his age, due to the…

  by llighthse

  Updated 17 Oct 2009 - 284 views this week (8,888 total)

  Contributions 34 images, 6 stories

• Native American Indian Documents

  Footnote is proud to feature almost 2,000,000 Native American Indian Documents which our currently on our site. All of these Indian records are indexed as…

  by gorgeriverman

  Updated 20 Nov 2009 - 277 views this week (277 total)

  Contributions 13 images, 9 stories

• Confederate African Americans~Civil War

  Page Two~Black Confederate Participation "...And after the battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, ...reported among the rebel prisoners were seven blacks in…

  by bgill

  Updated 24 Aug 2007 - 272 views this week (44,954 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 7 stories

• Susanna Martin - Salem Witch Trial

  Prior to the Salem witch trials, over one hundred individuals were accused of being witches in America. Nineteen of them were executed. Then came Salem…

  by ldrew

  Updated 11 Jan 2009 - 268 views this week (14,881 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 2 comments, 37 stories

• Harold Godwinson

  The last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold's reign was short but would forever impact the history of England. Afterward he was praised as a hero in…

  by Whistler

  Updated 19 Nov 2009 - 263 views this week (11,630 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 1 comment, 8 stories

• Thomas Edison

  Thomas Edison is probably most famous for his work on inventing the light bulb, though he also worked on the phonograph. He was a very busy inventor,…

  by jdw21 and others can contribute.

  Updated 19 Oct 2009 - 260 views this week (4,848 total)

  Contributions 4 images, 3 comments

• The Ultimate Slave Resistance

  The practice of harnessing supernatural forces and spirits for one’s own personal use, known in some parts of Africa as ‘Obeye’ (an entity that…

  by bgill

  Created 11 Jul 2007 - 259 views this week (2,673 total)

  Contributions 7 images, 7 stories

• A Slave Ship Speaks

  The wreck of the Henrietta Marie

  by bgill

  Updated 10 Jul 2007 - 259 views this week (7,105 total)

  Contributions 13 images, 16 stories

• RMS Titanic Timeline

  The last days of the 'unsinkable' ocean liner on April 15, 1912

  by chris

  Updated 25 Sep 2009 - 255 views this week (25,678 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 7 comments, 8 stories

• Abraham Lincoln

  Abraham Lincoln became the president of the United States during the most divisive period of U.S. history. He gained national attention during the Senate…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 22 Jun 2009 - 253 views this week (17,586 total)

  Contributions 31 images, 5 comments, 3 stories