The second athenian confederacy c 378 355 bce was a coalition of greek city states led by athens for mutual protection against spartan aggression.
Decline of the second attic confederacy.
National bestseller for all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the civil war reenactors battlefield visitors confederate descendants and other southerners history fans students of current racial conflicts and more this ten state adventure is part travelogue part social commentary and always good humored.
The indian massacre of 1622 popularly known as the jamestown massacre took place in the english colony of virginia in what is now the united states on friday 22 march 1622.
This chapter attempts to elucidate the question of why the second athenian confederacy failed.
It argues that the social war was the real turning point and it is proper to see its conclusion as the failure of the confederacy.
Confederates in the attic 1998 is a work of non fiction by pulitzer prize winning author tony horwitz.
Long standing conflicts with the iroquois were ended by a treaty in 1722 but the greatly reduced powhatan population continued to decline.
Hostilities developed between the powhatan confederacy and the english settlers and resulted in intermittent fighting until 1676.
Confederates in the attic dispatches from the unfinished civil war.
When a group of theban exiles liberated the cadmea in 379 they were helped by athens though at first unofficially.
Horwitz explores his deep interest in the american civil war and investigates the ties in the united states among citizens to a war that ended more than 130 years previously.
The second athenian confederacy agesilaus however gave the wrong answer to his own question.
The cadmea episode meant that sparta would no longer have things its way.
Confederates in the attic which i first encountered in an american studies undergraduate classroom a few years after it came out is a gift to teachers of american history it s wryly funny but.
Confederates in the attic is a non fiction book written by pulitzer prize winning journalist tony horwitz the book is a mixture of ethnography the study of a specific group of people in a specific place and travel writing where horwitz attempts to dive deeply into his childhood fascination for the american civil war by traveling through the deep south visiting confederate.
