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Confederate Compatriot:

2021
Despite antebellum foci on scientific and engineering curricula, the Virginia Military Institute’s military component provided Virginia and the Confederacy with several military advantages during the Civil War. These benefits included the drilling of raw troops before the First Battle of Manassas, the Corps of Cadets serving as a unit in the ...
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On Becoming a Confederation

Physical Therapy, 1975
This paper was presented as the keynote speech at the Seventh International Congress of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy. The question of what it will take to strengthen physical therapy as a world force for the health of mankind is examined.
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The Confederate Medical Laboratories

Southern Medical Journal, 2003
During the Civil War, the scarcity and expense of imported drugs forced the Confederate Army to establish several medical laboratories to manufacture drugs for military use. The laboratories produced medicines from indigenous plants and also made non-plant-based drugs.
Guy R, Hasegawa, F Terry, Hambrecht
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Confederate Memory in Post-Confederate Atlanta—a Prolegomena

Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 2017
ABSTRACT The landscape surrounding a memory site strongly influences how it is perceived by the people who visit it. As landscapes are prone to change over time, it is important to acknowledge the ways that such change exerts influence over visitors’ experiences.
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The 'Confederate' Blockade of the South

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001
We show that Southern trade and the Southern economy were primarily harmed by the Confederate government’s economic and military policies. The Union blockade fleet and coastal bases were a necessary condition, but it was the policies of the Confederate government that made the closure of international trade and the destruction of the Southern economy ...
Robert B. Ekelund, Mark Thornton
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A confederate's Perspective on Deception

Ethics & Behavior, 1991
In this article, I outline my position regarding the use of deception in psychology experiments, based on my experience as a confederate. I describe an experiment I participated in and the problems resulting from the study: subjects' differing responses to the deception; angry reactions of some subjects to the experiment; and the general discomfort of ...
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The Background of The Articles of Confederation

Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 1982
In the summer of 1776, during initial debates over the Articles of Confederation, John Witherspoon, the learned president of Princeton University and a delegate to the second Continental Congress from New Jersey, reflected upon the astonishing events of the previous two years.
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Confederation

2007
Abstract On his arrival in Chicago in the fall of 1895, the Texas Populist John Flaherty found the reform movement in the big city mired in an ideological muddle. “To you Texas populists who have a fixed and sound idea of the political and monetary conditions,” he wrote the Southern  Mercury back in Dallas, “it is incomprehensible how ...
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Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly:

2020
This chapter focuses on the decision of several of Britain’s North American colonies to develop a political confederation for domestic self-governance in the 1860s while eschewing external sovereignty. Bringing insights from U.S. historiography to bear on recent studies of British identity, Smith finds an additional motive for Confederation not often ...
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