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...wer plants has proven to be a safe but temporary solution.<ref>Connecticut Yankee, a 619 MWe reactor on the Connecticut River, ran for 28 years between 1968

...e battle--he aimed to destroy entire Union armies and thereby undercut the Yankee will to resist Confederate independence. He won many battles but never dest ...eaming--and he seems not to have consulted any Confederate politicians (or Yankee prisoners) who could have explained politics to him. Lee's movement started

...was a physician who had immigrated from Switzerland and his mother was a [[Yankee]] from Vermont. He attended high school in Omaha, obtained a bachelor's de

...er was a physician who had immigrated from Switzerland; his mother was a [[Yankee]] from Vermont. He attended high school in Omaha, obtained a bachelor's deg

...nois formed the backbone of the new party, and Lincoln, who always admired Yankee energy and erudition, worked well with them. He assembled a complex coaliti ...even cotton states, Lincoln's election signaled a declaration of permanent Yankee hostility, and the inexorable destruction of [[states' rights]]. Led by Sou

Other Beach Jumpers operated under the cover name "Yankee Station Special Surveillance Unit," aboard fleet tugs such as the USS Cocop

...ck Jackson Turner was born in [[Portage, Wisconsin]] into a middle class [[Yankee]] family. He graduated from the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] in 188

...hn Rankin, a rancher and merchant born in Canada, and Olive Pickering, a [[Yankee]] who was the first local schoolteacher. Her parents were well-to-do and pr

Born in [[Portage, Wisconsin]] into a middle class [[Yankee]] family, Turner graduated from the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] in

* Crozier, Emmet. ''Yankee Reporters 1861-1865'' (1956)

...atives. Missionaries were preachers and educators, as well as exponents of Yankee culture. Publication and education societies promoted Christian education;

...joined them in a process of chain migration. Most bought their land from [[Yankee]] landowners who had purchased title from the federal government. The farms ...in]] the heavy German influx started in the late 1840s, changing a small [[Yankee]] settlement to a large predominantly German city. By the 1850s more than h

* Bushman, Richard L. ''From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765'' 1967.

...'The French Canadians'' (1955) 1:67–9.</ref> In Nova Scotia, with a large Yankee settlement but a powerful British naval base, neutrality prevailed.

...antic Monthly''. Merriam-Webster is based in Springfield, Massachusetts. ''Yankee'', a magazine for New Englanders, is based in Dublin, New Hampshire. * Beals, Carleton; ''Our Yankee Heritage: New England's Contribution to American Civilization'' [http://www

...and hanged; becomes martyr to North; alarms South as exemplar of fanatical Yankee abolitionist trying to start bloody race war; Republican Party disavows Bro

* Engle, Stephen D. ''Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel.'' (1993). 416 pp.

...and cultural traditions of the old country . He broke away by attending a Yankee school, Carleton College Academy (now Carleton College) in Northfield, Minn

...nce were founded. Mill owners, after rejecting the [[Lowell girls]] (young Yankee women), brought in Irish and French Canadian workers. Lowell grew to a city * Vickers, Daniel and Walsh, Vince. ''Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail.'' Yale U. Pr., 2005. 336 pp.

...d national banks, his intense race prejudice, his suspicion of the eastern Yankee, his devotion to personal liberty, his defense of the Constitution and stat