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...On-line versions of ''Walden'', ''The Maine Woods'', ''Cape Cod'', and ''A Yankee in Canada'', plus several of his essays, including ''Civil Disobedience'',

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{{dambigbox||Yankee}} ...sidents of [[New England]], as used by [[Mark Twain]] in ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]''. During and after the [[American Civil War]], it

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* Bennett, Michael J. ''Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War'' (2003) * Durham, Roger S. ''High Seas and Yankee Gunboats: A Blockade-Running Adventure from the Diary of James Dickson.'' U

...t during the [[Vietnam War]], fired from escorts of [[Task Force 77]] on [[YANKEE Station]]. An [[anti-radiation missile]] variant was also used, in combat,

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...lish boy king [[Edward VI]]. Somewhere between the two is ''A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court'', a fantasy novel satirising chivalric conventions. ...8: ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,'' ''Roughing It'' and ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'']

* Swift, Louis Franklin and Arthur Van Vlissingen (1927) ''The Yankee of the Yards: The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift''. A.W. Shaw and Com

...sin Magazine of History,'' Vol. 6, No. 2, Dec. 1922, pp. 125-145, compares Yankee and German settlers

...9, 1848 as 30th state, Wisconsin has been ethnically heterogeneous, with [[Yankee]]s being among the first to arrive from [[New York (disambiguation)|New Yor

* Yankee Grab

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...shed: ''The Maine Woods'' (Boston, 1863); ''Cape Cod'' (Boston, 1865); ''A Yankee in Canada'' (Boston, 1866). In the [[Atlantic Monthly]], in 1862, appeared

Hayes was a Victorian gentleman from a [[Yankee]] family that had resettled in Ohio. His father died befoire he was born, b

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...ated in the [[South China Sea]], in varying locations generically called [[YANKEE Station]].

...ees]] from the Northeast and upper Midwest. It was especially powerful in Yankee areas of upstate New York, western Massachusetts, and northern Ohio.

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...from elsewhere in western and northern Europe are included. By contrast [[Yankee]] refers to New Englanders of English descent, regardless of social status, ...European settlers in what is today the United States. The [[New England]] Yankee elite were almost exclusively of English extraction.

...e professional roles of American historians in the early 20th century. A [[Yankee]], he was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, the son of John Jameson, a sch

* McFeely, William S. ''Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen''. 1994.

...obby, embracing the word that was originally an insult, similar to the way Yankee Doodle evolved. (See, for example, Thomas F. Hunter's exuberant [http://ear

*[[The Last Yankee]] (1991)

...fighting. First and foremost, they sought to protect hearth and home from Yankee threats. White supremacy and masculinity depended on slavery, which Lincoln ...ain folk viewed freedmen as the greatest affront and humiliating symbol of Yankee victory, so they turned their hatred against [[Carpetbaggers]] (Republicans

...ered Gettysburg looking for a warehouse of shoes, unexpectedly encountered Yankee cavalry. [[John Reynolds]], a brilliant commander who had refused Lincoln's ...y large rifled "Parrott" 20 pounders, and 30 miscellaneous other guns. The Yankee ammunition supply was ample, with 270 rounds per gun (he shot off one third

...the same day to the Maritime Commission for service as the training ship ''Yankee States''. Struck from the Navy list on 3 July 1946, the ship was laid up in

...rious immigrant publications to attend these classes. They agreed with the Yankee and Irish Catholic educators who maintained that immigrants needed English-

The son of a Yankee Baptist minister, Gates was born in Broome County, New York, graduated from

...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