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Early American History

In three pages US history from 1776 until the end of the Civil War in 1865 is examined in a consideration of events including the ...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Bierce

point out that the subject of death and dying has taken on new meaning in recent times. There is now recognition of similar events...

The Reconstruction was Won By the South

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the South won the Reconstruction despite the Northern victory in the Civil War, discussing st...

The Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg

The battle at hand is what is the focus of attention of this five page report that makes use of five references. The Battle of Get...

Post 1945 Voting and Political Parties

In six pages this paper examines chapters 3 through 6 of David P. Conradt's The German Polity -- The Social and Economic Setting; ...

Liberia Civil War and Charles Taylor

that the colony would serve at least two purposes: the first to spread the Christian gospel in Africa, and the second to serve as...

A Review of Freedom Road

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

Why Was the U.S. Civil War Fought?

In six pages this paper examines the reasons why the U.S. Civil War was fought. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Historiography of Northern Blacks During the U.S. Civil War

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

Civil War in El Salvador

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

A Civil Engineering Overview

understanding of scientific principles, knowledge of materials and the art of analysis and synthesis. It also requires research, t...

Russia's 'Great Reforms'

for all of the changes and as the result of the changes and the rise of the populist movement there was the use of paternalist des...

Events Associated with the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Trespass, False Pretenses, and Obscenity Laws

light and the case of Howl was essentially thrown out of court because the poem was deemed socially valuable in many respects (Min...

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

Utopian Society and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...

Pros and Cons of Mandatory Community Service

Mandatory civil service can result in many positives. One can demonstrate this fact with an examination of many cultures. One of...

U.S. Civil War Partisan Influence and Guerrilla Warfare

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

Modern Technology and the U.S. Civil War

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

Cesar Chavez, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau on Nonviolence

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Their Differences

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

Civil War and Reconstruction Effects

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

Civil War, Industrialism, and Sectionalism

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

US Civil War and the Gatling Gun

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

Jews in PA

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

US Civil War's Turning Points

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...