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James McPherson's The Negro's Civil War How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

In five pages this paper presents an overview of this American historical texts and assesses the author's arguments in terms of th...

Analysis of the Effects of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction on Racial Equality and Federal v. States Rights

particularly concerning territorial expansionism; effective deterrent of despotism; and greater efficiency because concentrated e...

Autobiographies of Theresa Hak Kyung, Mab Segrest, Elaine Brown, Piri Thomas, and the Struggles for Civil Rights

In six pages this report examines how subjectivity was achieved by these autobiographies' narrative strategies. Five sources are ...

The Culture and Operation of the Special Court in Sierra Leone

The Sierra Leone Special Court is an Ad Hoc court set up to hear the cases of those most responsible the atrocities in the Sierra ...

The Law and Doctor-Patient Sexual Contact in California

directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitation (Anderson, 2000), which is part of 42 C.F.R. ? 100...

Legal Issues Involving High Speed Pursuits

In fourteen pages this paper reviews high speed pursuits by law enforcement officials and matters pertaining to immunity and civil...

The Battle Of Gettysburg

as a pivotal contributor to the outcome. SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1) Robert E. Lee a) Shrewd and defiant military man whose objective...

Defining And Identifying Problems/Opportunities Between The "Public's Interest" And The "Public's Best Interest"

commercial activities and examine the effect on the society around them. This is no easy task, since an activity that generates m...

Ishmael Beah/A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experie...

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 ...

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...

Confederate Women During The American Civil War

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

Were the Confederate States Manipulated into Striking First by President Abraham Lincoln?

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Union and Confederacy Battle Plans During the Civil War

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

Political Systems Comparison

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

Reconstruction Era's Early and Late Stages

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

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...

The Divided House of Abraham Lincoln

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

Civil War Weapons and Military Strategy

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

Slavery and the Causes of the U.S. Civil War

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

England's Civil Wars and Their Possible Causes

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

Description of the Battle Of Gettysburg

by more Confederate troop who had joined the fighting. Mass confusion erupted and thousands of Union troops were captured. Union ...

Union and Confederate Civil War Spies

and shift the direction of battles at almost every turn. Belle Boyd Boyd was perhaps one of the best known spies of her time....

Apology of Plato and Civil Disobedience

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

Communist 'Menace' and the Creed of America

In five pages this paper discusses how American civil liberties were sacrificed in an effort to offer protection of the American C...