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

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

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

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

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

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

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

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

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

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

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

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

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

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

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