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The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...

Crane and Bierce

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

Kansas and Slavery

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

Blacks in Uniform in the American Civil War

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

Historians' Unending Perpetuation of the Memory of the Civil War

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

No Civil War: a Retrospective

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

Homegrown Terrorists: The South During Reconstruction

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

Firebrand of Liberty

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

Civil War Technology

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

The Civil War and Minority People

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

Assumptions in the First World War

but preferred diplomacy, and Germany and Russia were somewhere between the two extremes (Waller ). James Joll, in observing all th...

The Potential Impact of Margin Trading on a Developing Stock Market; Case Study of Taiwan

will have on the Chinese stock exchanges. In order to assess this a wide range of literature is examined1 to determine the potenti...

New York City - Urban Planning

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...

The Pros and Cons of The Four Day Work Week

Utah is one of the few states to mandate the four day work week for its state employees (Berman, Bowman, West & Wart, 2009). It is...

Civil War and Why Northerners Fought

In five pages this paper considers the Northern participation in the Civil War in a consideration of the 2.5 civilian volunteers i...

US Civil War Battle of Gettysburg and Military Intelligence

In seven pages this paper examines the role military intelligence played in the Civil War with the Gettysburg campaign the primary...

U.S. Civil War and Major Political Figures

not assumed principal position during this, the bloodiest fight of the entire American Civil War. "Lee hoped an invasion would fu...

Policy and the Civil War

This research report examines the Civil War and policy issues. Both civilian and military life are noted. This five page paper has...

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....

Love According to Andrew Marvell and John Donne

In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...

Slavery and the U.S. Civil War

would have been changed forever. Still, Davis was a leader in his own right. He was the only president of the Confederate States o...

Overview of Christian Eschatology

In five pages Christian belief and 'last days' are considred in an overview of beliefs and attitudes. Four sources are cited in t...

Rebellions and Slave Revolts

In nine pages this paper discusses the rebellions and slave revolts that occurred around the U.S. Civil War period as described in...

Civil War Memoirs' Analysis of Co. Aytch by Sam R. Watkins and All for the Union by Elisha Hunt Rhodes

participated as a foot soldier for the duration. It details Rhodes impressive ascent through the infantry ranks, beginning first ...

Kenneth Stammp's The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877

of Negroes were literate." Slavery had given few opportunities to develop initiative or to think independently. A writer for Harp...

April 1862 New Orleans Blockade by Union Captain David G. Farragut During the US Civil War

In ten pages this paper examines this Civil War blockade and what it strategically represented to Northern troops. Eight sources ...

Maternal Focus of Eugene O'Neill

In ten pages the materal focus that is found in many of O'Neill's plays is examined in a consideration of Moon for the Misbegotten...

The Missouri Theater Warfare at Wilson’s Creek

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...