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

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

to not only stay afloat but to allocate sufficient funding for the identification and colonization of various new lands which were...

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

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

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

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years 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...

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...

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

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

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...

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...

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...

This paper provides an overview of the American Industrial Revolution. There are three sources listed in the bibliography of this ...

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

This research paper assert that the American Revolution can be understood as a radical, social upheaval. Five pages in length, eig...

a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doi...

as a great leader and notes the following: "Realism, strategic imagination, adaptability, and political savvy are all aspects of W...

Blacks have...

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

The American Revolution occurred because of a long series of British wrongs. In essence, the colonists had four major...