YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Essays 481 - 510
to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...
had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...
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...
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...
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...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
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...
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...
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...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...
that the colony would serve at least two purposes: the first to spread the Christian gospel in Africa, and the second to serve as...
In nine pages this pivotal battle of the Civil War is examined in an overview of the events leading to it and a listing of officer...
In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...
was the enemy. Most Americans, when they think of the reasons for the Civil war, will name slavery as a major issue dividing th...
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...
as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...