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slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

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...

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

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...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

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

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

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

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...