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of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

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...

the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed and Dr. King was deemed president (1998). It was on that same day that the well...

owners. Du Bois understood that blacks needed to secure a greater foothold in American labor and industry, but there was far more...

Rights Act of 1991 and what it meant to people at the time it was implemented. What Businesses Should Know about the Civil Right...

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

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

possessed. But, these opportunities and these rights were more difficult for them to obtain than the average white person. They co...

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

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

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...

cheat. They cheat with timesheets, for example, as well as cheat on financial statements which might include a deduction for a bus...

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 ...

on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

publicized achievements, the Birmingham Bus Boycott in which hundreds of blacks practically shut down the bus system by their non-...

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

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...