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cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

Correspondingly, there is a battle being waged by parents and educators alike that says a public school education sorely lacks whe...

understand what constitutes discrimination, but in some cases, what seems wrong may not be wrong in law. Discrimination remains a ...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

In most cases, this is the focus and the extent to which African American scholarship mentions the life and work of Medgar Evers. ...

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...

Fraud continues to be rampant in the corporate world. Prudential Securities were charged with late trading. A manager for Johnson ...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

This paper described the impact of "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Rev. Martin Luther King and its importance to the civil right...

A case study of a woman cashing her deceased mother's checks is the final part of this essay. Topics discussed in essay include Mi...

This essay discusses accountability and transparency in government or other civil service positions. Why is it important? What doe...

"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...

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

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...

courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....

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

This essay presents an argument based on the idea that fear of immigration, which is promoted by conservatives, is unraveling the ...

Anne Moody was raised in the rural South where she suffered extreme racism throughout school and beyond. She was a very active mem...

This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the fight post Civil War for African American equal rights. This paper includes the formati...

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...