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Role of Women During the Civil War

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

'Slave Power,' the North, and the Civil War

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

What it Was Like to Be a Slave Before the Civil War

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

The Battle of Antiem

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

Analyzing the Ferocious and Prolonged Civil War Combat of 1861 Until 1865

the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...

A World War II Submarines History

crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...

1820 and 1850 Compromises

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

Causes Initiating the Civil War

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

Military Strategic Changes Influenced by Napoleon Bonaparte

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

Gay Marriage Beyond Vermont

given full faith and credit, and that the DOMA itself violates the Fifth Amendments Equal Protection Clause as well as the Full Fa...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

The Sudanese Civil War

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

The Causes of Civil Wars and Solutions

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...

March 9, 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads and its Importance

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

US Civil War ans the Northern and Southern 'Home Fronts'

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

Political and Economic Reasons Why The South Lost The Civil War

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...

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

Similarities in the Images of September 11, 2001 and the Civil War as Remembered in the Jimmy Carter Museum

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

Civil War Era and Black Emancipation

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

Civil War Letters

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

Criminality of Medical Malpractice

one and it is Negligent mal practice. In this form of malpractice there is considered to be no criminal intent or dishonest behavi...

Anthony Marx's Making Race and Nation and Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels

Race and the Civil War are examined in a contrasting and comparison of these novels in six pages. There are no other sources list...

Could the U.S. Civil War Have Been Averted?

In five pages this paper considers whether or not the Civil War could have been somehow avoided. Five sources are cited in the bi...

Georgia March of General Sherman

In seven pages this research paper examines how these Civil War tactics were a harbinger of the total warfare military concept of ...

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr. on Responsibility and Freedom

In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...

Civil Disobedience and Socrates

In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...

Political Reasons for the UK Riots of the 1980s

In eight pages this paper discusses the 1980s' UK riots and considers the reasons for this violent civil discord in a consideratio...

Hosea Easton's Legacy

In 5 pages this paper discusses the achievements of Hosea Easton, an African American abolitionist author in a consideration of su...

New York's Urban Environments

This 10 page paper describes various experiences in urban environments in New York City. The environments include a factory, a wel...

Martin Luther King Jr. on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence

In five pages this paper examines King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' in a consideration of the effectiveness of nonviolence an...