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that the rage that the public feels toward lawyers is generated is not generated by the trial lawyers obligation to defend the gui...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

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

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

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...

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

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...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

property") and the prohibition of any branch of the U.S. government to conduct unlawful search and seizure investigations against ...

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

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

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

In five pages this paper examines Ancient Egypt's political system and structure in a consideration of viziers, the role played by...

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...