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Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

Breaches of this then become political tools for opposition parties and candidates, with the government as an employer needing to ...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

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 ...