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

The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the American Civil War. Modern aspects such as civic participation and the use of a...

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

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

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

arise in its place. Indeed, the respective governments were not about to allow such a perceived takeover without as much as an al...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at illegal workers. A case is made for civil disobedience as an ethical response. Pape...

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

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

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...

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

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

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...

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...