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War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

of scope and scale which are likely to be available to many of the larger organizations (Nellis and Parker, 2006). The oper...

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

a court is said to have jurisdiction in a matter, then it can legally act as a venue for a given case and deliver a legally bindin...

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...

authoritatively prove that the defendant applied his brakes just three seconds before the impact of the wreck, much later than wou...

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

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

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

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

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

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

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...

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

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