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

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

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

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

support from external groups (Halpin and Cox, 2000). The third influence is seen as moving down the hierarch greater levels of spe...

is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...

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

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

Great Britain is a nation that perhaps clearly fits within this sort of category relating to democracy. We further note that in...

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

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

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...

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

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...

courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....

Education, and the timing couldnt have been better (Carson). Brown declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, whi...

and her sharecropper parents were treated differently than the white girls she played with, but she was unable to understand why. ...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...

social theorists for over a century. Perhaps one of the best approaches to addressing the concept of democracy, though, came not ...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

the "things" searched go beyond the business records as the Department of Justice notes, and means that it can search "any tangibl...

a lot. Lives were lost in the struggle. Some do not think it was worth it. In understanding democracy and the process of democra...