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

the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

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

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

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

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

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

this paper, well examine Reconstruction from a "hindsight" view, then attempt to come up with some different recommendations for t...

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

published in 1929, Charles Edward Merriam observed, "The racial complexity of Chicago is one of the characteristic features of its...

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

won by any nation. Caputos work focuses on the primary character who remembers an innocence that will always live within him, bu...

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...

In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

the War Between the States broke out, he rejoined the army, with the highlight being that he was given the command of Union Troops...

of the problems both Union and Confederate armies faced on the home front. "Confederate soldiers left their wives -- and their mo...