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were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

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

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

There were many circumstances that combined to eventually cause the outbreak of the bloodiest war in American history....

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

Blacks have...

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

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...

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...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

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

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

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...

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...

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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