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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...

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

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

Henry Wirz, an American Civil War criminal, is evaluated as to the truth of his criminality. Was he a scapegoat? Many details are ...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Reconstruction policies of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson for after the Ci...

two was difficult. Healing did not come quickly or easily. Hatred between the two entities continued to exist. The South did no...

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 five pages this paper examines the Spanish Civil War in a consideration of ideological internalizations and how various faction...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...