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Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

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

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...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

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

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...

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

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

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...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

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...

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

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

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