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

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

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...

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

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

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

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...

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

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

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

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...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...