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Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...

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

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

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

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

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...

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...

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

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

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

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

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

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

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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