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In Favor of Civil Disobedience

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...

Reconstruction and the Civil War

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Overview of the English Civil War

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

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara and the Depiction of Civil War Generals Longstreet and Lee

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...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

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

North and South Advantages During the Civil War

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

Southern Slavery and its Social Status

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

'The Wall' by Jean Paul Sartre and Existential Writing

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...

Nationalist Success and the Spanish Civil War

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

Union and Confederate Civil War Spies

and shift the direction of battles at almost every turn. Belle Boyd Boyd was perhaps one of the best known spies of her time....

Recruitment Techniques in the U.S. Military Since the Civil War

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

Civil Rights Legislation Backlash, Liability, and Discrimination

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

England's Civil Wars and Their Possible Causes

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

Karl Marx's Predictions and America After the Civil War

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

Life and Poetic Art of Walt Whitman

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

Civil War to Present Day Black Experience

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

Civil War Reconstruction and What if It Had Been Overseen by Abraham Lincoln

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

Combating Philosophies and the U.S. Civil War

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

Issues Prior to the U.S. Civil War

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

Naval Warfare during The Civil War

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

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

Co. Aytch by Samuel Watkins

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

American Slavery

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

Morris County, New Jersey's Civil War Contributions

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

Ending Slavery with the Civil War

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

Patience and the Civil Rights' Reform Strategies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

publicized achievements, the Birmingham Bus Boycott in which hundreds of blacks practically shut down the bus system by their non-...

Civil War Turning Point of the Battle Of Gettysburg

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...