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Analyzing the First, Third, and Seventh Presidents of the United States

role of Americas first President, seeking to separate his persona as the general "who was first in war" from the President "who wa...

Politics and the Value of Human Rights

Ilyich Lenin was a Communist leader who believed he was doing the right thing for the people. It is easy to say that leaders sup...

Jefferson Davis: Civil War and Reconstruction

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

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

about the surrender.3 The plans to do something about Lincoln, however, went back at least several months. While there are...

Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

is still argued as to what Lincolns actual beliefs about slavery truly were as they related to the political and economic system o...

Lincoln and the Second Revolution

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

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Why the South Lost the Civil War

have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...

Myth and Reality: Abraham Lincoln

against injustice and for the downtrodden. One author notes that, "However successful he may have been, Lincoln the young attorney...

Thomas Jefferson by Joyce Appleby

the United States. The book begins around the time he was elected as President, which took place at the end of the 18th century. I...

Lincoln’s War

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

Lincoln and Jackson

an unjustified slur on his wife Rachel" (the White House [2], 2009). Later in his time as President he was prone to outbursts it s...

Thomas Jefferson: Contradiction

associates in Europe" he would refer "to blacks as lazy, slow, unable to reason, lacking in imagination and even spoke against the...

Power of the Presidency: Lincoln

role as President and even infringed on the civil rights of the people, but there are also many who argue such steps were necessar...

Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

major transportation route of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In the years preceding the Louisiana Purchase the Spanish ...

Emancipation Proclamation, The Debate

This essay summarizes the opposing views of Stephen B. Oates and Vincent Harding on the question of whether or not Abraham Lincoln...

The Characteristics of a Great Leader

This paper discusses the important qualities that define great leaders. The persuasive ability of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Ro...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction

when he suspended individual liberties, and closed down anti-war and anti-administration newspapers (24). Not only did he do that,...

Causes of the Civil War and the Events That Characterized This Conflict

In fact, the movement was headquartered in Boston. This city was one that contained support for the freedom of slaves. The slave...

Comparative Analysis of Abraham and Lot

In three pages this paper contrasts and compares Abraham and and his nephew Lot's lives. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Constitutional Change and the Influence of Abraham Lincoln

critics considered Lincoln far too moderate, Lincoln clearly addressed the major issues of the day, working towards a free America...

Civil Rights and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

Slavery Abolition Debates

In eight pages debates during the nineteenth century regarding abolishing slavery are examined in the debates and writings of Walk...

Different Perspectives on Slavery

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War and after perspectives on slavery as viewed by John C. Calhoun, Frederick Douglass...

Comparative Analysis of Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglass

In about six pages President Thomas Jefferson is contrasted and compared with famed former slave and powerful orator Frederick Dou...

Reconstruction Policies Following the U.S. Civil War

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

Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper argues that Abraham Lincoln cannot be regarded as a great U.S. President if internal truths are represent...

African American Military Regiments During the US Civil War

In eight pages this report discusses the nearly 200,000 African American soldiers that fought during the US Civil War after Presid...

Soul of America: Documenting Our Past by Robert C. Baron

State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thencef...

Abraham Lincoln and Opposing Views of Him

In seven pages this paper contrasts the Confederate and Union views of Abraham Lincoln as presented in Glenn Linden and Thomas Pre...