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Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

Blacks have...

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...

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

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

by more Confederate troop who had joined the fighting. Mass confusion erupted and thousands of Union troops were captured. Union ...

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