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of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

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

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

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

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

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

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

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

This research report examines the Civil War and policy issues. Both civilian and military life are noted. This five page paper has...

In five pages this paper considers the Northern participation in the Civil War in a consideration of the 2.5 civilian volunteers i...

participated as a foot soldier for the duration. It details Rhodes impressive ascent through the infantry ranks, beginning first ...

In five pages what would become the great American pastime as it was played during the Civil War is examined. Seven sources are c...