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on a number of factors. The intent of this paper is to explore those factors and to consider how they have changed since the end ...

single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...

the proliferation of entertainment and leisure. Films, plays, restaurants and night clubs are a part of the landscape. After th...

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

establishing a precedence that requires public schools to remove any private religious expression during graduation, an inevitable...

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

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

illustrates his stance which is that people, even if they are lacking, do not have the right to coerce the wealthy. Thus, if someo...

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

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

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...

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...

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

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 ...

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

the political and social upheaval involved in the coming of the French Revolution. He primarily focuses on the political struggles...

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

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

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...

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