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The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

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

US Civil War and the North's Strategies

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

Change and Continuity During the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

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

2 Books on the French Revolution Analyzed

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

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

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

Civil War Weapons and Military Strategy

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

The Divided House of Abraham Lincoln

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

Civil Rights Movement and the Impact of the Cold War

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

3 Factors Responsible for the Success of the Civil Rights Movement

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...

American Life Prior to the First World War and Following the Second World War

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

Reconstruction Era's Early and Late Stages

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

Union and Confederacy Battle Plans During the Civil War

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

Political Systems Comparison

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

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...

Can Free Will And Determinism Coexist?

life progresses and is, therefore, under the guidance of peripheral forces. Rachel (2004) asserts mankinds business on eart...

The Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution

populations of such places as England and Germany and the United States seemed to increase, in France the population remained rela...

Julius Caesar: "The Civil War"

to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...

The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the American Colonies

to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...

Ukraine - Orange Revolution And After

they would use it with the world watching as the events were broadcast on television and reading about it in other media (Karatnyc...

"Sorrow Of War," "Perfume Dreams" And "In Country" - Review

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

Ayers: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

Civil Disobedience in the 1960s

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

Art and the Civil War Era

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

The 54th Massachusetts

based on the regiments history, was a success and may indicate more greater in future. The student is facing a significant amount ...

Business and Free Trade

a while, products all look alike and quality declines. Consumers will buy them or they will not; in any case producers are able t...

North and South: Prior to the Civil War

lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

The Land Problem and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

assistance from the government. Another problem involving the land was the fact that aristocrats were buying up large tracts and ...

Black White Relations: Civil War to Modern Day

were now equal, they put into place a system of support that would forever keep many African Americans in a position of submission...