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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...

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

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

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...

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...

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

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

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

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

support from external groups (Halpin and Cox, 2000). The third influence is seen as moving down the hierarch greater levels of spe...

is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...

that the rage that the public feels toward lawyers is generated is not generated by the trial lawyers obligation to defend the gui...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

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...

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...