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pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

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...

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

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

arise in its place. Indeed, the respective governments were not about to allow such a perceived takeover without as much as an al...

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...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

property") and the prohibition of any branch of the U.S. government to conduct unlawful search and seizure investigations against ...

In five pages this paper examines Ancient Egypt's political system and structure in a consideration of viziers, the role played by...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

of these norms. Although individual identity is also defined along subcultural lines in urban society, researchers must also be aw...

as the real measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not ...

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...