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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...

these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

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

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

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

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...

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

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

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

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

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

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

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...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...