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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...

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...

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

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

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...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...