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Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

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

July 1 to July 3 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

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

John Brown's Controversial Activities

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

U.S. History and Manifest Destiny from 1865 to 1939

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

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

Dred Scott Decision of 1857 and its Impact

hold in favor of Scotts claim (PG). However, the U.S. Constitution did not support Scotts assumption. It was a complicated issue ...

An Examination of American History from 1865 until 1920

as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Bierce

point out that the subject of death and dying has taken on new meaning in recent times. There is now recognition of similar events...

A Review of Freedom Road

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

Early American History

In three pages US history from 1776 until the end of the Civil War in 1865 is examined in a consideration of events including the ...

Slavery Aspects

In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...

The Reconstruction was Won By the South

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the South won the Reconstruction despite the Northern victory in the Civil War, discussing st...

Viewpoints of Confederates

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War from the Confederate perspective with the use of Confederates in the Attic by Tony...

Military Tactical Strategies of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Union General Ulysses S. Grant

and ancestral place meant everything"1. This limited view of Lees motivation leads to the assumption that Lee was not fully commi...

Fourteenth U.S. President Franklin Pierce

In eleven pages Franklin Pierce's life and undistinguished presidential administration are discussed and include his friendship wi...

Rebellions and Slave Revolts

In nine pages this paper discusses the rebellions and slave revolts that occurred around the U.S. Civil War period as described in...

Civil War Memoirs' Analysis of Co. Aytch by Sam R. Watkins and All for the Union by Elisha Hunt Rhodes

participated as a foot soldier for the duration. It details Rhodes impressive ascent through the infantry ranks, beginning first ...

Events Associated with the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

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

Kenneth Stammp's The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877

of Negroes were literate." Slavery had given few opportunities to develop initiative or to think independently. A writer for Harp...

History of Slavery in the US

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

Richard Hall's Patriots in Disguise

In three pages this paper discusses women in Civil War combat within the context of Hall's book and examines women's significant r...

Incendiary Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In eight pages this paper how Uncle Tom's Cabin may well have ignited the Civil War spark to the antagonisms that had long been si...

'The Butterfly and the Tank' by Ernest Hemingway

him and a real gun is fired and he is killed. 6) The narrator is...

'Shiloh' by Bobbie Ann Mason and Characterization

In five pages the ways in which the characters of Norma Jean and Leroy are developed through Civil War symbolism are discussed. T...

England During the Seventeenth Century and the Leveller Movement

In twelve pages the Leveller philosophy and movement of the seventeenth century is examined in this consideration that includes ho...

Stephen W. Sears' Landscape Turned Red

In five pages a review of this historical text that examines the Civil War Battle of Antietam is presented. There are no other so...

Description of the Battle Of Gettysburg

by more Confederate troop who had joined the fighting. Mass confusion erupted and thousands of Union troops were captured. Union ...