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In five pages this paper considers America following the Civil War and how this time period is reflected in Mark Twain's The Gilde...

In six pages this paper discusses the Secret Service from its pre Civil War origins to the present day protection of U.S. Presiden...

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...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

Blacks have...

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

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

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

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...

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

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

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

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

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

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...

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...

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...

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

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...