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a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

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...

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...