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shacks they were forced to live in to the yield from their crops. From a very young age, Walker experienced the racism of the Sout...

In nine pages this creative essay is told from the point of view of a hypothetical assistant to Mathew Brady, famed Civil War phot...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

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

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

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...

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

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

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

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

prejudicial to disqualify same sex partners form marrying. This would indicate that they are either not capable of making the same...

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

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

cropped up as a result of Title VII. People with religious beliefs sometimes refuse to wear hats or certain clothing that is a req...

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

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

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

However, the victory that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka represented in the Black community did not carry over to the major...

(1957), for example, argued that the basis for separation and discrimination was linked to the fact that employees did not want to...

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

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

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

when the nation was desperately trying to establish policies and procedures which would act to protect the rights of the freed sla...