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occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...

still harbor similar traits that reflect the inescapable impact of genetic tendency. As Harris (2002) points out, genes are respo...

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

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

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

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...

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

suggests that judges frequently use ethnic stereotypes and "racialized attributions to fill in the knowledge gaps created by limit...

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...

subconscious, if a man has intercourse with a women, he claims ownership of her. Likewise, in a larger world view, if the white ma...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...