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

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

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...

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

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

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...

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...

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

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

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

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

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

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

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

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

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

This research report focuses on Charles Taylor. Who he is and how this relates to the Civil War in Liberia is the subject of this ...

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

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