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The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the American Civil War. Modern aspects such as civic participation and the use of a...

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at black soldiers in the Civil War. The experiences of inequality endured by such soldi...

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the fight post Civil War for African American equal rights. This paper includes the formati...

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

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...

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

from a military perspective as well as because of many other natural resources it contained. The Hawaiian Islands had...

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...

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

of the total U.S. population (Larsen, 2003). While many of these immigrants unquestionably play a positive role in U.S. society a...

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

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

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

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

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