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fierce protection of ancestral land was nothing new to the people trapped in between warring factions. The names given geographic...

of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...

and its easy to blame immigrants for lack of work-though they take the jobs most Americans dont want. Still, there is a profound s...

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

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)....

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

conditions as they relate to the white man instilling religion into the slaves of the South. "In the 1780s, Methodists--who repr...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

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 ...

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

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

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

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

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

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

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

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

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

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...