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Essays 511 - 540
another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...
. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...
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 ...
those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...
co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...
made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...
a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...
the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...
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...
alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...
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...
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...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
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...
cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...
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...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
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...