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religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

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

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

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 ...

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

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

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...

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

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

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

was California Congresswoman, Barbara Lee who received death threats after she had the unmitigated courage to cast the only vote a...

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...