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the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

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 ...

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

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

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

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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