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U.S. Civil War Confederate General James Longstreet

This paper presents James Longstreet in a consideration of the man and the Confederate general in ten pages. Seven sources are ci...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction Era

who had succeeded (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, ...

Henry Wirz, A Scapegoat for Crimes At Andersonville During the Civil War

crossfire fervor of post war vengeance. The tragedy at Andersonville was not of Wirz doing. He was in the wrong place, at the wron...

Reverse Discrimination and Civil Rights

In eight pages various civil rights policies such as preferential treatment, the Civil Rights Act, and Affirmative Action are cons...

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

In six pages civil rights and civil liberties are discussed in order to assess their validity. Three sources are cited in the bib...

Civil War and the Poetry of Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper discusses how Walt Whitman represented the Civil War in such poems as 'A March in the Ranks Hard Prest an...

Civil War Soldiers on Both Sides in The Vacant Chair by Reid Mitchell

In five pages this paper discusses the Confederate and Northern soldiers' experiences as related in a passage of The Vacant Chair ...

US Industrialization After the Civil War

This paper discusses the impacts to the general laborer, women, children and minorities. There are three sources in this five pag...

History of Ohio from the Civil War Through the 1960s

In eleven pages this paper examines the economic and political history of Ohio with such topics of Cincinnati's industrial evoluti...

Civil Disobedience from the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...

Civil Disobedience, Martin Luther King, and Henry David Thoreau

gets. If anything Thoreau gives us an emotional warning, He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useles...

U.S. Civil War and Escaped Slaves' Maroon Societies

consider productive. II. Brutality Under Slavery It is hard to fathom the concept of accepting the ownership of people but du...

An Examination of Pre Civil War Texas

In five pages the economic development of Texas and its resistance to slave freedom are considered within the context of Campbell'...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction and Freedmen

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

A US Post Civil War History

In this paper of six pages several important historical events such as the growth due to the Industrial Revolution, the twentieth ...

Civil War General George B. McClellan

the War Between the States broke out, he rejoined the army, with the highlight being that he was given the command of Union Troops...

Civil Rights and Political Action

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

The Civil War: The Burning of Atlanta

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King Jr.

being. If it was all the same to them, he must have said, Ill stay where I am. His famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" were pub...

Analyzing Civil War General James Longstreet

"rank and stature in the Confederate command structure" (Hampton, 2002). Longstreet gave the Confederate Army exemplary service (...

Discussion of the U.S. Civil War Reconstruction and Recommendations

this paper, well examine Reconstruction from a "hindsight" view, then attempt to come up with some different recommendations for t...

The Post Civil War South

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

Overview of the 1865 to 1877 Era of Reconstruction Following the U.S. Civil War

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

U.S. Civil War and Northern Women Historiography

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Post-War Adjustment: Literary Comparison

to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...

Makdisi/Beirut Fragments

Maronite Militancy: The Creation and Disintegration of Lebanon," perhaps, offers implications for Makdisis seemingly inexplicable ...

Civil Rights

as new western states were added to the union. Abolitionist movement: William Lloyd Garrison, a white man, founded the Ame...

Justiciability of Socio-economic, Civil and Political Rights

as being conferred by the state upon the citizenry, but rather the people are perceived as holding these rights independently of t...