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Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

Blacks and Their History as Guided by Reconstruction

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

Homegrown Terrorists: The South During Reconstruction

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

The Military and Civilian Control

In relationship to the possible dangers of having the military in charge of their own decisions it is noted how, "In the early...

The Missouri Theater Warfare at Wilson’s Creek

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

Suspicion and the Civil War

slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...

Lincoln’s War

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

Property, Contract and Tort Law

judicial interjection? Clearly, those such as medical professionals uphold certain responsibilities when it comes to their practi...

New York City - Urban Planning

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...

Civil Unrest in South Africa from 1960 to 1994

In five pages this paper discusses South Africa's civil unrest in an historical overview of the time period and assesses the Truth...

King and Thoreau

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

Kentucky During the Civil War

In ten pages this paper discusses the Civil War in a consideration of the impact of events that took place in Kentucky before and ...

1861 Civil War First Battle of Bull Run

In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

"Letter from the Birmingham City Jail," and Martin Luther KIng's Concepts of Just, Unjust, and Morality

or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...

Firebrand of Liberty

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

Crane and Bierce

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Case

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

Kansas and Slavery

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

An American Shame - The Ku Klux Klan

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

Civil War Technology

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

The Civil War and Minority People

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...

Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the Move West

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

French Revolution, Civil Constitution of the Clergy

This essay pertains to original source documents from the period that are used to discuss the debate surrounding the Civil Constit...

American Civil War and its Inevitability

This 5 page essay presents the writer/tutor's argument as to why the American Civil War was unpreventable and could not be avoided...

Illegal Workers and Ethical Responses

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at illegal workers. A case is made for civil disobedience as an ethical response. Pape...

Reconstruction, Progressivism, Labor Unions and Women’s Suffrage

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

Reconstruction, Progressivism, Labor Unions and Women’s Suffrage

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

The Controversy of Slavery

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

Civil Order Control, A Country Comparison

that describes the duty of local police to respond to any situation in which two or more citizens require supervision or control i...