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U.S. Civil War and Styles of Reconstruction

how Presidential reconstruction was focused on rapid healing, and then discusses how Radical reconstruction was aimed at designing...

Colombia's History Since its Independence

these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...

Were the Confederate States Manipulated into Striking First by President Abraham Lincoln?

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

Civil War Letters

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

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...

Role of Women During the Civil War

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

What it Was Like to Be a Slave Before the Civil War

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

The Battle of Antiem

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

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

U.S. Civil War and 'Copperheads'

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

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

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

War Principles and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

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

The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

'Slave Power,' the North, and the Civil War

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

US Civil War and the North's Strategies

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

Battle of Algiers and Black Hawk Down

such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...

No Civil War: a Retrospective

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...

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

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

Our Fondness for the Civil War

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

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 ...

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...

Historians' Unending Perpetuation of the Memory of the Civil War

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...

Years Following Civil War

The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

Midnight Rising, Tony Horwitz

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

The Controversy of Slavery

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

First World War to the Vietnam War: The Evolution of American Policy

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

Georgia March of Civil War General William T. Sherman

the defense. Still, from these objectives flowed the strategy on each side (1990). It was an exciting, risky war and no one truly ...

Civil War Art and Folk Music

In five pages this paper examines slave art and music during the years of the Civil War along with a consideration of family durin...