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Review of Freedom Road by Howard Fast

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

The Social and Personal Impact of Civil Procedure

a court is said to have jurisdiction in a matter, then it can legally act as a venue for a given case and deliver a legally bindin...

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...

The Civil War and the Factors Leading Up To It

There were many circumstances that combined to eventually cause the outbreak of the bloodiest war in American history....

African American History as Reflected Through Art

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

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...

Thoreau and King

government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...

The Civil War and President Lincoln

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

Restitution in the Criminal Justice System

are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...

A History of Values and Attitudes in America

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

California Law and Medical Practice

in the documents. The period of time that Dr. Sanders has to respond to the lawsuit is based on the method of service, and so can...

Desmond Seward’s Wars of the Roses

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Florida in the Civil War

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

Issues Leading Up to the Compromise of 1850 and Political Leadership During the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis)

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

Colombia - Foreign Policy

by the 1970s, mostly left-wing groups (International Crisis Group July). By the 1980s, right-wing groups emerged and by then, the ...

Slave Life in the South before the Civil War

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

Lincoln and the Second Revolution

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

The Unexpected Impacts of 9-11

One of the most concerning of the reactions to 9-11 is the attacks that we have been subjected to in terms of our legal...

Avoiding the Civil War

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

Art and the Civil War Era

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

Ayers: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

American Civil War: Just or Unjust?

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

Jefferson Davis: Civil War and Reconstruction

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

The California Gold Rush & the coming of the Civil War

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...