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U.S. History's Watershed Event, the Civil War

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

Civil War Changes in North and South Politics and Society

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

U.S. Civil War Outcome and the Role of Weapons

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

A Fictional Young Mexican Living in Texas During the 19th Century

me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...

Civil War and Reconstruction Social Welfare Programs

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

In seven pages this paper examines civil disobedience as envisioned by MLK and the lack of conformity of Gandhi to this view. Fou...

Brazil and Civil Wars

Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...

Just Law, Unjust Law, and the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...

Law That is Just and Unjust in the Writings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau II

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how just law and unjust law are depicted in 'Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau and 'L...

Globalization, Postmodernism, and Civil Disobedience

In ten pages postmodernism is considered in terms of globalization and how it has affected civil disobedience practices. Eight so...

Property as Defined by John Locke

In two pages this paper discusses Locke's Essay on Civil Government in terms of how the English political philosopher defined prop...

Justification for Law Breaking in Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...

New York City Draft Riots of 1863

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

The 54th Massachusetts

based on the regiments history, was a success and may indicate more greater in future. The student is facing a significant amount ...

Film Version of A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr and Expert Witnesses for the Plaintiffs

In five pages this paper examines the expert witnesses by the plaintiffs and how they were used in the film version of A Civil Act...

Origins of Civil Society by Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper discusses Rousseau's presentation of civil society contexts in his work. There are 2 sources cited in the...

1865 to 1877 U.S. Civil War Reconstruction Plans of the President and Congress

Americas people. Creating a government that was for the people and by the people is what was going to promote both individual and...

The Roundhead Rebellion and England's Civil War of 1642 until 1651

In eleven pages England's Civil War is examined in this historical summary. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Civil War Battle Of Fredericksburg

their way at a fast clip. The first men to arrive at the designated site took two days in their approach to Stafford Heights. Ge...

English Civil War and Oliver Cromwell

In twenty five pages this paper discusses the participation of the Roundheads and Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War in a co...

Richard Hall's Patriots in Disguise

In three pages this paper discusses women in Civil War combat within the context of Hall's book and examines women's significant r...

Civil War Influences of Robert E. Lee

fight an offensive war while other Confederate leaders preferred to fight defensively, forcing the Northern armies to come after t...

Causes of the Civil War and the Events That Characterized This Conflict

In fact, the movement was headquartered in Boston. This city was one that contained support for the freedom of slaves. The slave...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction

when he suspended individual liberties, and closed down anti-war and anti-administration newspapers (24). Not only did he do that,...

Russia's 'Great Reforms'

for all of the changes and as the result of the changes and the rise of the populist movement there was the use of paternalist des...

Historiography of Northern Blacks During the U.S. Civil War

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

English Law and Unorthodox Family Rights

prejudicial to disqualify same sex partners form marrying. This would indicate that they are either not capable of making the same...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...