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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...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

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...

The Life and Career of Union Pioneer A. Phillip Randolph

"color line" as the principal problem of the twentieth century, but rather felt that the principal problems of black Americans wer...

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...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Achievements

the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed and Dr. King was deemed president (1998). It was on that same day that the well...

Hosea Easton's Legacy

In 5 pages this paper discusses the achievements of Hosea Easton, an African American abolitionist author in a consideration of su...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

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 ...

Civil Rights Quest of African Americans

her peers. By reading her book, one can understand why the quest to achieve civil rights is and was important for African America...

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...

Private and Public Lives of Lyndon Johnson

In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...

Black Middle Class and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

to such an extent that?in retrospect?these witnesses now see the African-Americans who suffered as people, and not as "other." The...

James McPherson's The Negro's Civil War How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

In five pages this paper presents an overview of this American historical texts and assesses the author's arguments in terms of th...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction Era

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

Civil Rights and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

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...

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...

Internet Regulation and Civil Liberties

In nine pages this paper discusses legal regulation of the Internet in a consideration of the F.C.C., Communications Decency Act p...

The Civil Rights Era and its Impact upon African American Poetry

endured by Black People during various eras. Research I uncovered focuses much on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Poets, an...

Reawakening and Art of the Harlem Renaissance

In five pages this paper argues that literature of the Harlem Renaissance was responsible for commencing an artistic, intellectual...

P.O.W. Camps and The Civil War

This research report looks at the POW camps that existed during this time period. Both North and South camps are addressed.This ei...

US Civil Rights Movement Success

In five pages this research paper discusses the 1960s' civil rights movement in America in an overview of its success and the chan...

The Life, Works and Philosophy of Alice Walker

shacks they were forced to live in to the yield from their crops. From a very young age, Walker experienced the racism of the Sout...

The Civil Rights Movement During the Forties Through the Sixties

This research report examines how the civil rights movement impacted African Americans and others. Various leaders are mentioned s...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

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 ...