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A Civil War Personal Account

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

A Civil War History of Devil's Den Action

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

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...

Brazil and Civil Wars

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

February 13 through 16 1862 Fall of Ft. Donelson During the Civil War

In seven pages this paper examines the fall of Ft. Donelson, Tennessee in this consideration of the Civil War and how this along w...

War and Ernest Hemingway

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

Letters of the Civil War

This research report looks at the American Civil War and how knowledge is acquired through letters written during the time period....

The Civil War and Black Americans Who Fought

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

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...

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 ...

Events of the 20th Century

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

Vietnam and the Stance of Martin Luther King Jr.

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the reasons behind Martin Luther King's opposition to the war in Vietnam in a chrono...

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...

Causes Initiating the Civil War

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

The Sudanese Civil War

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Causes of War

causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...

United States Special Forces History and Uses

In ten pages the history of the US Special Forces and the development of its various uses during the Second World War, the Korean ...

The Causes and Results of World War I

began when Austria-Hungary believed that the newly enlarged, Russian-backed, Serbia was a paramount threat to its security. This w...

Answering Cold War Questions

arms in Germany, which appeared to Stalin that the US was rearming that country. He was enraged at this perceived betrayal (Vidal...

United States' Policy Against Terrorism

property") and the prohibition of any branch of the U.S. government to conduct unlawful search and seizure investigations against ...

Parallels Between the Civil Rights Movement and Post Civil War Reconstruction

servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United State...

Intelligence Gathering by U.S. Agencies during World War II and Beyond

better known as G-2 (Warner, COI came first, 2000). At times, the information went all the way up to the White House, but short of...

US Reasons for Entering Word War I

were formed as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arth...