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Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

Confederate Women During The American Civil War

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

'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...

Strategy and Weapons in the American Civil War

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

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...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

Reconstruction Era's Early and Late Stages

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

3 Factors Responsible for the Success of the Civil Rights Movement

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

Union and Confederacy Battle Plans During the Civil War

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

The Causes of Civil Wars and Solutions

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

March 9, 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads and its Importance

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

Similarities in the Images of September 11, 2001 and the Civil War as Remembered in the Jimmy Carter Museum

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

Civil War Letters

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

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 ...

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

Analyzing the Ferocious and Prolonged Civil War Combat of 1861 Until 1865

the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...

Civil War Life of Robert E. Lee

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

Issues of the Lebanese Civil War

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

Second Revolution in America, the Civil War

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

July 1 to July 3 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

Kennesaw Mountain Battle During the Civil War

slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...

John Brown's Controversial Activities

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

Civil War in El Salvador

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

Why the South Lost the Civil War

have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...

U.S. History and Manifest Destiny from 1865 to 1939

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

Events Associated with the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

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 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....