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notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

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

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

conditions as they relate to the white man instilling religion into the slaves of the South. "In the 1780s, Methodists--who repr...

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

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