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as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...

was the enemy. Most Americans, when they think of the reasons for the Civil war, will name slavery as a major issue dividing th...

In nine pages this pivotal battle of the Civil War is examined in an overview of the events leading to it and a listing of officer...

thirty years prior to the outbreak of war, they were limited to a few heavily-populated urban areas. However, during the War, it ...

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

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

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...

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

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

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

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

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

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

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

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

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

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

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

to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...

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

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

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

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...