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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...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
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...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
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...
religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...
In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...
appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...
Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...
actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...
these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...
is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...
also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...
sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...
was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...
boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...
white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...
hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...
maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...