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square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...

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

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

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...

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...

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

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

In nine pages the stories of Captain Sally and Dr. Mary Walker's spy activities are chronicled in this overview of the US Civil Wa...

the defense. Still, from these objectives flowed the strategy on each side (1990). It was an exciting, risky war and no one truly ...

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...

In five pages this paper examines slave art and music during the years of the Civil War along with a consideration of family durin...

In twelve pages Durkheim's text The Division of Labor in Society is examined within the context to lynchings in the American South...

schools. In fact, the name "Sudan" (Arabic for "black") is a reference to the black peoples who historically have inhabited the re...