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many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

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...

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

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 ...

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

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

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

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

causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...

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

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

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...

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...