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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...

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...

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

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...