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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...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

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

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

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

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

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