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founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

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

There were many circumstances that combined to eventually cause the outbreak of the bloodiest war in American history....

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

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

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

slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

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

Such a person would not have felt any need to leave his beloved homeland, and his sons desire to do so would have been traumatic f...

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

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

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

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

Parkins (2001), this marked a period of growth and prosperity for the country. It is true that the colonial administrati...

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...

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...

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

and shift the direction of battles at almost every turn. Belle Boyd Boyd was perhaps one of the best known spies of her time....

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...