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The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the American Civil War. Modern aspects such as civic participation and the use of a...

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

Blacks have...

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

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

This 5 page essay presents the writer/tutor's argument as to why the American Civil War was unpreventable and could not be avoided...

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

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

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...