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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...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

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...

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

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...

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

by more Confederate troop who had joined the fighting. Mass confusion erupted and thousands of Union troops were captured. Union ...

In seven pages this paper examines the role military intelligence played in the Civil War with the Gettysburg campaign the primary...

not assumed principal position during this, the bloodiest fight of the entire American Civil War. "Lee hoped an invasion would fu...

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

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

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

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

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