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The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

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

US Civil War and the North's Strategies

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

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

What it Was Like to Be a Slave Before the Civil War

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

The Battle of Antiem

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

U.S. Civil War and 'Copperheads'

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

War Principles and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Controversy of Slavery

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

Battle of Algiers and Black Hawk Down

such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...

Years Following Civil War

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

Historians' Unending Perpetuation of the Memory of the Civil War

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...

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

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

The Missouri Theater Warfare at Wilson’s Creek

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

No Civil War: a Retrospective

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...

1820 and 1850 Compromises

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...

Similarities in the Images of September 11, 2001 and the Civil War as Remembered in the Jimmy Carter Museum

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

Military Strategic Changes Influenced by Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

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

Our Fondness for the Civil War

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

Crane and Bierce

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Case

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

Civil War Technology

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

The Civil War and Minority People

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

1861 Civil War First Battle of Bull Run

In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

New York City - Urban Planning

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...

Suspicion and the Civil War

slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...

Stephen W. Sears' Landscape Turned Red

In five pages a review of this historical text that examines the Civil War Battle of Antietam is presented. There are no other so...

Pre First World War Pittsburgh and the Black Community

In ten pages this paper discusses how the black community developed in Pittsburgh before the First World War and compares it with ...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction

when he suspended individual liberties, and closed down anti-war and anti-administration newspapers (24). Not only did he do that,...