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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...

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

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

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

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

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...

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

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,...

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

published in 1929, Charles Edward Merriam observed, "The racial complexity of Chicago is one of the characteristic features of its...

the reality of the civil rights movement. In this way, it becomes an everlasting record however of the event, thus immortalizing ...

this paper, well examine Reconstruction from a "hindsight" view, then attempt to come up with some different recommendations for t...

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

won by any nation. Caputos work focuses on the primary character who remembers an innocence that will always live within him, bu...

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...