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and East Germans shot for trying to take the route west. In Germany, at least, the post-war years well into the 1970s and 1980s co...

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

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

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...

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

is exciting-it is New York, after all-and hes happy to be there, living in safety with the woman who adopted him as her son. But l...

to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...

square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...

communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...

If a specific shot did not exist, he would create it; if the story was not that intriguing, he would fabricate it. In short, Gard...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

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

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

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

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

culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...

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

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...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

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

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...

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

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

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

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

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