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civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
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...
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...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...
However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...
had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....
in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...
the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...
another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...
as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...
in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...
did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...
restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...
Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...
blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...
color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
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 ...
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...
In nine pages this paper examines the profound impact the Civil War had on the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, including Uncle To...
In eight pages this paper how Uncle Tom's Cabin may well have ignited the Civil War spark to the antagonisms that had long been si...
him and a real gun is fired and he is killed. 6) The narrator is...