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Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

terms and conditions of employment, including representation of CCPOA in arbitration disputes arising from the collective bargaini...

that imposed minimum spending formulas on schools, three-strikes sentencing laws, land conservation measures and measures abolishi...

generous in regards to social welfare and progressive policies, according to Schrag. This situation has changed drastically accord...

committed the act, if their felony falls into certain categories, if they were deemed mature enough to understand their sentence a...

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

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

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

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

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...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

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

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...

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

places a greater burden on businesses in todays environment than it did in years past before the great downsizing waves that swept...

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...

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...

In eight pages this report discusses the nearly 200,000 African American soldiers that fought during the US Civil War after Presid...