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The Post Civil War South

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

The Civil War in Sudan

Sudanese government can be trusted to look after its own citizens there" ("No Help Needed, Thank You Very Much"). The outlook for ...

Stampp: "The Era of Reconstruction"

analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the p...

US Civil Liberties and the USA Patriot Act

The societal impacts we have experienced in our country as a result of terrorism and the resulting warfare are many and diverse. ...

English Law and Unorthodox Family Rights

prejudicial to disqualify same sex partners form marrying. This would indicate that they are either not capable of making the same...

Historiography of Northern Blacks During the U.S. Civil War

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

A Civil Action by Jonathan Herr and Lessons Learned

after hearing of the deaths of the children and the illness in the community (Trevino, 2000). Today it has been proven that there ...

Pros and Cons of Mandatory Community Service

Mandatory civil service can result in many positives. One can demonstrate this fact with an examination of many cultures. One of...

U.S. Civil War and Northern Women Historiography

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...

Civil War in El Salvador

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

Cesar Chavez, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau on Nonviolence

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

U.S. Civil War Partisan Influence and Guerrilla Warfare

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

Modern Technology and the U.S. Civil War

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

How Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Define 'Self Reliance'

emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...

U.S. History and Manifest Destiny from 1865 to 1939

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

The Slave Abolition Movement Before the U.S. Civil War

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

Second Revolution in America, the Civil War

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

Relevancy of the History of Civil Rights

"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...

How A Civil Action Demonstrates a Need for Social Action

1998, p. 67). The case is not anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tie...

Russia's 'Great Reforms'

for all of the changes and as the result of the changes and the rise of the populist movement there was the use of paternalist des...

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

Utopian Society and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...

Trespass, False Pretenses, and Obscenity Laws

light and the case of Howl was essentially thrown out of court because the poem was deemed socially valuable in many respects (Min...

State Statutes and Civil Monetary Penalties

or incentive for operating in a cost effective manner where possible. Medicare and private insurers always look at the case...

U.S. Voting Rights

is 18 years of age has the right to vote in all general governmental elections. NOTEWORTHY VOTING RIGHTS HISTORY The first notewo...

Chapter XI of Bearing the Cross by Garrow

very powerful then and that point comes through loud and clear in the chapter. It is also noted that blacks and whites did not lik...

Character Analysis of Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

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

Karl Marx's Predictions and America After the Civil War

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