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single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...

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

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

Similarly, in France, there would be drastic change as the people were fed up with the monarchy. They really wanted an enlightened...

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

battles of Lexington and Concord: the famous midnight ride is therefore presented in the wider context of the American struggle ag...

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

one would have to mix the chemicals and take charge of developing the photographs on the spot. The focusing and positioning of the...

how Presidential reconstruction was focused on rapid healing, and then discusses how Radical reconstruction was aimed at designing...

these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

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

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