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

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

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

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

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

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...

of Negroes were literate." Slavery had given few opportunities to develop initiative or to think independently. A writer for Harp...

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

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

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

1297 The Spanish Civil War marked a...

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

this paper, well examine Reconstruction from a "hindsight" view, then attempt to come up with some different recommendations for t...

This topic is argued in five pages with supporting evidence presented. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

who had succeeded (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, ...

In three pages various crises including Coxey's Army and the Pullman train strike are examined as they affected the post Civil War...

In six pages this paper examines the violent post Civil War labor history of the Pennsylvania coal mines in this overview of the M...

In five pages this paper discusses America's pre and post Civil War sectionalism issues. Four sources are cited in the bibliograp...

schools. In fact, the name "Sudan" (Arabic for "black") is a reference to the black peoples who historically have inhabited the re...

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

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...