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

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

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

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...

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

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

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

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...

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

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...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...