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a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

possessed. But, these opportunities and these rights were more difficult for them to obtain than the average white person. They co...

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

In 1954, for example, the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v Topeka asserted that the separate but equal concept...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

2002). In the wake of the bus boycott launched by black residents in 1955 in response to the Rosa Parks incident on a Montgomery c...

not assumed principal position during this, the bloodiest fight of the entire American Civil War. "Lee hoped an invasion would fu...

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

This paper addresses various literary works relating to human behavior and society. The author discusses George Orwell's work Sho...

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

by more Confederate troop who had joined the fighting. Mass confusion erupted and thousands of Union troops were captured. Union ...

and shift the direction of battles at almost every turn. Belle Boyd Boyd was perhaps one of the best known spies of her time....

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

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

and sufficient material for a book. Despite his earlier assessment of King, Lewis did decide to write the book. It would be a jour...

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...