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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 ...

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

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

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

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...

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

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...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

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

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

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...

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

one and it is Negligent mal practice. In this form of malpractice there is considered to be no criminal intent or dishonest behavi...

In twenty pages this paper considers the Italian Civil Code in an examination of revoking a contract. Twelve sources are cited in...

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

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

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

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

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...

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...