YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Civil Rights and the Civil War
Essays 541 - 570
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
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...
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...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...
states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...
the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of 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...
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)....
the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...
restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...