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Civil War (West Virginia Division of Culture and History, 2005). In the end, Delany was fighting for democracy - a concept the bl...

black man with little formal education could have written such an impressive text. In order to dispel any notion that his narrati...

human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she wa...

In five pages this paper analyzes the effective presentation of the author's stated thesis. Four other sources are cited in the b...

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...

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

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

In ten pages this paper discusses the Civil War in a consideration of the impact of events that took place in Kentucky before and ...

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

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

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...