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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...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

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

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

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

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

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

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...

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

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

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

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

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

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

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

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

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

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

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

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

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