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and ancestral place meant everything"1. This limited view of Lees motivation leads to the assumption that Lee was not fully commi...

This research report focuses on Charles Taylor. Who he is and how this relates to the Civil War in Liberia is the subject of this ...

In five pages this paper examines reasons behind the fighting of the US Civil War in a comparative analysis of James McPherson's W...

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War from the Confederate perspective with the use of Confederates in the Attic by Tony...

In six pages this paper examines the reasons why the U.S. Civil War was fought. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the South won the Reconstruction despite the Northern victory in the Civil War, discussing st...

In three pages US history from 1776 until the end of the Civil War in 1865 is examined in a consideration of events including the ...

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

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

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

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