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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 ...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

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

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

how Presidential reconstruction was focused on rapid healing, and then discusses how Radical reconstruction was aimed at designing...

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

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

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

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

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

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

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

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

G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...