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Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper argues that Abraham Lincoln cannot be regarded as a great U.S. President if internal truths are represent...

Comparative Analysis of the Vietnamese and U.S. Declarations of Independence

In one page these 2 countries respective independence declarations are contrasted and compared....

Reviews of Declarations

of the American Revolution. The list goes on and on when it comes to the kings faults - Jefferson notes that "The history of the p...

Lincoln on Government

Presidency of the United States of America on March 4, 1861, seven southern slave states had already succeeded from the Union form...

The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

Civil War. It was originally planned that Lincoln would be kidnapped and used for ransom to set Confederate soldiers free so that ...

Slavery in the First and Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debates

This paper examines the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in terms of how the first and seventh debates dealt wi...

Overcoming Slavery in the 1870s

This paper reviews key historical writings like Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln's campaign speeches and the 1848 Declaratio...

Jefferson, Lincoln, and King

of the United States today. It speaks of the soul of the people and their dreams and desires and the foundations of their beliefs,...

Inspiring Governments: John Locke

states, in his Second Treatise of Government, Chapter XI, the following: "THE great end of mens entering into society, being the e...

How Natural Law is a part of the Declaration of Independence

It is a concept that suggests freedom but is not equated entirely with it. Finally, the pursuit of happiness is a broad suggestion...

AMERICAN COLONISTS AND GRIEVANCES AGAINST KING GEORGE

were three acts. The first (taxation without representation) extended the power of raising revenues in America without representat...

Overview of the Declaration of Independence

are quite the same as anybody elses; but all are entitled to an equal voice in deciding how they should be governed" (The Economis...

The Historical Roots of the Impetus for the Declaration of Independence

This six page paper traces the impetus for the U.S. Declaration of Independence to the Magna Carta and to the Bible itself. The ...

John Locke's Theories and the Declaration of Independence

Reasonableness of Christianity, An Essay Concerning Toleration, and the Consequences of Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value...

Underlying Premises of the Declaration of Independence

Independences blatant account of the injustices that were perceived and its writers presumptuous statement of intent to seek indep...

Civil War Era and Black Emancipation

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

Death of Abraham Lincoln and the Grief of Poet Walt Whitman

12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...

Inaugural Addresses of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln

judge not, that we be not judged" (Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)). In this we sense a sort of equality and a ba...

Conspiracy and Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

distinctive patterns, which include "a penchant for the obscure and improbable... accepting arguments pointing toward a conspiracy...

Lincoln and/or Johnson

swearing-in as Vice President" (MrLincolnWhiteHouse.org). In truth, this does not appear to be the actions or thoughts of a man wh...

John Wilkes Booth Did Not Act Alone in the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

In eight pages this research paper argues in favor of a murder conspiracy in President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and contend...

Kenneth M. Stampp's And the War Came

only truths that earlier history books illustrated, and in Stampps book we get an even clear picture of the actual circumstances a...

Civil War and Vietnam War 'Necessities'

In five pages this essay explores the meaning behind Abraham Lincoln's observations on 'necessities of war' by examining the Civil...

'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination is examined within the context of this poem by Walt Whitman in five pages with imagery a...

Clairvoyance, Insanity, and the Life of Mary Todd Lincoln

This paper examines the life of Mary T. Lincoln, wife of US president Abraham Lincoln. The author discusses elements of her insan...

Southern Loyalty of General Robert E. Lee

years old. Light Horse Harry died in the Caribbean without ever seeing his family again. Roberts fortunes likely would have been ...

US Civil War's Purpose

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

A Hypothetical Abraham Lincoln Letter

to speak about the Republican Party and how the Republican Presidents of late have conducted business similarly, or differently, t...

The Reconstruction Period of American History from 1865 until 1877

the emancipation of slaves (Burkart, n.d.). * Radical Republicans had another idea, those 11 states should be reverted to territor...

President Abraham Lincoln's Role in the US Period of Reconstruction

Eric Froner Consider Reconstruction a Failure? The reasons for the failure of reconstruction are itemized in the article....