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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 ...

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...

would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...

to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

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

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

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

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...

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...