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Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

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

Confederate Women During The American Civil War

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

US Civil War and the Gatling Gun

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

Confederate Black Soldiers

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

Similarities in the Images of September 11, 2001 and the Civil War as Remembered in the Jimmy Carter Museum

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

Political and Economic Reasons Why The South Lost The Civil War

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

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...

Economy During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

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

Investment Banker Jay Cooke

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

American Attitude Foundations

appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...

U.S. Civil War and Abraham Lincoln

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

Expression Changes in the Later Poetry of Walt Whitman

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

Civil War and the Participation of Texas

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

U.S. Reconstruction and Labor Arrangements

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

New Yorkers Walt Whitman, Frederick Law Olmsted and the NYC Military's Contributions

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

Florida and Education Prior to and Following the U.S. Civil War

In five pages education in Florida during the nineteenth century is examined in terms of the implications of social, economic, and...

Investigating the Civil War Causes

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

Political Influences on Salvador Dali

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

'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

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

Civil War Changes in North and South Politics and Society

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

Civil War and Reconstruction Social Welfare Programs

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

U.S. Civil War Outcome and the Role of Weapons

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

Long and Short Term Causes of the English Civil War

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

Post U.S. Civil War Immigration

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...

US Civil War Women

In nine pages the stories of Captain Sally and Dr. Mary Walker's spy activities are chronicled in this overview of the US Civil Wa...

Pre and Post Civil War Sectionalism

In five pages this paper discusses America's pre and post Civil War sectionalism issues. Four sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Analyzing the Society Division of Labor According to Emile Durkheim

In twelve pages Durkheim's text The Division of Labor in Society is examined within the context to lynchings in the American South...

The Unvanquished by William Faulkner and Perceptions of Southern Women's Roles

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...

Civil War Art and Folk Music

In five pages this paper examines slave art and music during the years of the Civil War along with a consideration of family durin...

U.S. Government Agency the Secret Service

In six pages this paper discusses the Secret Service from its pre Civil War origins to the present day protection of U.S. Presiden...