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the rights to rid themselves of the negative liberty. But, after the Civil War the approach became one that focused on protection ...

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

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

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

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

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

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

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

incredible focus in many respects. In McPhersons book he presents the argument, from during the Civil War, that "Rich men could ...

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

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

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

soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

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

the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...

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

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 ...

great impact on the national notions and approach to freedom and civil equality. From as early as his Inaugural Address, Pr...

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

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

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

section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to b...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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