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of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

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...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

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

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

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...

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...

In four pages society's conflict is examined with a contrast and comparison of Marx's and Coser's theories. Two sources are cited...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

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 ...

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

splitting of people as the cause of the condition of alienation. Marx believes that the effects of Capitalism that split workers ...

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

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

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