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

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

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

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

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...

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

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...

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

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

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...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

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

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...

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...