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Essays 391 - 420
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...
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 ...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
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...
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...
those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...
The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...
itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...
founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...
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...
in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...
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...
G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...
In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...
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...
Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...
Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...
While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...