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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

the peoples rights, so to speak, but rather the people were controlled and ruled by the government. In this particular line of ...

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

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

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

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

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

of practitioners" (Davidson, 1997, p. 13). The existing paradigms of the science community, according to Kuhn, are established vi...

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...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

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...

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

the political and social upheaval involved in the coming of the French Revolution. He primarily focuses on the political struggles...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...