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. . . 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 ...

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...

was California Congresswoman, Barbara Lee who received death threats after she had the unmitigated courage to cast the only vote a...

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...

be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

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

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

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

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...