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David Donald Why the North Won the Civil War

Jefferson Davis inferiority to Lincoln, for he never developed an overall strategy or devised a unified command system for the ent...

'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

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

Investigating the Civil War Causes

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

After the Civil War and the Role of Women in Virginia

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

The Turn of the Century Expansionism of America

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

Long and Short Term Causes of the English Civil War

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

Political Influences on Salvador Dali

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

Civil War Changes in North and South Politics and Society

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

Civil War and the Participation of Texas

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

Expression Changes in the Later Poetry of Walt Whitman

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

Investment Banker Jay Cooke

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

American Attitude Foundations

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

Civil War and Reconstruction Social Welfare Programs

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

New Yorkers Walt Whitman, Frederick Law Olmsted and the NYC Military's Contributions

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

North and South Advantages During the Civil War

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

Civil War Context of Literary Characters Henry Fleming and Huckleberry Finn

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

'The Appeal' by David Walker

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 ...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara and the Depiction of Civil War Generals Longstreet and Lee

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

Reconstruction and the Civil War

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

Overview of the English Civil War

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

Southern Slavery and its Social Status

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

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...

Civil War Fighting and the Need of Manpower

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

Reconstruction Era's Early and Late Stages

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

Union and Confederacy Battle Plans During the Civil War

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

3 Factors Responsible for the Success of the Civil Rights Movement

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...

Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Their Differences

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

United States After the Civil War and Considerations of Economics, Workers' Rights, and Ethnicity

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