Civil War Essays (Examples)
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Carrie Chapman And The Women S Movement
… firmly established culturally that a woman’s place was in the domestic sphere. That notion would not really be challenged until WWII and the post-war era, when the next wave of the Women’s Movement was getting started by Betty Friedan and her book The Feminine Mystique, which advocated … early 20th century such steps would have been unfathomable. It was an entirely different world in those days and it took two World war to change it. The First World war helped to light a fire for Progressivism, which is why the 1920s saw so much social and political change in America. The Second … to light a fire for Progressivism, which is why the 1920s saw so much social and political change in America. The Second World war helped to set the stage for the Women’s Movement shifting into a higher gear. The American civil war in the 19th century……
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Blackwell, E. (1850). Elizabeth Blackwell on the 1850 Women\\\\\\'s Rights Convention. Retrieved from http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/WomansRights/blackwell_comments.html
Griffith, E. (1984). In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York: Oxford University Press.
History. (2019). Women’s suffrage. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage
Lawson, E. N. (2013). Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws: Prohibition and New York City. SUNY Press.
Siegel, R. B. (1994). Home as Work: The First Woman\\\\\\'s Rights Claims Concerning
Wives\\\\\\' Household Labor, 1850-1880. The Yale Law Journal, 103(5), 1073-1217.
Van Voris, J. (1996). Carrie Chapman Catt: A Public Life. New York City: Feminist Press at CUNY.
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Harpers Ferry Raid
… his mission to free the slaves (Furnas).
The entire nation was on edge throughout the 1850s as the U.S. continued to spread west war the Pacific. It was unclear, however, whether the states in the west would be slave states or free states. The conflict in Kansas … Railroad project and got to know Douglass and others by creating an abolitionist center in Massachusetts. Brown helped to free slaves and actively war upon those who facilitated slavery (Furnas). As Brown gained experience in his raids, he plotted a bigger attack on the South, a planned … slave revolt. He had his sights set on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Douglass opposed the scheme believing it would fail—but Brown pushed war, always the man of action. Herman Melville would later write a poem about the man and refer to him as “Weird John Brown” … conceived plot and a delusion……
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Works Cited
Barney, William L. "Brown, John". The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Student Companion. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2001.
Furnas, J. C. The Road to Harpers Ferry. New York, William Sloane Associates, 1959.
Hoffer, Williamjames Hull. The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Horwitz, Tony. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. Henry Holt and Company, 2011.
McGlone, Robert E. John Brown's War against Slavery. Cambridge, CUP, 2009.
Smith, Ted A., Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015.
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Racial Tension And Violence In To Kill A Mockingbird
… film adaptation of the 1960 novel by Harper Lee of the same name. The film was produced during a decade in which the civil Rights Movement was reaching its zenith. Blacks had been protesting throughout the South, and Martin Luther King, Jr., would be arrested in Birmingham … arrested in Birmingham in 1963. There he would write his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, justifying his actions at the front of the civil disobedience. Soon thereafter would be the march to Washington and then the Selma to Montgomery march. In short, race and desegregation was on … reflects the Jim Crow spirit that put blacks on an unequal footing with whites for nearly a century following the end of the civil war. The poverty of the farmers and blacks like Tom reflected the reality of life at mid-century in America: only the chosen few were … the farmers and blacks……
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Executive Order 10925. Thecre. https://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal6/eo10925.htm
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Promises Of Democracy Capitalism In Ukraine
… point), who promised to return Crimea to Ukraine (though the Crimean people themselves voted for annexation and a return to Russia), and the civil war that ensued ensured a limited run by Poroshenko and he gave way to Volodymyr Zelensky, who subsequently assured the world that President Trump … control the puppet in politics, as has been the case throughout the history of democracy and capitalism all around the world.
Conclusion
The civil war in the Donbass region of Ukraine has been an indirect outcome of Putin’s war with the oligarchs in Russia. The collapse of Communism in Russia led to an opportunity for men like Berezovsky to strike it rich … his way into the Kremlin. When Putin came to power, however, the game was up, and Berezovsky fled to UK and launched his war against Putin by supporting a coup in Ukraine. civil war broke out between……
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Alexievich, S. (2007). Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets. NY: Random House.
Alexievich, S. (2017). The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II. NY: Random House.
BBC. (2012). Russian godfathers. Retrieved from https://www.documentary24.com/russian-godfathers-putin-and-the-oligarchs--848/
Forbes. (2020). Ihor Kolomoyskyy. Retrieved from https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-russian-oligarchs-changed-country%E2%80%94and-not-better-97472
Klebnikov, P. (2000). Godfather of the Kremlin. New York, NY: Harcourt.
IMF. (2007). Report for Ukraine. Retrieved from https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2007/02/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=1992&ey=2008&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=926&s=PPPGDP&grp=0&a=&pr1.x=41&pr1.y=2
Mezrich, B. (2015). Once upon a time in Russia. New York, NY: Atria.
Risen, J. (2019). I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2019/09/25/i-wrote-about-the-bidens-and-ukraine-years-ago-then-the-right-wing-spin-machine-turned-the-story-upside-down/
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The History Of Dorothea Dix
Women, war and Nursing
Part 1
The role of women, war and politics impacted the growth of the nursing profession primarily through the work of women like Clara Barton, the founder of the American … work of women like Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross and known as the Angel of the Battlefield during the civil war, as she never hesitated to visit soldiers to comfort them and bring whatever aid should could, even though she was only a self-taught … to visit soldiers to comfort them and bring whatever aid should could, even though she was only a self-taught nurse at the time (war & Kavenick, 1990). Women had a limited capacity to take part in the war as a soldier (though some did); to serve their country and assist the men who did fight, they would act as nurses and … who did fight, they……
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Brown, T. J. (1998). Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer (Vol. 127). Harvard University Press.
Darraj, S. M. (2009). Mary Eliza Mahoney. Infobase Publishing.
Fantel, H. (1974). William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co.
Gollaher, D. L. (1993). Dorothea Dix and the English origins of the American asylum movement. Canadian Review of American Studies, 23(3), 149-176.
Hardy, S., & Corones, A. (2017). The nurse’s uniform as ethopoietic fashion. Fashion Theory, 21(5), 523-552.
Hathway, M. (1934). Dorothea Dix and Social Reform in Western Pennsylvania, 1845-1875. Western Pennsylvania History: 1918-2018, 17(4), 247-258.
Howard, A. & Kavenick, F. (1990). Handbook of American women’s history. New York, NY: Garland.
Modak, T., Sarkar, S., & Sagar, R. (2016). Dorothea dix: A proponent of humane treatment of mentally ill. Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour, 21(1), 69.
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Military History
The Past Present and Future of war Impact of Technology and Strategy
Introduction
Military tactics and strategies are essential in war. Without the right tactics and strategy, it is impossible to win war. By definition, military strategy is the planning, coordination, and implementation of military operations to meet some set objectives. Tactics can be defined as … According to renowned Carl von Clausewitz, who was a distinguished military strategist and theorist, the strategy is how to utilize battles to win war and tactics is how to utilize troops and weaponry in battles (Phifer, 2012). However, both tactics and strategies have been theorized, defined, or … information. They have also become more and more challenging to differentiate from strategies because they have become more interdependent (Phifer, 2012).
Principles of war
Military theorists and commanders have throughout history formulated what they regarded as the most important tactical and strategic principles of war.……
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Grieco, K. A. (2018). The 2018 national defense strategy: continuity and competition. Strategic Studies Quarterly, 12(2), 3-8.
Henry, R. S. (2016). “First With the Most” Forrest. Pickle Partners Publishing.
Hundley, R. O. (1999). Past Revolutions, Future Transformations. What Can the History of Revolutions in Military Affairs Tell us about Transforming the US Military? (No. RAND-MR-1029-DARPA). RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA.
Noel, E. (1905). Gustaf Adolf (King of Sweden): The Father of Modern War. Bale & Danielsson.
Parrot, D. A. (1985). Strategy and Tactics in the Thirty Years\\\\\\\\\\\\' War: The\\\\\\\\\\\\" Military Revolution.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, (2), 7.
Phifer, M. (2012). A Handbook of Military Strategy and Tactics. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd.
RisCassi, R. W. (1997). Doctrine for joint operations in a combined environment: A necessity. Military Review, 77(1), 103.
Steele, B. (2005). Military Reengineering Between the World Wars. RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA.
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Should Reparations Be Paid To Native Americans And African Americans
… millions of African Americans and American Indians. The interest of justice compel modern lawmakers to take these wrongdoings into account as the move war as a nation of like-minded peoples. Indeed, it would be enormously difficult or even impossible to single out living descendants of those responsible … Indeed, it would be enormously difficult or even impossible to single out living descendants of those responsible for genocidal actions during the Indian war. Moreover, if reparations were paid to American Indians, it would leave the door wide open for descendents of Americans, most especially women that ……
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Bradford, W. (2004). Beyond reparations: An American Indian theory of justice. Ohio State Law Journal.
Flavin, F. E. (2002, Winter). A pox on Amherst: Smallpox, Sir Jeffery, and a town named Amherst. Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 30(1), 1-5.
Forrester, K. (2019). Reparations, history and the origins of global justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Gilmore, B. & Adams, H. (2019). The case for a reparations clinic. Michigan State Law Review.
Howard-Hassmann, R. E. (2004). Reparations to Africa and the group of eminent persons. Cahiers d’étudesafricaines.
Lenzerini, F. (2007). Reparations for indigenous peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lockhart, P. (2019, June 19). The 2020 Democratic primary debate over reparations, explained. Vox. Retrieved from https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/11/18246741/ reparations-democrats-2020-inequality-warren-harris-castro.
Loewen, J. W. (1995). Lies my teacher told me. New York: The New Press.
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Indian Removal Act 1830
… of the electric telegraph and what it could mean for the world—i.e., America: “This noble invention is to be the means of extending civil, republicanism, and Christianity over the earth. It must and will be extended to nations half-civil, and thence to those now savage and barbarous…”[footnoteRef:3] This sentiment was also expressed by John O’Sullivan, who coined the phrase “Manifest Destiny” to ……
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Primary Sources
Crockett, Davy, “On the removal of the Cherokees, 1834,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/spotlight-primary-source/davy-crockett-removal-cherokees-1834
“The Magnetic Telegraph.” Ladies’ Repository 10(1850): 61-62. O’Sullivan, John. “Annexation.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, vol.17, no. 1 (July-August 1845): 5-10.
Sevier, John. Letter to the Cherokee. DPLA. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/cherokee-removal-and-the-trail-of-tears/sources/1500
Secondary Sources
Brown-Rice, Kathleen. "Examining the Theory of Historical Trauma Among Native Americans." Professional Counselor 3, no. 3 (2013).
Cave, Alfred A. "Abuse of power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian removal act of 1830." The Historian 65, no. 6 (2003): 1330-1353.
Cherokee Preservation Foundation. “About the Eastern Band.” Cherokee Preservation, 2010. http://cherokeepreservation.org/who-we-are/about-the-ebci/
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Impact Of Class Gender Ethnicity Culture And Politics As They Relate
… for they still wished to deny the Negro his fair share of equality. Slavery persisted for nearly another century and it took the civil war to bring that issue to the fore, with the Great Emancipator finally taking the first steps in freeing slaves in states still occupied … did not establish equal rights for blacks and Jim Crow laws sprang up in numerous states. It would be another century before the civil Rights Act would finally ensure protection under the law for all.
Women, too, did not enjoy the kind of “equality” that the Declaration … could see—and when the WASPs ran out of land out West they turned to foreign lands, which is one reason the Spanish American war was fought in the Philippines, a Catholic country that the WASPs proceeded to ravage, viewing Catholicism as a savage religion unfit for the ……
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Declaration of Independence. (1776). Retrieved from http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/compare.html
Guelzo, A. C. (2000). Lincoln and the Abolitionists. The Wilson Quarterly, 24(4), 58-70.
O’Sullivan, J. (1845). Annexation. United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 17(1), 5-10.
Paine, T. (1791). The rights of man. Retrieved from https://www.ushistory.org/Paine/rights/
Van Voris, J. (1996). Carrie Chapman Catt: A Public Life. New York City: Feminist Press at CUNY.
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How Religious Beliefs Affected Colonial Social Structure In America
… began to emerge in opposition to slavery. Women advocates like Angelina Grimke Weld and Sojourner Truth, traveled about the country prior to the civil war speaking about both women’s rights and the evils of slavery. They couched their rhetoric in religious doctrines, though each used different methods of … Truth, however, advocated for the abolishment of slavery and helped to lay the foundation for social change that would come about following the civil war.
In conclusion, religion affected the social structure of colonial America in different ways, depending on the religion of the community. The Quakers in … they started out with political positions they eventually abandoned those posts. The New England Puritans created a social structure in which shrewdness was war as they linked salvation with worldly success. The Anglicans and Deists saw themselves as the Elect and everyone else as beneath them. The ……
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Fantel, Hans. William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co., 1974.
Graham, Michael. "Posish Plots: Protestant Fears in Early Colonial Maryland, 1676-1689." The Catholic historical review 79.2 (1993): 197-216.
Holton, W. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Laux, John. Church History. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1933.
Melville, Herman. Clarel. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005201424&view=1up&seq=9
Milder, R. Herman Melville. New York: Columbia University Press,1988.
Pyle, Ralph E., and James D. Davidson. "The origins of religious stratification in colonial America." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42.1 (2003): 57-75.
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