Carleton S. Coon

the most to the South’s eventual defeat of the Confederates at the Battle of Gettysburg, but without the superb leadership of the Union general during this battle, it could have ended in a different result. Because of more popular names like Ulysses S. Grant and Stonewall Jackson, George Meade is often considered the forgotten general of the American Civil War. The three days at Gettysburg were the only three days that Meade had in command of the army, and with those days, he not only stopped…

"the President 's eyes, ears and legs" and provided objective information to her husband about what she learned while…

Prufrock” takes this fear to a whole new level. When reading the title of the poem, the reader would more than likely think that it was going to be a beautiful love song. Although, as the poem goes on its obvious that it is the exact opposite of that. T. S. Elliot takes what is a promise of a love song and turns it into more of a persistent reminder of how Prufrocks life is lonely and unfulfilling. Throughout the poem, Elliot uses irony in as many aspects as he could. The title is probably the…

victimize African Americans and Radical Republicans (white reformers) (Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, 2011). From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan 's goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance…

What is happiness? Do we have a right to have it? In the essay “We have no Right to Happiness” C. S Lewis claims that we do not have a right to happiness and sets his foundation on an anecdote. Throughout our life we meet so many different people; some are happy while some are not, but it is not up to us to decide whether they are happy or not, and what makes one person happy would make another person happy, or whether it is the right path to happiness. In the article mentioned above, Lewis…

After the civil war ended in 1865, the nation was left divided in two. The South was unstable- it’s economy was bad and they were still seething from their defeat in the Civil War. They were unable to focus on anything but their own problems. It was the North’s responsibility to take charge of the Reconstruction- a period that would restore America’s economy and attempt to instill civil rights for everyone, regardless of skin color. The South was racist and a lot more vocal about their…

In 1945, the year Truman was sworn into office, he was first notified about the nuclear weapons the United States had been constructing. “It was not until April 25, 1945, 13 days after the death of Franklin Roosevelt, that the new president, Harry S. Truman, was briefed about the Manhattan Project.” Before he took the oath to become president, as a result of the untimely death of President Franklin Roosevelt, he had no prior knowledge of the atomic bomb and was completely blindsided with the…

In 1866, one year following the civil war, Memphis broke out suddenly and dramatically with a three-day outbreak of racial violence. This included the whites rioting through neighborhoods that consisted of black people. Forty-six freed people were murdered by the moment the fires destroying black churches and schools had been put out. Congress was irate at the fact white opposition in the conquered South initiated what was called the Radical Reconstruction. This was a policy put in place to…

each other. On the other hand the Socials or how it 's shortened it in the book Socs (it is pronounced So-Shis) are the West side rich kids with fancy cars and lots of free time, which they use to jump greasers. The book “The…

democratic system after the end of the civil war. In Johnson 's view, the southern states had never surrendered their entitlement to represent themselves, and the national government had no privilege to decide voting necessities or different inquiries at the state level. Under Johnson 's Presidential Reconstruction, all land that had been appropriated by the Union Army and circulated to the liberated slaves by the armed force or the Freedmen 's Bureau returned to its prewar proprietors. Aside…