First Battle of Bull Run

by American exceptionalism and the myth of progress and expansion in the American West. Nowhere is this more apparent than the mythos surrounding Custer and the battle of the Little Bighorn. For many Americans, Custer is remembered as a war hero who was “gallantly” vanquished with his men on Last Stand…

Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican elected to the position of President, but came from a humble origin to reach the most senior positions of the countries. He proved noble nature, a respectable person. Abraham Lincoln was a gifted orator, a prominent army commander and the President of patience and determination. Abraham…

Canal. He also received Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to negotiate the Russian-Japanese war. He also earned a reputation as a great ecologist for his act in setting aside 125 million acres for national forests. Theodor was first President to win the Nobel Peace Prize, first President to ride in an automobile,…

For four years between 1861 and 1865 the United States engaged in a civil war. The war started all over some disagreements between the free and slave states. It helped determine what kind of nation they would be. The Civil War was the first total war, meaning it not only inflicted on soldiers, but civilians, land, and cities. This impacted the women in many different ways. There were women who were soldiers, spies, nurses, and ones who stayed on the home front. Historians often say…

a compliment. Jackson is an individual that cannot be pinned down. Just as the other biographers were doing, Hettle, in his analysis of the authors, builds an image of Jackson that is not far off from what is generally believed. It is within this first chapter we begin to see the tone of the book as Hettle is creating a psychological analysis of Jackson and nothing about his actions. The second chapter focuses on Robert Lewis Dabney’s biography of Jackson. In this instance, Dabney has been used…

Heroes typically have the characteristics of being strong and fearless. The ancient hero Gilgamesh had these ideals in the story the Epic of Gilgamesh, written in Western Asia in 2000 B.C.E. Even though these ideals are present, they are not as evident in the hero Harry Potter from J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series written in the 21st century. However, in almost every book, no matter what the culture or time period are, the same basic themes of character traits, power and death recur. Even…

light to inventors, looking for new ways to communicate, and has impacted us in today’s society. The telegraph was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse, assisted by Alfred Vail. Two inventions helped Morse propel his invention to success. First, in 1800, the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) invented the battery, which reliably stored an electric current and allowed the current to be used in a controlled environment. Second, in 1820, the Danish physicist Hans Christian…

prominence was more effective. This was largely due to gender stereotyping during the 19th century. Women were assumed to be too stupid to gather intelligence or have any effect on the war efforts. Men would regularly talk openly in front of women about battle plans, strategic movements or new weaponry. Mary Elizabeth Bowser was one of Jefferson Davis’s slaves who relaid crucial information to northern generals. Davis assumed that his slave who never do anything to rebel, which might have cost…

The Civil War was a time of terrible social turmoil and bloodshed for the American people. However, it was also a time of great innovation and creation by both the Union and the Confederacy. As the intellectuals of the two sides invented better and more efficient ways to hasten the slaughter of their countrymen, the leadership of the Union and Confederacy lost no time in their application of these new arsenals. The Civil War is the war that has seen the greatest loss of American men, and the…

Before writing and signing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s presidency was consumed with war and defeat and while the Emancipation Proclamation went against Lincoln’s original pledge “I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists”(The Lincoln-Douglas Debates); Lincoln believed it was the only way to save the union and to reestablish order in this great nation. The Emancipation Proclamation will go down in history as…