Origins of the American Civil War

William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize Laureate who lived and died in Mississippi. Faulkner is one of Americas most highly respected writers and particularly praised for his Southern literature. He is known for his authenticity when it comes to the Southern way of life. He often used his real life experiences and included the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha which was based on the real-life county he grew up in many of his stories "A Rose for Emily" included. His…

Catton, Bruce. The Civil War. Boston, Massachusetts, Mariner Books, 2004. Cost $0.01+ shipping cost $3.99 + Tax $0.33= Total Cost $4.33 Analysis of “The Civil War by Bruce Catton” The Civil War is a novel written by Bruce Catton In his earlier life, Catton studied at Oberlin College, but he had to leave without a degree due to his service in World War I. After the war he returned home and became a journalist and an editor for the American Heritage magazine and later he became an American…

things that African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans have in common would have to be being an oppressed population in the United States. Each of these groups have been judge and mistreated. European Americans saw something each of these racial groups had and wanted it and knew in order to get what they wanted all they had to do was take it. African Americans started out as slaves they were seen as objects and not humans. European Americans treated African Americans as if they…

hardship the American Civil War brought upon not only the soldiers fighting the battles along with the generals and political officials at the front of the war but also how the civilians were affected. The book shows how people of this time dealt with death and how the death of so many young soldiers would change their lives forever. It is evident after reading this book that the war brought many struggles that the American people were not prepared for since they had never been involved in a war…

many leaders with different agendas have come and gone. Many political movements have left its mark on American history, Reconstruction was one such movement. It was a time period in American history after the civil war where the whole country was at unrest. Years of constant tensions between northern abolitionist and the southern pro slavery plantation owners pushed United States to the Civil war, the greatest tragedy in the history of our country. North had defeated the South and destroyed it…

Darshan History 1301 Joseph Davey Oct 30 2016 Slavery in U.S. focusing on Lincoln and Stephen speeches The African slavery started in North America in 1619 at Virginia. In 1936, American built the 1st slave ship launched from Massachusetts. The proslavery and antislavery had the battle in out frequently with violent outcomes in making the opposition expand to slavery to became the defining issue for the Republic Party. Both Lincoln and Stephen speeches’ had a historical explanation of the…

The purpose and goals of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War have been a hotly debated topic. On one end of the spectrum is the belief that the war began with the intent of preserving the Union, and ended with the intent of abolishing slavery. On the other end is the belief that goals in the war were consistently pointed towards the preservation of the Union. Abraham Lincoln, when inaugurated, fully intended to make it his only goal to preserve the Union, and to stay out of most…

Confederate General Robert E. Lee is possibly the most controversial and yet widely respected out of all the Civil War commanders. Historians have held different views about the beloved General for over a hundred years, such as Robert W. Winston in his book Robert E. Lee; A Biography (1934), Michael Fellman in The Making of Robert E. Lee (2000), and Margaret Sanborn’s Robert E. Lee: A Portrait (1966). Winston’s theme in his book created a different outlook on General Lee than the latter two…

past decade, African American students have been put through the grinder to gain equality in the public school system. School is seen as a method to help young adults integrate themselves in today’s society, still til this day education has been a struggle for African American students. The lacking of potential so to speak in public schools stirs up a contraversal topic of conversation among those of the highest form of government to the lowest form poverty stricten American households. A…

In 1861, eleven southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, thus marking the start of the American Civil War. The war was not ended until 1865, and it became one of the most destructive war in the American history. On the other hand, it also shows how the northern states and the southern states were already diverging from one another in just less than a hundred years after the founding of the United States. From the period between 1740 and 1865, the…