The American Spectator

Many of the colonist felt that inflicting physical pain or the town spectacle of capital punishment, was not necessary answer for all crimes, neitherless a deterrence ”Anglo-American Elites began to worry that public punishment was doing more harm than good (“Far from preventing crime by terror they excite in… spectators [public punishment] are directly calculated to produce them.”) ”(Perkins,2010, 63). Penitentiaries were introduced with the sole purpose to implement rehabilitation towards…

in the white man. “White Americans did not expect blacks to participate in Reconstruction-era debates. “Blacks thought otherwise. The nation’s approximately four million African Americans, of whom roughly 3.5 million had been enslaved, were at the center of each of these questions. If white northerners had only gradually come to understand that the Civil War was a war to end slavery, they recognized immediately during the postwar era that the place of blacks in American society was…

In 1861, the American Civil War tore the country apart. With over 600,000 dead, the United States suffered from heartache and violence. Standing above the many who lost their lives were brave heroes, serving their country while standing up for what they believe in. Among these men was Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States. Through his bravery and strength came the stone statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. The history of Richmond centers around his personal struggles, the…

question, I had a completely blind look on the rocky road of American history. I really had no idea, and no opinion about how our country as we know it, was was made. This question has truly made me look deep and think even deeper as to how our country has developed. One of the most important things that I have learned this course is that American history constantly repeats itself. Starting with the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War, all the way to present day there have been…

A rich man 's war, and a poor man 's fight.” The Civil War The Civil War was the bloodiest war ever fought by Americans, and against fellow Americans. Several horrific battles highlighted America’s most gruesome history such as the Battles of Antietam and Gettysburg which drastically raised the body count due to the desperate battle plans and attacks carried out by hundreds to thousands of men sent to their deaths on suicide runs. The bloodshed and pain of the Civil War, furthered by errors…

Andre Fleche’s book The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict examines the Civil war on an international level. Unlike popular accounts of the Civil War as primarily a domestic dispute, Fleche assessed how the European revolutions of 1848 in influenced the North and South’s perceptions of the United States. This book examines how the Civil War actually fits into a general pattern of revolution where the nation developed into another form that would mature…

as Revolutionary Mothers, Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist, and A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American…

and while attending the game sketched the scene. A few months later in 1863 when he is paroled the drawing is reprinted as a lithograph that today hangs in the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The players were mostly POWs possibly from New Orleans and Tuscaloosa. Spectators included townspeople as well as the guards. Some guards were even armed with…

Crockett's passing ended up being more solidly settled to fanaticism. Onderdonk's The Fall of the Alamo highlights a Crockett who is fundamentally the mirror photo of Becker's 1896 Custer's Last Fight. Summoning the imagery of other fallen holy people, Americans can legitimize their tormented Western past with striking back instead of…

known “Cornerstone Speech”. To a crowd of spectators in Savannah, George, he elaborated on what he called “the new constitution”. His definition of the “new constitution” consisted of purposes based on the Confederate government. In addition, he informed the audience on matters of slavery as well as succession. Alexander Hamilton a well known confederate gave this speech with the notion that it would shine light on the new government amongst the American public. Furthermore, Hamilton’s…