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Bill O’Reilly is a tv talk show host for Fox News. He is a journalist by trade and at one time he was a high school history teacher. Bill O’Reilly has also authored or coauthored many books including the one we are about to discuss. Killing Lincoln was written as if you are looking through the character’s eyes. Bill O’Reilly was a high school history teacher and even admits in the forward of the book Killing Lincoln he was surprised at all the conspiracies when they started writing the book.…

troops become malnourished. The food and water shortage is the real rival for the South. The Union captures all of the southern supply crates, forcing Lee to change the path to find his last food and water option towards Appomattox, Virginia. General Ulysses S. Grant leads the North towards the courthouse in Appomattox, where Lee and his Troops are courting. Grant traps Lee, eventually leading to the surrender of the Confederate Army (O’Reilly…

along water, our sewage gets released back into the water, and our millions of pounds of trash still find its way to our water ways. We need to preserve the trout population and their habitat and this isn’t sustainable, the way we’re doing it now. If Ulysses S. Grant were around to see the devastation that humans have had on the nation’s water sheds and fish habitats today, he’d be devastated. To keep trout around for the next generation and the generation after that we have to come up with a…

Van Bawi Thawng US Hist Hagenmaier 21 November, 2017 Lincoln’s First Inaugural address According to Professor Lucas Morel, President Lincoln gave his First Inaugural Address on March 4, 1861. Lincoln became president at a time when the United States looked like they were going to split. Seven Southern states declared separation when Lincoln came into office (Morel). Also, Morel says that Lincoln got all of his votes from the Northern states. To create peace within America, Lincoln talked…

After reading the article Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, I feel that Abraham Lincoln’s finest qualities were empathy, magnanimity and his Self-Control, which proved that he was one of the best presidents in the American history. From being an American statesman and lawyer from Springfield, Lincoln turned out to be the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln served from March 4,1861 until his assassination on April 15, 1865. From the 4 years that Lincoln served, he made a big impact…

Define ‘True Friendship” “Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.” -Ambrose Bierce Coming from an American Civil War veteran such as Bierce, it’s safe to say that he had a strong grasp on what the importance of friendship was and how he got to that point. Just imagine, Bierce being part of the Union army, having to fight the Confederates of his own country in a civil war when a country should be considered one people. I’d like to say that…

During his second inaugural speech, President Abe Lincoln examines the current status of the war that is dividing the nation and provides his prediction of what America will look like post-war. The first time Mr. Lincoln gave his first inaugural speech, he spoke out how the country was “anxiously” awaiting an “impending” war between the North and the South. The first inaugural speech was meant to keep the country “devoted” to keeping the Union together without war. This including the fact that…

The Country known as The United States of America, or America for short, has been through many different political changes through her lifetime, some bloody, some peaceful and she has had many different leaders with various ideas on how the county should be and how they see the future of how the country will be. Throughout America’s lifetime she has been through many different Revolutionary movements, one of which was called the Reconstruction. During the Reconstruction, there were many leaders,…

Currently, three plans have been proposed as to the reconstruction of the South and the United States as whole after the Civil War, also known as The War of Northern Aggression in the South. These plans have been proposed by the late President, Abraham Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson, and leader of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican party, Thaddeus Stevens. Each plan has varying degrees of punishments towards seceders and varying views upon slavery and the former Confederacy.…

Throughout the history of the United States, the status of president has been held by 43 different individuals, each of them with their own belief systems and methodology for running a country. However, when faced with the question as to which of these men were the most powerful leader and benevolently influenced our country the most, the figure of Abraham Lincoln stands out among all others. Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States of America, was by far the singular strongest…