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How America has Failed to Addressthe Legacy of the Civil War


Civil War, U.S. | The First Amendment Encyclopedia

From the start of Lincoln's presidency, the Northern press gave voice to many of his critics. Newspapers argued that secession was the ...

So to Speak Podcast Transcript: Civil liberties and Civil War

And President Lincoln, the controversial figure at the heart of the war was assassinated less than a week later. The legacy of the Civil War and the long story ...

Reconstruction - Texas State Historical Association

For nine years following the Civil War, Texas was in turmoil, as its people attempted to solve political, social, and economic problems produced ...

The US-Dakota War of 1862 | Minnesota Historical Society

In early August 1862, recruitment of the Sixth through Eleventh Infantry regiments meant for service in the Civil War had commenced. When news of Dakota ...

election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, secession, slavery ...

But by 1860, most Americans did not want compromise. They feared the ... In our resource history is presented through a series of narratives, primary ...

U.S. Students' Disturbing Lack of Knowledge About Slavery | NEA

In addition to being unable to correctly cite slavery as the central cause of the Civil War (almost half of the respondents selected "to protest ...

Remarks of President Joe Biden -- State of the Union Address As ...

... American people that this is no ordinary moment either. Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under ...

Cold War Diplomacy

The Influence of American Diplomats. The modern Civil Rights movement required American diplomats to address this contradiction. They had to reconcile their ...

The American Civil War as a Conservative Revolution – Adam Smith

The nation that emerged from the war even had a new name – it was increasingly known as “America” rather than “the Union” – and its governing ...

Conceptualising the Causes and Consequences of Failed States

The interest in state breakdown at this core level has been sparked by the urgency of understanding the factors behind political violence and civil war, and the ...

Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War: A Matter for Interpretation

War was the surest, and perhaps the only way to destroy the institution of slavery at that moment. There was great optimism among African ...

Book Review: How the Civil War's Barons Helped Win the War

Many overextended themselves or were unable to sustain their success after the war. Others extrapolated their processes and changed to meet the ...

H.R. 40 Is Not a Symbolic Act. It's a Path to Restorative Justice. | ACLU

Moreover, the mythology built around the Civil War has obscured our discussions of the impact of chattel slavery and made it difficult to have ...

Period 5: 1848-1877 (AP US History)

5.3: The Union victory in the Civil War and the contested reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession, but left ...

The Civil War never ended - New Statesman

The white southern narrative of the “lost cause” – which holds that the war was nobly fought over “freedom” and “states' rights”, upon which the ...

The American Civil War: The Legacy of Social and Economic Control

And although they had formally lost, they did not willingly capitulate to the federal government (the Union) at the moment of military surrender ...

History in a Nutshell | Reconstruction Amendments | Season 1 - PBS

Right after the Civil War, Washington did not have a clear plan as to what to do with the newly freed African Americans living in the U.S. Only when ...

Rooted in racism and economic exploitation: The failed Southern ...

Business interests and the wealthy have stoked racial divisions to maintain power and ensure access to cheap labor—at the expense of working ...

The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as ...

To illustrate these claims, the article demonstrates how the American Civil War is best understood as an inter-societal conflict, exacerbated by ...

The Looming National Security Crisis: Young Americans Unable to ...

The military depends on a constant flow of volunteers each year; as the number of eligible Americans declines, it is increasingly difficult to ...