Essays on Civil War

Located at the horn of Africa, Somalia has witnessed one of the longest civil wars dating back from 1991. Prior to the inception of this conflict, the country had enjoyed a democratic and peaceful rule from its leaders, after gaining their independence from Italy and Britain. Modern-day Somalia is, therefore,...

Dr. Dorothy Height was born in 1912 and died in April 2010. She was an American administrator and educator. She dedicated her life to social work, especially civil rights and women rights activist. She gave special attention to the issues affecting the African American women like unemployment, illiteracy and voting...

The American protest music has historical underpinnings and characterized the historical transition of the nation from one era to another. The analysis of the use of rhetoric from the time of Yankee Doodle to Kendrick Lamar shows how the revolution and social change undertones embedded in music had a huge...

William Jennings Bryan, who was running for president at the time in the United States elections, said during a political address, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." Remember that the government wanted...

President Abraham Lincoln released the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The emancipation had a significant effect on the war because it altered its course. The emancipation proclamation changed the focus of the war, which had originally been about "states rights," to slavery. A further benefit of the emancipation declaration...

Before the Civil War started, both the North and the South as a whole and the people living there had very different views on the subject of slavery. The U.S. Constitution, which was established in 1789, gave rise to numerous groups that were vying for control of the Union's future....

The "peculiar institution" of slavery during the American Civil War has been extensively discussed in writing over the years. We now have a clear understanding of what life was like during the Antebellum Period thanks to this abundance of information. The era was marked by an increase in abolition and...

Between 1789 and 1859, the American Civil War officially began. Over 600,000 people died as a result of this conflict between 1861 and 1865, though its effects were very noticeable. Numerous historians concur that the political history of the United States of America and movements that arose against then-common human...

Battle Lines, a graphic book, is a more effective historical education tool than traditional Civil War literature. The book, which was written by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, uses a variety of techniques to depict the actual events that led up to and fueled the Civil War, including drawings of...

To put it mildly, black people's lives in the South after the Civil War were complicated. On paper, Africans were then allowed to act and live however they wished. But that independence was elusive because of the part they had played ever since coming to America. The majority of people...

Land conflicts between people who engaged in sedentary agriculture and semi-nomad lifestyles were the root cause of the Darfur genocide. Access to water was also a major factor in the massacre. Another war in the south of Sudan is also blamed for the genocide in Darfur. Between animist black southerners...

Reconstruction took place between 1965 and 1877. The reconstruction phase has been judged to have been successful. Following the Civil War's division of the South's 11 states, the North and South were brought back together during the rebuilding era. The United States' peace was restored after the unity was brought...