After the Civil War had ended, several soldiers had returned home to find their places of living destroyed. Most of these people returned to practically nothing. The United States had to rebuild itself, and this rebuilding was called Reconstruction. Today historians refer to this era of recons...

The Gilded Age brought about many reforms in many ways affecting basically all ways of life of the people in America. The churches started their change with the physical appearance of the churches. The church house went from a homely little building to an extravagant building representing the wealth...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a renowned novel by Mark Twain, is the story of a young boy, who, in a desperate attempt to escape his abusive and poverty stricken home, escapes and seeks help with the Mississippi River, where he experiences many different trials. The novel was finally published...

The Reconstruction: a tragic era? Some professional historians from the 1890s to the 1940s regarded Reconstruction as a "tragic era." Was it really a tragic era? Did it adequately fulfill its role in the rebuilding of the Nation? In many ways, it did do its job, such as the abo...

Reconstruction was needed for this country to come back together after the Civil War. The north and the south had been divided and didn't know how to come back together again without intervention from the government. I believe that Reconstruction helped the African-Americans get some of the fr...

Joshua L. Chamberlain and the Battle of Gettysburg What comes to your mind when you think of the Battle of Gettysburg? Maybe you think of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address, Picket's Charge, or all of the casualties from the three days of fighting. Many times we don't thi...