These two novels are The Killer Angels by Michael Schaara and The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. ... As this hostility escaladed the outcome would be the bloodiest war ever waged on American soil. ... The Killer Angels main characters are Robert E. ... The setting of The Killer Angels the glorious three day battle of Gettysburg that changed the outcome the war. ... Without these books, no one could possibly imagine the emotions, sights, and personal feelings of all involved in the American Civil War. ...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Killer Angels Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels tells the amazing story of the Battle of Gettysburg. On July 1, 1863, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac fought the largest battle of the American Civil War. ... The Killer Angels gives great insight into the lives of those involved in the civil war. ...

• Word Count: 930
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Remember Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, Maybe refin'd and join th' angelic train. ... The first quatrain draws upon her new self as an American. ... As an African American woman slave, Wheatley had to read only what was thoughtfully handed down to her by white Americans. ... Phillis Wheatley used double meanings to speak what was otherwise unspeakable from her position as an African American woman slave in Revolutionary America. ... She parallels America enslaved by Great Brittan to slavery among whites and blacks in America. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

African-American studies scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explains the slave narrative in these terms: The Black slave narrators sought to indict both those who enslaved them and the meta- physical system drawn upon to justify their enslavement. ... American slave women were encouraged to graphically describe the sexual abuse they suffered to evoke sympathy. ...

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Clara Barton - Angel of the Battlefield When the Civil War broke out Clara Barton was one of the first volunteers to appear at the Washington Infirmary to care for wounded soldiers. ... "In my feeble estimation, General McClellan, with all his laurels, sinks into insignificance beside the true heroine of the age, the angel of the battlefield." ... On April 14th, as President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. ...

• Word Count: 1807
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The other history in the book is cultural because we brought the English culture to have free labor from slaves, but our founding fathers tried to change that to make America different from England. ... I, like a lot of people, have not seen the men as real people, pitted against their friends and family, all for the better of our unique American culture. ...

• Word Count: 1226
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Important people of the civil war The civil war (1861-1865) took more American lives than any other war in history. ... His ancestors had sailed to America in the early colonial period. ... He also looked to correct injustices that were lived by American Indians. ... Barton was called the Angel of the Battlefield. ... He entered Lincoln's private box and shot him in the head during the play Our American Cousin. ...

• Word Count: 1532
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In his Narrative, Douglass exposes many striking and disturbing aspects of slavery in America. ... Christians believe that Satan is subordinate to God, a fallen angel, and Douglass shows that, in the same way, Auld is regarded as a false master, even though he strives for that power. ... Moving ahead to September of 1862, Douglass writes his thoughts about President Lincoln's speech to African Americans in Washington, D.C. ... To add even more insult to injury, President Lincoln suggested that the African Americans should be sent back to Africa because the two races could not exist tog...

• Word Count: 1650
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School