“We’ve won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it,” General Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln (2012) encapsulates the Reconstruction Era’s limitations and failure to truly unite and rebuild post-Civil War America even a decade after. The Reconstruction Era was characterized by a fragmented country with a gridlocked Congress, violent, southern paramilitary…
“We’ve won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it,” General Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln (2012) encapsulates the Reconstruction Era’s limitations and failure to truly unite and rebuild post-Civil War America even a decade after. The Reconstruction Era was characterized by a fragmented country with a gridlocked Congress, violent, southern paramilitary…
“These slaves constituted a peculiar rand powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of war,” Abraham Lincoln stated in his second inaugural address according to Major Problems (2). That single speech succinctly explained the cause of the Civil War fought from 1861 through 1865 – slavery. Slavery and the economic, political…
The Iraq war is often cited as one of the worst intelligence failures in modern foreign policy history. The conflict claimed the lives of over 250,000 people under the false pretense that Iraq had obtained weapons of mass destruction (Matthews). Historians and foreign policy experts contest whether the framing of the intelligence resulted in war,…
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