Book Summary The book covers the reconstruction era in America during the years in the nineteenth century and reveals the actions that were done to attain equality of the northern and southern parts of the country. Particularly he focusses on the reconstruction of the southern black people who had experienced...

In his introduction, Tony Horwitz recalls the very unusual time when his sleep is crudely terminated by the fierce crackling gunfire (Horwitz, 1999). The sound emanated from stage civil war replication that was being recorded outside his house. Tony was once been a young child who used to spend substantial...

Question 1 The American Civil War was fought between the North and the South between 1850 and 1860. One of the main sources of contention was slavery. The Civil War was a ‘needless’ conflict because it happened due to the rise to power of the ‘blundering’ generation of politicians. The...

The American Civil War waged from 1861 to 1865, consisting of intense battles between the northern and southern United States primarily over the issue of slavery and its role in the nation’s economy. Conflict had waged long before the beginning of the war, however, and it appears that the irreparable...

Introduction TV and film adaptations of literature do more than translate the written work to the visual medium. When different productions are made from the same story, audiences are usually exposed to very different ideas of the meaning of the work. As the following supports, the 1969 French and “Alfred...