Ken Burns The Civil War

Soldiers of the American Civil War were overwhelmed by a time where weaponry and technological developments were thriving. This brutal war changed the soldiers, both mentally and physically, and continued to have an impact throughout their entire lives. There were not only many deaths during the war, but also prior to the war as many soldiers took their own life. They would experience disturbing thoughts and events in their mind that could not be explained until they became known as mental illnesses. The exploration of psychological disorders following the Civil War improved medical diagnostic tools and the way patients were treated which transformed the treatment of mental illness by creating new ways of discovering illnesses, treating patients, and developing the foundation for the future of psychology throughout America.

Indisputably, a great tragedy was inflicted upon the people of Charleston, South Carolina. Indisputably, nine innocent people were murdered in a prayer service on the evening of June 17, 2015. The suspected perpetrator of this massacre is twenty-one year old, and South Carolina native, Dylan Roof. A website was discovered that contained 60 images depicting Roof committing such acts as burning and spitting on American flags, waving confederate flags, and posing with guns. Also, on this website

Roof was completely sane when he performed these murders and felt that he was proving a “justice” in a way. He believed that he was getting revenge for all the “black on white crimes”. Roof claimed that the reason he chose Charleston was because the church was and still is a landmark black church (Corasaniti). Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church has been around for over 200 years and has experienced many violent hate crimes in the past, but now in 2015 they were not expecting anything like this. Among the nine victims that Roof killed was the church’s pastor, Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, who he sat next to for an hour in the church’s bible study prior to killing him. Roof reportedly started ranting about African Americans after sitting there for that hour, and then proceeded to the killings. Even though Roof was a member of “The Council of Conservative Citizens”, it is believed that during that hour he was debating whether or not to go through with the murders. Perhaps, Roof considered for a moment that what he was about to do was wrong, but chose to continue after pondering over his thoughts for that

In an ordinary evening Bible study on June 17, 2015 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, an unimaginable tragedy occurred. Dylann Roof, a self-proclaimed white supremacist shot and killed nine African Americans with intentions of starting a race war.

This chapter “Transforming Fire the Civil War 1861-1865” covers one of the bloodiest war in Joined States history that made major political, money related, and social change for the North and South. Both the North and South expected that the Normal War would end quickly; in the meantime, as the exchange of the military engagements of the underlying two years appears, both were stirred up.

June 17, 2015, a dreadful shooting that occurred during a bible study service in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Storm Roof, age 22, killed nine people, all African American, and one injured that left everyone speechless that night. Before the shooting, a white man with a handgun enter the church while he was soon identifies as Dylann Roof by several people, then open fire and killed nine people including the Senior Pastor and State Senator. After the shooting, Roof was soon the center of a manhunt that ended the next morning after the shooting. Before all this incident occurred, Roof wasn't planning to go after the church, but he had different plan. According to his childhood friend, Roof was

Guns fired, smoke lingering in the air, people dying. The American Civil War had a huge impact on the United States. Two compromises took place before the start of the Civil War. These compromises include the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. The Missouri Compromise dealt with the crisis in 1819 over Missouri entering the Union as a slave state. The compromise was “the first major crisis over slavery, and it shattered a tacit agreement between the two regions that had been in place since the constitution. Under the terms of the agreement, the North would not interfere with slavery in the Southern States, and the South would recognize slavery as an evil that should be discouraged and eventually abolished whenever it was safe and feasible to do so” (Stauffer). The compromise showed the belief that was shared by most of the Founding Fathers and the framers of the Constitution: that slavery was wrong. Thirty-one years later, the Compromise of 1850 was created. This compromise “consisted of five basic parts, the most onerous of which was a stringent fugitive slave law that denied suspected fugitives the right to a jury by trial and virtually legislated slave stealing.The Fugitive Slave law converted countless northerners to the antislavery cause” (Stauffer). Although the Fugitive Slave law, one of the five parts of the Compromise of 1850, caused many northerners to start believing the antislavery cause, the compromise itself achieved the opposite of its intentions.

During his childhood, Tony Horwitz became absolutely fascinated with the Civil War. He had books, and toys, and even a hand painted mural. Over the years, he grew up and his enthusiasm waned until, after returning to the US after being away for work, Horwitz and his wife were woken up one morning by gunfire. The gunfire was caused by civil war reenactors who were volunteering for a TV documentary on the Battle of Fredericksburg. Horwitz, having had been a massive civil war buff when he was little, went to talk to the reenactors. There he was introduced to two types of reenactors. One group were called Hardcores, these were the people who would go all out in their authenticity. As Horwitz stated, “They swore absolute fidelity to the 1860s” (7). They ate only food that the Civil War soldiers would have eaten such as hardtack and salt pork. They were all on very restrictive diets so that they could achieve the sunken-eyed look of underfed soldiers. They recreationally slept outside in the freezing cold merely for authenticities sake.

It saddens me that even in this day and age racial terrorism still exists. One major event that reflects this is the Charleston, South Carolina, Church shooting that occurred last Tuesday June 17. On this day, 21-year-old Dylann Roof attended a bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and after about an hour he opened fire to the members who attended the study. Consequentially 10 people were shot and unfortunately 9 of them did not survive.

The American civil war was the second most important war to Americans. The war was about a lot of things but mostly the end slavery. It was also called the War Between the States. It war between the southern and the northern states. Slavery was use for a lot of things it was use in the industrial revolution it was used for farming in the south. In the north were trade and import and export good. African’s were the most of the population of slaves. People thought slavery was a good thing. The masters would whip them if they didn’t do what they were told nor did a bad job at it. The master would tell the slaves they have it better the Jesus did when he was tortured. People would bring religion to everything. The president during the time was the great Abraham Lincoln. He was born in Kentucky. There was to teams the confederation and the union. The confederation was the south. The union was the north. The union had many people because there was draft and the slave were free in the north and would be able to join the army so they did in the north and the south. In New York there was a riot caused by the draft. Many people didn’t like that they could join that wasn’t part of the compromise. Every state in the north seceded and four states didn’t join the union or the confederation. One fact that is every surprising Kentucky never voted for President Lincoln for both terms. The greatest battle of the civil war was the battle of Bull Run. The most famous battle was the battle

This documentary by Ken Burn “The Civil War” was made television history, shattering all viewing documentations for a PBS series. In fact, forty million people saw it, more than the inhabitants of the Union and the Confederacy integrated. Newsweek commended it as "a remarkable television documentary." This documentary is the Civil War for a generation of Americans. So far lots of professional historians criticized it harshly for disregarding the parts of minorities, indicating a lack of women and of blacks all over, a ignore for the repercussion of the war, a conventional prominence on military history rather than civil history, and bumpy reportage of the military operations

CHARLESTON, North Carolina – What was supposedly a solemn bible study and prayer meeting, turned out to be a shooting fiasco when a young man started to pull the trigger, killing nine people.

The most recent mass shooting occurred on October 1, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon at Umpqua Community College. The shooter, Christopher Sean-Harper Mercer, shot and killed eight students and one teacher. He later killed himself with a bullet to his head. In June of 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina, Dylann Storm Roof murdered nine African American people at a historic church. Roof is facing nine murder charges. One of the more famous shootings, The Sandy Hook Elementary killing, began when Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty students and nine staff members. Before the shooting, Lanza killed his own mother, and after the shooting he killed himself. Most of the shooters killed themselves in order to detour jail time. These shootings are happening more often than they should, and they are getting deadlier and

I have chosen to write about one of the hottest topics here in middle Tennessee; the removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue on Interstate 65. Following the Murders of the church members in Charleston, South Carolina the Anti-Confederate movement has swept the Nation.

In 1861, a horrific war began. Nobody had any idea that this war would become the deadliest war in American history. It wasn’t a regular war, it was a civil war opposing the Union in the North and the Confederate States in the South.. The Civil War cost many people’s lives on the battlefield and beyond. In addition it cost an extreme amount of money for the nation which possibly could have been avoided if the war had turned to happen a little differently.