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at the bicameral system that dominates American politics. Conventional wisdom has held that there are truly only two political par...

The Witch Trials in the United States "When the Puritans set up their small community in Massachusetts in 1630, they had no...

become the commander of the Rough Riders. President McKinley asked for men to become volunteers, with Roosevelt one of the...

named Colonel Hourai Boum?di?ne told the Algerian people that it was the armys mission to defend the Algerian culture while at the...

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

jobs in his career, he was the director of federal contract compliance during the Carter Administration (Knowledge@Wharton, 2006)....

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

wooden frames and written on with a stylus, as used in Roman antiquity, were used in the middle ages by students, accountants and ...

the Old World origins of their culture - but they were attracted to the nature of the New World" (Introduction to the History of G...

simple event people can become confused about a truth based on the fact that everyones "vantage point" or perspective is different...

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...

for an individual to have done something of importance in their life. It is not always important that they be recognized. It see...

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

been presented in dichotomous terms. On one side is the "selfish, greedy, corporate interests" and on the other, stand "the people...

of her toes), wearing the bell-shaped white tutu that is, for many, the enduring image of the ballet dancer" (Webb, 2006; 41). ...

who effectively directed the masses. According to Perry M. Rogers, author of Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Source...

North and South" (Bennett). Bennett pays a good deal of attention to detail, explaining the position of Blacks in ancient civili...

It was during this year that "John Dougherty, an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth, Ks, recommended that a military post be establi...

causes people to sell off more stock than they ordinarily would have. It also seems to be true that "the negative effect of stock ...

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

history of the escalator, the earlier patent was used in many places. The problem it seems was that there was not the use of elect...

served in the Revolutionary War and employed them in civil service positions in the government (Highlights in the History of Publi...

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...