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PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

baby-boomers from their beginning, at wars end, to the end of the sixties" (Owram xii). His then states that his discussion also i...

United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...

as necessary and correct (Crockatt, 1995). However, the "second wave" of historians, writing perhaps 20 years later, and informed ...

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

and parcel of continuing education. In grade school, students learn about history and geography, but it is only when they grow up ...

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

who and what one was (Lee, 1995). In that, he wasnt unique. Thousands of Vietnam veterans experienced it, and dozens of writers ha...

some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...

Japanese occupation wanted the end of colonial rule which in some cases wasnt met and started various "wars of national liberation...

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

acquire these riches due to the efforts of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, which facilitates the creation of Lisbon as Europes ...