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Essays 1921 - 1950
U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...
a man with shield and spear and lance and ultimately all the metal protection they could possess. The cavalry was incredibly succe...
United States had not invested the situation in Vietnam with rivalry with Communist powers, the tragedy might have been avoided. B...
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...
to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...
rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...
occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...
throughout the twentieth century played a role. In examining the differences between trade before and after each world war, there ...
drag cleanup. Howard Hughes racing plane was the fastest thing going in the U.S. during this time and one of the most important f...
"How can we ever hope to understand people so different from ourselves?" (Harris, 1989, p. 11). The answer, of course, is that t...
in which the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps were heavily engaged, although there was Army presence as well. Still, it is the Mari...
suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...
killed after an attempted assassination against himii. But it is not clear whether or not he did receive a fair trial and media di...
a huge Arab minority become a Jewish nation? (Miller, 2001). Miller says simply, "it could not" (Miller, 2001). The conflict that...
blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...
"just war" or a "war that had to be fought," given the aggression of both Germany and Japan, and the extermination of millions of ...
There is the risk of capture or immediate death or permanent injuries. And, what is only recently being published, there has been ...
notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...
means of murder, war and starvation (Kurth, 1995). Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen ...
and missile programs (Very well, 2003). In his 173-page report to the UN, chief inspector Hans Blix summarized a decade of avoida...
lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...
This was all before he had received any formal training in the arts other than his studies at the Art Students League in New York ...
- are the nations that have single-handedly caused Americas ideals to be brought into question. Moving forward into the twe...
obtained (Lee). There were places that the new Americans wanted desperately, places like California and while the government tried...
they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...
pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...
cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...