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New York City Draft Riots of 1863

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

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

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

Industrialism: Impact Upon The United States Population

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

Bennett: "Before the Mayflower"

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

Progress Comes at a Price: American Civil War

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

Richard Orsi/Sunset Limited

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

A Case Study of American Greeting Cards

In a paper consisting of twelve pages a corporate history, problems, portfolio, and analysis of finances, strategies, and organiza...

US Socioeconomic Conditions Associated with the Great Depression

the brokers jumping off of building ledges in the films, but the reality is not far removed from this, it was only a few weeks bef...

Rebellion of Daniel Shays

A biography of Daniel Shays is presented in six pages along with a description of his rebellion, its accomplishments, and where it...

How Cinema is Dominated by America

both elements are evident to greater and lesser degrees in each and every film that is produced in America and Europe film (Kerri...

Latin America, Capitalism, and Class

In five pages Latin American capitalism is examined in terms of history and its social relation to class. Seven sources are cited...

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

In five pages this report examines the history of the massacre at Wounded Knee and how the author increases reader awareness of is...

Future Lessons in the Past Story of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

since the first European stepped foot on Native soil. Since its "discovery", most often credited to Columbus in 1492, to the curr...

African Americans and Substance Abuse

still come to black neighborhoods to buy drugs...Blacks were relegated to the lower rungs of the drug trade, and it exposed them o...

Collective Bargaining and its History

the World (IWW) or the "Wobblies," but their revolutionary rhetoric almost assured that they would fail and alienate far too many...

Reconstruction to the Populist Party in U.S. History

Lincoln developed a reasonable Reconstruction plan to stitch the nation back together again. But again, remember we are talking a...

African American Community Definition and Creation

thirty days, from seven ! I just hope that I am still here when we celebrate "Black History Quarter." This speech has been de...

Overview of New Zealand History, Culture, Politics, and Geography

In eight pages the post 1984 changes affecting New Zealand are considered in this overview that includes such topics as history, g...

A History of Racial Discrimination in Portland, Oregon

This paper provides a brief history of legislation and other issues pertinent to race relations in this American city, dating back...

Society and American Pop Art

In five pages this paper examines pop art as featured at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art in terms of history and th...

1820s and 1840s Age of the Common Man

to make their own destinies -- to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear they would never be able...

La Cosa Nostra & The Cali Cartel

province, " as well as eleven affluent landowners (FBI, 2008). He was taken into federal custody in New Orleans in 1881 and sent b...

Reconstruction, Progressive, and New Deal Eras and Government's Role

also addresses some of the history of social work. Role of Government in Reconstruction, Progressive, New Deal The years followi...

The African American Student Population and Urban Educational Policy

this country. The Problem With African American Education in America First, it is important to recognize that in fact th...

Natural Function of Performance Appraisals

survival of the species, but the females of many species look with disdain on the losers of battle between the males. These femal...

Native American Algonquin Tribe

variety of dialects (1999). Algonquian-speaking peoples have dominated most of the northeastern North America (1999). Also confus...

5 Questions on the Revolutionary War Answered

country in regards to what direction the nation should take. "[C]onstitutional issues lay at the bottom of the dispute. Andrews, f...

Virgin Mary's Visions and Significance

image they could understand and comprehend. They would envision her in clothing they comprehended and related to, images of heaven...

The US and AIDS

2005). At this time it was a very frightening disease or virus or condition because not enough was known about the disease: "It is...

The North American Union

the development of programs" (Sanchez, 2007) and they also gave more instructions to their committees (Sanchez, 2007). At that ti...