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The Vietnam War and the Attitudes That Drove the Conflict

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

Immoral Actions and Henry Kissinger

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

The Culture and Operation of the Special Court in Sierra Leone

The Sierra Leone Special Court is an Ad Hoc court set up to hear the cases of those most responsible the atrocities in the Sierra ...

The Impacts of World War I and World War II on American Society

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

Questions on American History and Politics

elected to the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governors, Senators, and Congressmen. Black faces dominated the state legislatures...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

The Persian Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

America's Sexism and Racism History

In an essay consisting of five pages the historical origins of sexism and racism in the Americas is traced through the Native Amer...

Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn on the Revolutionary War

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

Vietnam and American Politics During the Turning Point of 1968

achieved (McDougall, 1996). That goal was and is to establish a strong buffer state to protect the nations of Southeast Asia from ...

Mexican American War/Lincoln's Slavery Position

soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

American Life Prior to the First World War and Following the Second World War

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...

USS Maine Bombing in 1989 and the Reactions by American Newspapers

In six pages this paper discusses how American reporters covered the USS Maine bombing in Havana during the Spanish-American War o...

Client Wars And Surrogate Armies

was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...

First World War to the Vietnam War: The Evolution of American Policy

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

Revolutionary War's Radicalism

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

Review of Freedom Road by Howard Fast

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

Homegrown Terrorists: The South During Reconstruction

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

The Missouri Theater Warfare at Wilson’s Creek

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

Midnight Rising, Tony Horwitz

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

Years Following Civil War

The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

The Controversy of Slavery

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

Causes of the Civil War and the Events That Characterized This Conflict

In fact, the movement was headquartered in Boston. This city was one that contained support for the freedom of slaves. The slave...