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Secession as a Harbinger of Conflict

Civil War historians believe that a majority of Americans felt that forcing the South to remain in the Union when it felt it was n...

Reawakening and Art of the Harlem Renaissance

In five pages this paper argues that literature of the Harlem Renaissance was responsible for commencing an artistic, intellectual...

US Civil Rights Movement Success

In five pages this research paper discusses the 1960s' civil rights movement in America in an overview of its success and the chan...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Private and Public Lives of Lyndon Johnson

In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...

1955's Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

example, a 1964 article told of the fight by NAACP attorneys against the state of Virginia which was making payments to a school d...

Societal Structural Changes and the Influence of Malcolm X

In seven pages this paper discusses how Malcolm X exerted a profound influence regarding American social changes that occurred as ...

A Consideration of American History from 1865 until 1945

The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

Significant Events in American History between the late 1950s and 2002

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

Essays on American History

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

Discussion Questions on American History

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...

Social Movements and Their Impact

communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...

Madam C.J. Walker and Her Entrepreneurial Spirit

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Achievements

the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed and Dr. King was deemed president (1998). It was on that same day that the well...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

Analyzing Frederick Douglass's Speech 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'

task before him. He maintained that any apparent ease he displayed was merely an illusion. Because of this opening, I believe th...

Human Rights And The Use Of International Legal Institutions

upon this perpetual effort has been marred by those whose self-proposed mission is to make sure only certain people are privileged...

Examples of Victorian and English Literary Terms

(Arnold 2062). Expressionism : A movement that affected both painting and literature that attempted to exceed impressionism in "...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Egyptian Architecture and Art and Their Modern Art Influence

the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...

Tenth and Twentieth Century Variations in Language

spelling of swor (to swoor) and the change from "hire" to "hir." In addition, though of the usable participle "to" clarifies the ...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and the Theme of Love

with the arrival of Stellas sister, Blanche, a delusional middle-aged woman that despite pious airs is the female equivalent of St...

Multiagency Intervention To Reduce Gang Activities

of these facets of the state have emerged over hundreds of years of history (Rodriguez, 2005). These events have all contributed t...

The Health Care Continuum

Virtually everyone had access to health care in some form, either with the assistance of health insurance or through public health...

The Civil War and Contributions of African American Soldiers

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at black soldiers in the Civil War. The experiences of inequality endured by such soldi...