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Latin America's Native Civilizations

In four pages preColumbian Latin American history is examines in a consideration of Mayan and Aztec, tribes including Toltec and O...

Social Evolution, Political Force, and Latin America

In five pages this paper examines 400 years of Latin American history in order to discuss how communities were affected by politic...

Varying Definitions of the Civil War

the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...

American Historian Richard Hofstadter

In nine pages this paper examines Anti Intellectualism in the United States and Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter in a considera...

Early 20th Century Historical Contributions of the Average Female

significant impact from the colonial period forward, and which have actually altered the course of American history, particularly ...

The Great Depression History Firsthand by Dennis Nishi Summary and Review of Dennis Nishi's “The Great Depression (History Firsthand)”

the stock market crash of October 1929 that blindsided everyone even though there had been disturbing warning signs surfacing week...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

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...

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...

1815 to 1860 U.S. Reform Movements

insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...

Donald Chidsey's The American Privateers

objectives. Though the historical context provided by Chidsey relates the idea that privateering was not a new concept, he does ...

The Kennedy Conspiracies

alone. We remember Kennedy in two very different lights, first as a great man, a great politician who had the interest of t...

Teddy Roosevelt's Autobiography

belief in a strong and efficient National Government and Jeffersonian in their belief in the people as the ultimate authority, and...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

“The American Indians”: A Critique of the Web Site

cell phone. There are numerous other hints, however, that "The American Indians" web site is more of a commercial site than a tru...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

The Great Depression

causes people to sell off more stock than they ordinarily would have. It also seems to be true that "the negative effect of stock ...

"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

AN ANALYSIS OF LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME

Americans like history, they dislike their history classes with a passion. Too much of what is considered "fact" in histor...

Boston Massacre and the Massacre at Kent State University

113 guardsmen to fire tear-gas in order to disperse the crowd (1996). By that time, the crowd was equivalent to about one thousan...

How to Reduce Infighting in the Bicameral Political System: A Modest Proposal

at the bicameral system that dominates American politics. Conventional wisdom has held that there are truly only two political par...

Salem Witch Trials

The Witch Trials in the United States "When the Puritans set up their small community in Massachusetts in 1630, they had no...

1825-1860 - A Rip Van Winkle Overview

slumber. They might respond to Van Winkles queries thusly. Slave: "While slavery obviously still exists throughout the southern U...

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...

Davy Crockett's Frontier Life

married to Polly Finley, and as he would later wryly comment, he had proven himself "better at increasing my family than my fortun...

Historical and Legal Perspectives on Federal and State Citizen Equality in America

The concept of equality and how it has been reflected legally throughout American history is the focus of this sixteen page paper....

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...

A Review of The Final Days by Authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

In this five paper paper the writer explores the captivating book by Woodward and Bernstein. The focus is the final days of the N...

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...