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The Trojan War

It should be noted that the legend of Paris begins with his birth when his sister, Cassandra, a woman of great power and vision, t...

The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

The Civil War

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

The Cold War: Causes and Ongoing Tensions

that agreement. The Conference at Yalta was the last meeting the United States, Great Britain and Russia would have under...

Civil War in Sierra Leone

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...

Ford: “Michael’s War”

This 3 page paper discusses the novel “Michael’s War,” about the IRA. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...

The 20s and 30s and Literature

out at this particular time were truly offering up new visions, realistic visions, and modern visions of life. In looking at some...

Slavery and the Civil War

at the time of the Civil War, as suggested by the fact that it only had one slave by 1840 (MacLeod, 2008). It is perhaps also impo...

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Historical Context

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

Holton/Forced Founders

describes the motivation of the landed-gentry, that is, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population, he also addresses why small f...

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

George Packer/Assassin’s Gate

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

War Poems of Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

Americans on the Homefront and the Impact of the Second World War

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

Conclusion of the Cold War and American Foreign Policy

disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...

US South and Reconstruction's Impact

to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...

The English Civil War and Puritanism and the American Colonies

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, the Civil War, and 'the American Dilemma'

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

Second World War Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

Nationalism in the United States and the War of 1812

newspaper, entitled Appeal to Reason. When the book was finally published in book form, it instigated a pure food movement, which ...

Pilots, Paratroopers and World War II

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

U.S. Democracy and Worldviews

of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...

1865 to 1945 American Economy

Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...

Questions on American History

This paper pertains to various issues in American history, which range from Washington to the War of 1812. Eight pages in length, ...

Equal Rights for African Americans

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the fight post Civil War for African American equal rights. This paper includes the formati...

Muckraking and Yellow Journalism

This paper is on "yellow journalism" and "muckraking," which are styles of journalism that were popular in the late nineteenth/ear...