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Reconstruction and the Civil War

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

2 Constitutional Issues Involving the George W. Bush Administration

readily surmise that the campaign approaches might also differ from those of past elections. "The framers of the Constitution con...

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...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

'Golden Age' of the Cold War Era

served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...

Rosie the Riveter and Second World War Working Women

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

IHL and the Gulf War

potential harm that may be suffered by those not directly involved must also be considered when planning action (HRW, 2002). Th...

Enduring Legacy of Freedom

against the terrorism in their own nation. The United States with its superpower status sits in the position of setting many of th...

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara and the Depiction of Civil War Generals Longstreet and Lee

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

Two Canadian Historical Writings Compared

In Peter MacLeods (University of Ottawa) 1996 article "Catholicism, Alliances and Amerindian Evangelists during the Seven Years Wa...

American Social Violence, Racism, Sexism, the Vietnam War, and Stanley Kubrick's Film Full Metal Jacket

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

Porter's Diamond of National Advantage and Japan's Development

supporting industries and last the firm strategy and rivalry (Porter, 1999, Weller, 1999). Just as with any model the accuracy wil...

1945 to 1970 Consumer Culture and Women

Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...

An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

Second World War, Nazism, and Fascism

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

Personal Political Perspectives

original American colonies. In that case a federal system would undoubtedly be best and should be patterned after United States,...

Florence Nightingale's Work

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

Saddam Hussein and the Vendetta of George W. Bush

In five pages this paper discusses how the terrorism war is being fought as a way of satisfying the personal agenda of U.S. Presid...

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. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara

eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...

Vietnam War and the Differing Policies and Opinions of George Ball and Robert S. McNamara

together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...

Civil War Fighting and the Need of Manpower

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

Case Study on the Cola Wars Between Coke and Pepsi

these manufactures have a relatively low requirement for investment, a top cost of $50 million for a concentrate plant will servic...

UK Post World War II Comprehensive Education Development

on the basic skills, such as numeracy, reading and writing (University of Derby, 2002). Most students left the school at about age...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,' Its Inaccuracies, and the Real Paul Revere

slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...

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 ...