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History's 'Longest War'

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

Websites on Black History and Information Verification

Europe" (also by Rashidi) also identifies Moors as synonymous with black Africans and describes how Moorish soldiers cross over fr...

Unique U.S. Southern State of Louisiana

has been proactive in respect to opposing racism at every turn. Going back to an earlier time, in the all white groups which did...

The Poor Treatment of the American History

for the Native Americans and they did this without a thought to their natural human rights. American historical facts supports thi...

Issues in African History

peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing the...

Five Events That Speeded the U.S. on Her Way to Full World Involvement

U.S. interaction in world events has changed radically...

Kwakiutl Indians' Man Eating Bird 'Hokhokw' Mask

wings of the bird and during the ceremony, the dancers snap the beak closed with a loud clap (Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance Mask, 2002...

Bhopal, India's Union Carbide Plant and Ethics

removed a pressure gauge that was attached to the tank, stuck a hose in the hole and filled the tank with water (Dykes and Graham,...

An Overview Perspective of Quebec

leading traders of the north even before European contact (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 1995). Utilizing their strategic lo...

Truth and History

workers who smoked at their jobs, and no fire extinguishers (Triangle fire, 2006). At approximately 4.45 p.m. on March 25, 1911, ...

French Canadians at the End of the 19th Century

"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...

The Contribution to American History and Jewish American History by Henry Kissinger

a man of great power and a man who apparently worked within all sorts of cultures, working with China and then with Vietnam, earni...

Russian History's Inconsistencies and Dichotomies

Great," 2003). Peter the Great was somewhat obsessed with creating a Russia that was separate and apart from Asia as well. His St....

Marco Polo, Herodotus, and Their Histories

guilty of a second violence. They manned a ship of war, and sailed to Aea, a city of Colchis, on the river Phasis; from whence, af...

An Analysis of IBM

be known as IBM so many years later. The development of IBM is a patchwork, the Computing Scale Company of America is formed in 1...

1960s' Countercultures

completely rejected the "establishment" and decided that it was unwise to trust anyone over the age of thirty. This was clearly a ...

Mathematics' History and Critical Milestones

that of harmony and resonance in music. The fact that musical pitches correlate directly to numbers, they concluded that this rein...

The Possible or Probable Causal Factors for the First World War

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the possible or probable causal factors for the first World War. This ...

Abigail Adams' 'Remember the Ladies!'

can produce, she would begin her correspondence to her husband, "Dearest Friend," and sign them "Portia" (http://www.masshist.org/...

Continuing Power Crisis in California

amount of finger pointing going on in California as to who is responsible for this most recent energy shortage. Nonetheless, few ...

History Repeating Itself But Not Exactly

In a paper consisting of seven pages the ways in which history repeats itself especially in reference to war but throws in some su...

U.S. History's Watershed Event, the Civil War

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

'Fur Trade History as an Aspect of Native History' by Arthur J. Ray Summarized and Critiqued

(Ray, 2000). Upon initial investigation, Ray had found that most references to Indian involvement in the fur trade were of "shadow...

History of Chinese Art

is suspected that zhuan script came into existence due to the oracles significantly irregular patterns and overabundance of charac...

U.S. History and American Racism AMERICAN RACISM AND HISTORY

subconscious, if a man has intercourse with a women, he claims ownership of her. Likewise, in a larger world view, if the white ma...

Medieval History Bias

In a paper consisting of 8 page the influence of bias in Medieval history telling is considered along with the ways in which histo...

United Kingdom and Problem with Racism

This research paper considers the issue of racism within the cultural context of the United Kingdom and that nation's history. Thi...