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1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

in time between release of the hammer and the subsequent explosion, which resulted in inaccuracy (Reid 167). After a number of exp...

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

In seven pages this paper examines the fall of Ft. Donelson, Tennessee in this consideration of the Civil War and how this along w...

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the reasons behind Martin Luther King's opposition to the war in Vietnam in a chrono...

Lafore. In this text, Lafore gives his interpretation as to the causes of World War I. In this tome, Lafore gives the reader a v...

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. Civil War in a consideration of the history of conscription or the draft and its decli...

This research report looks at the American Civil War and how knowledge is acquired through letters written during the time period....

of civil rights had something to do with the win. Boller puts it this way: "Truman...waged the kind of campaign, according to jour...

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

and the rights of privacy prevented a more proactive actions being taken to find these threats. This is a core element of the argu...

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...