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forced removal became known as "The Trail of Tears", an event that proved once and for all that no matter what the Cherokee or oth...

63). Through incremental decrees, the Meiji government moved toward creating a highly centralized, bureaucratic government. Duri...

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

leading up to it. Heideggers Italian opera company had failed in 1717 due to its inability to control costs and the failur...

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

migration of people to urban centers and increasing support for westward expansion. As many began to support the spread of aboli...

and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...

separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted by Du Bois 24). This "c...

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

required that all Chinese immigrants had to pay a "head tax," that is a tax that was imposed simply for entering the country. The ...

548). As this suggests, commentary written by Dutch writers predate the observations penned by Yu. For example, Reverend Georgiu...

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

that if mental illness was caused by a weakened or weakening of the mind, then the stable environment and care that was provided i...

writer for "The New Yorker", David Grann becomes caught up in the legendary tale of renowned British explorer Colonel Percy Harris...

focusing on the positive aspects of cigarettes, tobacco companies would encourage smoking and they would often target certain grou...

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

early 19th centuries, Spain was perhaps the most powerful nation on earth. It has established colonies in the New World, and treas...

(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

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

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of editorial cartoons that were published during the late nineteenth and early...

This essay refers to narratives by Raoul Dahl and William Carlos Williams that relate pediatric examination experience in the earl...

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

This book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...

This research paper presents a brief overview of the history of New York gangs, beginning in the early nineteenth century, discuss...

In five pages this text on early nineteenth century Mexican life is discussed within the context of what it must have been like fo...