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The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
enough tinder on the firebox to light a conflagration. During the early days of the war, American policy was focused on co...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...
After the British left the shores of America, the young country was faced with how to keep their economy afloat. Credit became one...
he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...
the limited liberty that they offered was not sufficient to the majority of Arabs in Algeria (Gildea 17). Albert Camus wrote, in...
kind of holistic pattern, into which all experiences must be forced to fit....
the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...
U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...
to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...
for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...
the difference for many critically wounded soldiers (Warikoo, 2005). During the Vietnam conflict, the average time it took for a w...
a man with shield and spear and lance and ultimately all the metal protection they could possess. The cavalry was incredibly succe...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...
they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...
was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...
obtained (Lee). There were places that the new Americans wanted desperately, places like California and while the government tried...
policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
"How can we ever hope to understand people so different from ourselves?" (Harris, 1989, p. 11). The answer, of course, is that t...
or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...