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The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...

History of Women in Aviation

record of 512 miles, from Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, New York (Bilstein, 2001; House, 2006). When America entered the First Wo...

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Historical Perspective

Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the president to the Anti-Slavery society, would first become acquainted (Adams, 2003). Stanton also ...

The Just War Theory

the United States and many representatives of Asia and South America. With this initial agreement international law was put into ...

United States Foreign Policy Through the Ages

America as a sovereign power following the American Revolutionary War, there have been many conflicting views on what constitutes ...

African American History as Reflected Through Art

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

Why Did Iraq Invade Iran in 1980?

forward the 1979 Iranian revolution as the initial event that would lead to the war. While there had been a great deal of hostilit...

Christianity's Changes Throughout History

teachings of the Old Testament. Christ, of course, was Jewish. At the same time, it does become clear that he added a great deal a...

Vietnam War's Historiography

In eight pages the historical documentation of the Vietnam War is examined. Fifteen sources are cited in the bibliography....

Overview of the Seventeenth Century Iroquois Fur Trade Wars

In six pages this paper examines the fur trade from an historical perspective in this overview of the Iroquois fur trade wars. Fo...

Armenian Genocide Accusations Against the Ottomans

In ten pages this paper examines this historical episode and the allegation that these were acts of genocide and not war casualtie...

Book II of the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...

Causes and Alliances Associated with the 30 Years War

In five pages this paper examines the alliances and causes of the 30 Years War in this historical overview. Three sources are cit...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and its Historical Accuracy

They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...

Perspectives on the Cold War

Cold War possessed many instigators from American paranoia to a lack of mutual cooperation to the outright compromise of foreign p...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...

The Roundhead Rebellion and England's Civil War of 1642 until 1651

In eleven pages England's Civil War is examined in this historical summary. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Stephen W. Sears' Landscape Turned Red

In five pages a review of this historical text that examines the Civil War Battle of Antietam is presented. There are no other so...

Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev's The Haunted Wood Soviet Espionage in America- the Stalin Era

In ten pages a review of this Cold War historical text is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Organ's Ancient History

In six pages this paper discusses the organ in an historical overview of how it was invented and continues on up to its New World ...

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

of restrained antagonism -- somewhat similar to the "Cold War" of the 1950s and 60s -- simmered just under the surface, threatenin...

Changing Views on Caring for the Mentally Ill

The treatment of the mentally ill has changed drastically since the asylums of the 19th century. This paper examines the historic...

Land and Blood Wars of Bolingbroke in William Shakespeare's Richard II

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Shakespeare employed the dual land and blood motifs in his historical play i...

20th Century's Most Historic Events

In seven pages this paper discusses important historical events during the 20th century including changes resulting from the Cold ...

New World, European Empires and Sea Power's Importance

Location is not everything. By listing a multitude of items, Mahan makes clear that the idea of capturing other countries by using...

The Family Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone

In five pages this paper analyzes this historical text in an assessment of how successful the author is in his 'attempt to chart a...

European Imperialism Argued in an Imaginary Dialogue

some people on this earth are better able to address certain situation, while others are meant to allow this to occur. European I...

Account of the 3rd Punic War

In five pages the 149 BC to 146 BC conflict between Carthage and Rome known as the 3rd Punic War is described in this historical o...

History and Impact of the Cold War

slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...