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In six pages post 1870 Europe is examined in a series of short essays with topics including Mussolini and Fascism, the foreign pol...

The writer describes the Guy Chapman book A Passionate Prodigality, which is an extremely emotional autobiographical account of th...

In this paper containing foru pages the effects of World War I as an influential defining moment in French history after 1919 are ...

for years. An understanding of both imperialisms definition as well as its indirect influences is essential to comprehending how...

independent from outside intervention. This establishment was political but it was greatly facilitated by geography. Indeed, the...

the two sides mounted (BMHS 2008). They finally erupted on March 5, 1770 (BMHS 2008). On that evening, "the Twenty-Ninth Regiment...

communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

of Guilford Courthouse took place on March 15, 1781 and some say that was the beginning of the end of what was known as the revolu...

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...

the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...

with the attack fading, the results of the administration continue to be with us. The hunt is still on for Osama bin Laden who, ac...

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

describes the motivation of the landed-gentry, that is, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population, he also addresses why small f...

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

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...

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...