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1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

condemned The New York Times and The Guardian for liberal content and left-wing sympathies, and their war coverage has come under ...

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...

the Cold War. Another author, Professor Gerhard Rempel, approaches the issue from a different perspective in terms of discussin...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...

stimulating innovation and organizing research. However, Fukuyama also acknowledges that scientific progress does not directly exp...

realist notions concerning what the term "state" means, as "State identities and interests can be collectively transformed within ...

government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...

truly began to develop the powerfully negative attitudes about foreigners and anyone who was not of the Islamic people. He encoura...

and have fail to have a clear cut goal. Todays present situation in Iraq typifies this Bell Jar Effect. The goals were specific wh...

make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

military, pursuing a permanent war economy, and mentioned the possibility of retaliation at every opportunity (Coy, 2003). In his...

States power and security position? Many questions linger. Since the cold war has ended, many thought that it was the end of secu...

a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...

Iraq. Most turn to the Just War theory to prove their point, arguing that Vietnam was not a justified war, and neither is the war ...

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

(orange, red, sky-blue pink, whatever); the day Palast is discussing was an "orange alert" day, meaning it was "low threat" (Palas...

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

price was higher in real terms than it is today. It is also worth noting that the major peak seen towards the right of the chart b...