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This research/essay paper focuses on Philip Scranton, renowned historian and professor who is associated with Rutgers University. ...

This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

This essay is on "The Train from Hate" by John Hope Franklin, which is an autobiographical account of an childhood incident that a...

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

slavery expand westward, which began to challenge "the territorial limits of slavery, the limits of federal power, and the limits ...

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

that Thucydides, along with several other original historians "simply transferred what was passing in the world around them, to th...

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...

The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...

record (AHA, 2007). Historians acknowledge that they have a debt to the past to do "justice" to the views of that era and presen...

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Investigating this question, Pestana offers excerpts from the works of four historians who have contrasting opinions. These four h...

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

the holy apostles; ... 2. to relate the many important events that are said to have occurred in the history of the church; 3. "to ...

flogged rather than killed (Acts 5:27-42). It is through the writings of early historians like Eusebius of Cesarea and Origen that...

"factory" typically conjures in the mind of the modern reader has actually very little to do with what factories, as a whole, were...

After the Civil War, slavery was over, though of course prejudice against African-Americans remains to this day. The historical i...

Christian Gottlob Neefe, the Bonn court organized, mentored him, "encouraging both his playing and his composing" (Johnson, 2005)....

women differently than the culture dictated? Did He treat them differently than He treated other people? Did Jesus behaviors place...

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...