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own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

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

the Revolutionary United Front-best known for cutting off the limbs of civilians who oppose it-fund themselves primarily through d...

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

like NPR and PBS are under attack as there is political pressure for them to be less critical ("Bill Moyers: "Big Media is Ravenou...

But it raises a lot of questions for the future. How did events alter the perception of Americans as the U.S. started its journey ...

to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

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

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...

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

United States had not invested the situation in Vietnam with rivalry with Communist powers, the tragedy might have been avoided. B...

throughout the twentieth century played a role. In examining the differences between trade before and after each world war, there ...

pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...

al, 2000, p. 648). It appears that Wilson saw American industry as a way to spread democracy; he told a group of salesmen that the...

to grant Cuba religious and civil rights, without removing Cuba from Spains control (Volume I of The Great Republic by the Master ...

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...

First World War; this, the mythology goes, explains why the Germans exhibited such striking superiority in the field in 1940. end ...

the U.S. military after Vietnam. The author notes that there is currently a volunteer force, which is quite different from the dr...

order to coordinate the Union war effort (Federal Bureaucracy) It was in the nineteenth century that Western democracies began ...

former U.S. Attorney General and is in Segment 9, illustrates how Kissinger, in relationship to the Iran/Iraq War claimed that the...

This was all before he had received any formal training in the arts other than his studies at the Art Students League in New York ...

- are the nations that have single-handedly caused Americas ideals to be brought into question. Moving forward into the twe...

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...

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...

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...