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highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

indeed witnessed an attack inside our borders but that attack was limited both in its extent and in the continued threat that it r...

and many positive changes came about as a result. Those changes came to some at least represented a frontal assault on the fundam...

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

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...

consequences. It can lead to children repeating the actions of perceived heroes that may get them incarcerated. It also leads to e...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

For much of our history the US has regarded itself as being exceptional to one extent or another...

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

obtained (Lee). There were places that the new Americans wanted desperately, places like California and while the government tried...

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

this growing bandwagon is up for dispute, however. U.S. Labor Department statistics cited the loss of more than forty-six hundred...

the subjects soul in order answer the call of meaning so critical to the postmodern movement. The photography unarguably becomes ...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

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

that the world was round, following the voyage of Christopher Columbus to America, when seeking to find a route to India, a journe...

that language takes a back seat to other disciplines such as reading, science and mathematics. In reading Thomas Friedmans book Th...

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...

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

dictate perception and self, which represents "a choice, where we may intend our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, ...

what experts believe about the relationship between war and changes in the climate caused by global warming. The results of this l...

The war club was, and in fact is, a formidable weapon that is associated with the Iroquois in particular. Typically only two to t...

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

a chance that profits will increase their pay, and a guarantee that it will not decrease with the introduction of the new payment ...

ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...

While there are those who do not believe that the women want change, there is a growing movement that does suggest these women are...