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Great Men of Industry Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Duke, and John D. Rockefeller

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution in America was shaped by these corporate kingpins....

Southern Baptist Church Burnings and Racism

In four pages this essay examines the KKK's role in burning Southern baptist churches in a consideration of how racism still exist...

DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Historical Context

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

Daily Life during the Seven Years War in North America

going in different directions. I suspect we brought much of the prejudice with us from England. But there is no denying that the "...

An 18th Century American

a great deal of fur trading to be had, although both French and English were involved in fur trading and dealings with the Natives...

Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

family would become highly educated as well as become involved civically. Following with that, then, he took a position as a...

A Review of Two Books on Poverty by Newman and Gans

And, about half of the working poor have no health benefits at all, they earn too much for Medicaid and they cannot possibly buy h...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

1914 to 1975 American Foreign Policy

In five page the post First and Second World War foreign policy of the United States is examined in a discussion of such topics as...

Nations and National Wealth Accumulation

In five pages this paper examines how North America, Europe, and Japan accumulated their national wealth in an historical consider...

America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-1990 by Walter LaFeber

or another, repeat itself. In his introduction the student can find information which alludes to this theory as LaFeber presents u...

History Repeating Itself But Not Exactly

In a paper consisting of seven pages the ways in which history repeats itself especially in reference to war but throws in some su...

Analyzing Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May

This 1988 text is analyzed in six pages and include the factors that fueled the enforcement of traditional and gender roles that r...

The Crises America Faced From 1865 until 1998

In this examination consisting of five pages the trials and tribulations America has faced due to war and other widespread problem...

America's Sexism and Racism History

In an essay consisting of five pages the historical origins of sexism and racism in the Americas is traced through the Native Amer...

Britain and America Up to the Revolution

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...

US Frontier Myth

In six pages this paper refers to Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America by Richard Slotkin in t...

U.S. and the 'War' on Drugs

two star-athletes fist called wide-spread attention to the problem during the mid-1980s. Since then, the government has reportedl...

Declining Values in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages this paper discusses how the novel portrays a post First World War I America and declining values. There are no oth...

Late 1940s' US and Soviet Union

In five pages this paper discusses how the Cold War emerged as a result of the late 1940s' conditions in the Soviet Union and Amer...

The War on Drugs in America and Whether or Not a Problem Truly Exists

while drugs are regarded today as a social problem that encompasses both objectivist and functionalist perspectives, it was not al...

American Life During the Second World War

alike as the U.S. sought to avenge the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Most Americans who waited out the war at home detested th...

The Cold War Years of 1945 to 1963 on the American Homefront

In a paper consisting of five pages the effects of the Cold War in America are considered and include the atomic bombing of Hirosh...

Reality of the 'Unwinnable' Vietnam War

bags of whatever soldiers werent forever-missing P.O.W.s. I have learned from the readings that the war, in retrospect, was a terr...

Latin America and Its Dark History

This paper considers the impact of the Cold War in Latin America and the atrocities committed in the countries of Argentina and El...

Post 1945 U.S. Imperialism in South America

an apparent option at the onset of the Cold War. At the same time, the United States also recognized that they had considerab...

The War In Iraq: Our Troops Should Not Leave Too Quickly

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

Fleming's View on America's Rise to Power

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 ...

Cold War History/Role of Geo-Political Motives

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