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Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

Bennett: "Before the Mayflower"

North and South" (Bennett). Bennett pays a good deal of attention to detail, explaining the position of Blacks in ancient civili...

Progress Comes at a Price: American Civil War

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

Richard Orsi/Sunset Limited

been presented in dichotomous terms. On one side is the "selfish, greedy, corporate interests" and on the other, stand "the people...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

New York City Draft Riots of 1863

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

“Major Problems in California History”

effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

The Paraguyan War (The War of the Triple Alliance)

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

Evolution of the Nation

In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...

Theme of Slavery in 3 Literary Eras

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

American Red Cross Business

In five pages the American Red Cross is examined in an overview of its history, structure, funding, and future outlook. Twelve so...

African American Community Definition and Creation

thirty days, from seven ! I just hope that I am still here when we celebrate "Black History Quarter." This speech has been de...

Is the California Dream Over?

place he established were treated as little better than slaves, and lost their autonomy. So the cost of bringing the "white mans" ...

Tattoos in American Culture

circus freaks, bikers, and other marginal people" (Bell, 1999, p. 53). In addition, shows like "L.A. Ink" and "Miami Ink" have pop...

Miriam Haskell's Designs of American Costume Jewelry

This paper consisting of fourteen pages examines the pioneering American costume jewelry designs of Miriam Haskell between the yea...

U.S. Years of Progress Between 1837 and 1867

In seven pages this paper examines this period of profound change and progress in America as covered in American Passages A Histo...

1945 to 1952 Cold War America and Harry S. Truman

In five pages this period in American history under the leadership of President Harry S. Truman is discussed. Five sources are ci...

Cinema, Discrimination, and Prejudice

sociologist, Erving Goffman and Elaine Pagels, a historian of religion. The concept of otherness as a proponent of discriminator...

Native American Culture and the Disney Movie Pocahontas

This historical inaccuracies about Native American history and how they are relected in Disney's Pocahontas are examined in 6 page...

A Study of U.S. Immigration Law and Policies

This 15 page paper discusses U.S. immigration policies and laws in history and as they are today. The writer argues that American ...

History and Uses of Total Quality Management

In forty two pages this paper examines the history of TQM, the models of Juran, Baldrige, and Deming, and implementation experienc...

All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

to shock and dismay that such events could actually take place in the offices of the Nations President, and it would almost seem t...

Displays Featured in Washington D.C.'s Museum of Natural History

that it was the Vikings who actually first discovered America it became of special interest and as such ahs always intrigued this ...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

Viewing US History Differently

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...

Collective Bargaining and its History

the World (IWW) or the "Wobblies," but their revolutionary rhetoric almost assured that they would fail and alienate far too many...

African Americans and Substance Abuse

still come to black neighborhoods to buy drugs...Blacks were relegated to the lower rungs of the drug trade, and it exposed them o...