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General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

1991). In addition to a life-long love of engineering, Witkin appears to have had a great concern for justice and a passion for f...

gender, class and historical events, and few women were given the opportunity to travel ... Traveling, for women, has been forever...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...

During this time we see the stock value become more erratic and fall, and with earnings falling there had to be the suspension of ...

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...