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"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Federal Bureaucracy

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

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...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

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

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" ...

“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...

Salem Witch Trials

The Witch Trials in the United States "When the Puritans set up their small community in Massachusetts in 1630, they had no...

The Plague and Its Effects on European Society

course, plague was known so the deaths were not completely unexpected, but the disease interrupted lives, and no one knew who woul...

19th Century American History

slavery, a trend which leads towards the development of Sectionalism in the Southern states. 1830s: Southern states begin to seek ...

How to Reduce Infighting in the Bicameral Political System: A Modest Proposal

at the bicameral system that dominates American politics. Conventional wisdom has held that there are truly only two political par...

From the Invention of the Automobile to the Kent State Massacre

1. How did the mass production of the automobile affect...

AN ANALYSIS OF LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME

Americans like history, they dislike their history classes with a passion. Too much of what is considered "fact" in histor...

African American History as Reflected Through Art

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

American Imperialism and its Roots in the Republican - Federalist Debates

time was that he "magnified the authority of the Court" to be able to interpret the constitutionality of actions and rule upon it ...

1825-1860 - A Rip Van Winkle Overview

slumber. They might respond to Van Winkles queries thusly. Slave: "While slavery obviously still exists throughout the southern U...

Boy Scouts of America, Its History

This research paper describes the history of the Boy Scout of American (BSA). Five pages in length, four sources are cited. ...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

African American Contributions to Science, Politics, and Mathematics

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at important African American figures in the history of science, math, and politics. W.E...

African Americans: History, Culture, Families, Beliefs and Religion

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

ECONOMICS, SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM COSTS

cost in the short term" versus "production and cost in the long term." The short-term, also know as the short-run, is the period o...

American History

for an individual to have done something of importance in their life. It is not always important that they be recognized. It see...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

Varying Definitions of the Civil War

the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...

Battle of San Juan

become the commander of the Rough Riders. President McKinley asked for men to become volunteers, with Roosevelt one of the...

A Short Story

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

Blood Passion by Scott Martelle

This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...

American Nursing Shortage

This research paper presents a comprehensive discussion of the American nursing shortage. A brief history of the shortage is prese...