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Different Perspectives on Slavery

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War and after perspectives on slavery as viewed by John C. Calhoun, Frederick Douglass...

The Controversy of Slavery

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

Years Following Civil War

The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

The Missouri Theater Warfare at Wilson’s Creek

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

Battle of Algiers and Black Hawk Down

such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...

Suspicion and the Civil War

slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...

1861 Civil War First Battle of Bull Run

In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

New York City - Urban Planning

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...

Civil War Photography

If a specific shot did not exist, he would create it; if the story was not that intriguing, he would fabricate it. In short, Gard...

Crane and Bierce

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Case

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

Civil War Technology

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

The Civil War and Minority People

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

No Civil War: a Retrospective

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

Historians' Unending Perpetuation of the Memory of the Civil War

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

Our Fondness for the Civil War

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

Midnight Rising, Tony Horwitz

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

An Analysis of the Film, Sankosa, and The African-American Experience

This paper takes an Afro-Centric perspective in discussing the film, Sankosa, and its impact on modern-day African-Americans. Thi...

American Experience and Change in Irving, Calisher, and Hawthorne

In four pages the acceptance of change among individuals are compared in the characterizations of Calisher's Greenwitch, Hawthorne...

American Ethnic Communities and Religious Experience

In ten pages this paper discusses the ethnic communities in America and their religious experiences as presented in 'Go Tell It on...

Asian American Experience in Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen Number 2

This paper discusses how emotion is used by the author in the depiction of the Asian American experience in the novel. There are ...

Julia Alvarez, Italian Americans, and the Immigrant Experience

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares an interview with an Italian American with How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by ...

American Home and Workplace Experiences in Arlie Hochschild's Time Bind

In five pages this paper discusses changing workplace and home experiences for Americans as depicted in Time Bind by Arlie Hochsch...

The American Experience of a Polish Immigrant and His Business Selling Used Cars

In five pages this report exhibits reporting in a combination of neighborhood business and human interest in the story about small...

Native Americans and Different East and West European Experiences

In five pages the Eastern Woodlands and the West cultures of Native Americans are examined in terms of the cultural experiences th...

American Jewish Experience by Jonathan D. Sarna

In five pages this paper examines American Jewry's characteristics within the context of this anthology compiled by Jonathan D. Sa...

American Experience in the Poems of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...

Philosophies Applied to the Concept of the American Experience

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosophies that can be applied to the American Experience are examined in terms of grea...

United States and the Asian American Experience

it can be said, the Asian culture has pervaded and begun to saturate into the fabric of American culture and society. This may mea...