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

Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

leads "officials to play a never ending game of narcotic whack-a-mole" (Suddath). Close to half of the marijuana that is smuggle...

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

Whether or not Helen was the cause of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred...

Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...

more area than it already occupied. The result was a greater and greater polarization between Russia and the US. By the time Ken...

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

consider the real grievances that help terrorists recruit" (Dickey, 2006). It also means that the U.S. will be locked into a strug...

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

like ducks to water, so it comes as no surprise how word processing software - which has infused fun and entertainment with the ov...

the difference for many critically wounded soldiers (Warikoo, 2005). During the Vietnam conflict, the average time it took for a w...

the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

a man with shield and spear and lance and ultimately all the metal protection they could possess. The cavalry was incredibly succe...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

a very good living as a famous writer once he was able to leave behind this terrible episode in his life. Ma took his experiences...

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...