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2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

C. Raymond Calhoun's Service During World War II

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

Identity and Politics in An African-Nicaraguan Community

A 6 page review of the book by Edmund Gordon. The focus is on the downfall of the Sandinista regime. A brief history of Nicaragu...

Howard Zinn and the Civil Rights Movement

This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...

Edmond Killina's Courthouse over White House Chicago and the 1960 Presidential Election

In eleven pages the controversial results of the 1960 presidential election are examined within the context of this book and provi...

Hawkings Perspective on Time

This paper provides a critical discussion of Stephen Hawkings book A Brief History of Time. The paper’s author discusses how Hawk...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

A Review of Atlantic Crossings by Author Daniel T. Rodgers

A 5 page analysis of the the book Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age by Daniel T. Rodgers. Transnational hi...

Donald Chidsey's The American Privateers

objectives. Though the historical context provided by Chidsey relates the idea that privateering was not a new concept, he does ...

Analyzing A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

Ideas and Economics

up embracing them. When it comes to this particular theory, the authors are definitely correct. History points out that id...

The Erie Canal

its aftermath had its share of problems. One difficulty was the flooding that would sometimes occur (Bernstein, 2005). This was mo...

Cultural Values in History

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

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...

King Philip II of Spain

the Spanish Inquisition were used to eliminate resistance to Philips policy of centralizing power under an absolute monarchy" (Phi...

The History of Mathematics

1988). Another method is called the Ionic system where letters of the alphabet were used as digits (Jones & Bedient, 1988). With t...

3 Reviews on Religious Books

a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...

Perspective on History

out, "different perspectives of what happened create different histories" (Wilson 1). The example of the voyages of Christopher C...

Amos, Chapter 5:4-25

bringing war. As laws of supply and demand illustrate, people, left to their own devices, will resort to actions that are almost e...

The Bible And The Koran - Christianity And Islam

on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...

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...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

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

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

The Censorship of Catcher in the Rye

A book with a long history of censorship is JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. This novel is discussed in depth along with the atte...

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow and McCarthyism

In five pages the climate of 1950s McCarthyism is considered within the context of Doctorow's book and discusses the subjectivism ...

Natasha's Dance/Orlando Figes

the Great gave the Russian upper class a split personality, divorcing them from all things Russian, by introducing European custom...