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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...

vision of the universe. From the early Reservoir Dogs to the stylish Pulp Fiction, Tarantino has challenged both viewers and the ...

America as a sovereign power following the American Revolutionary War, there have been many conflicting views on what constitutes ...

to believe that the American character is typified by a na?ve sense of exceptionalism, we, as a culture, continue to be mired in q...

Buchanan argues that Churchill did not really have to go to war and he and Chamberlain made some serious mistakes. He indicates th...

The writer explores the reasons that China became involved in the Korean War. There are six sources listed in the bibliography of ...

as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...

The writer argues that the Korean War actually had more to do with China than with Korea itself. There are five sources listed in ...

Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...

enquired anxiously whether I had courage, or firmness to remain in the Presidents house until his return, on the morrow, or succee...

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

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

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

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

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

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

would join as slave states and those north of it would come in as free states (Faragher et al, 2000). But there was still no defin...

things although it requires approval by both houses to enact any law. The Senate ratifies treaties and must approve any appointmen...

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

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...

This paper questions whether our current war on terrorism is valid. To answer the question the author examines the history of ter...