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

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

ugly, xenophobic resentment, its air of adolescent carnival, and its downright barbaric behavior...signified the sense of powerles...

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

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

rich contrasts. According to Stegner, the West is America. This is very profound geographically and culturally, because ...

Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

liberals and conservatives traditionally take with regard to black issues, that isnt the focus of the piece: West is really discu...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...

was California Congresswoman, Barbara Lee who received death threats after she had the unmitigated courage to cast the only vote a...

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

massive immigration in the early days when people came over from Europe. It began in the colonial times of course, but there was a...

was while he was stationed in Queensland that Morris wrote his first novel. It was titled "A Moon in My Pocket." "It was based on...

mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein, a man who now has finally been captured and is under American control. During the origin...

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...

"Americans" from European backgrounds would have been unable to imagine that one nation could be as vast as the United States even...

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...