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In twelve pages this paper examines the Cold War, US policy of containment, the presidential campaign of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...
Art often imitates life, particularly in American media. This paper compares the media frenzy over the Clinton-Lewinsky affair wit...
"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...
progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...
starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...
of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...
settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...
was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...
soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...
elected to the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governors, Senators, and Congressmen. Black faces dominated the state legislatures...
predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...
achieved (McDougall, 1996). That goal was and is to establish a strong buffer state to protect the nations of Southeast Asia from ...
In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...
In an essay consisting of five pages the historical origins of sexism and racism in the Americas is traced through the Native Amer...
In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...
This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...
In six pages this paper discusses how American reporters covered the USS Maine bombing in Havana during the Spanish-American War o...
causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...
alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...
a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...
"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...
or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...
they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...
the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...
one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...
by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...