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Essays 1951 - 1980

Historical Value of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In three pages this essay considers the historical value of this text in terms of its firsthand descriptions of slave oppression. ...

No Social Perfection in Utopia by Sir Thomas More

The utopians of the 16th century were fairly relaxed on the matter of beliefs, though their moral codes seem to come from the Bibl...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...

History and Trends of Canadian Immigration of Italians

Background to Italian Immigration Historically, Italians had been coming to Canada for literally hundreds of years as John Cabot ...

Historical Validity of Tariq Ali's Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree

or Reconquista. The Reconquista culminated in the taking and sacking of Granada. This would lead into the Spanish Inquisition. W...

Historical Importance of William Shakespeare's Works

book (Rubinstein 28). He apparently married Anne Hathaway in 1582, and their surviving children, both girls, were illiterate (Rub...

An Analysis of Adam and Eve

powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...

Pilgrim Separatists and William Bradford

officials such as bishops and archbishops" (Carroll and Noble, 30). Nor was there just one group of dissenters. The Presbyterians...

Colonial America's Military Training

This paper consists of eight pages and examines Colonial America's approaches to military training in a historical overview. Five...

Public Space Function of the American Street

In five pages this paper discusses the evolving function of the American street as a public space and considers how it may not aga...

America's Sexism and Racism History

In an essay consisting of five pages the historical origins of sexism and racism in the Americas is traced through the Native Amer...

A Different Window by Robert Takaki

In five pages this paper discusses the historical conflicts featured in Robert Takaki's A Different Window. There are no other so...

Go West The Migration to the State of California

10 pages and 4 sources. This paper provides an overview of the events and factors that led to the migration to California. This ...

Chapter Overview of Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

In nineteen pages a review of each chapter featured in this historical text by Stephen Ambrose is provided. There are no other so...

Montclair, New Jersey History

This research paper consists of seven pages and presents a historical oveview of Montclair that starts with the precolonial time p...

Cultural Assumptions and Historical Sources

In five pages this research paper examines cultural assumptions and how they influence historical sources pertaining to slave trad...

Past and Present Waterloo Village, NJ

and negotiated the return of all prisoners as well as offering 1,600 pounds to purchase any land they owned in the colony as well ...

U.S. Constitution and Historical Controversy

In five pages the historical controversy considering the U.S. Constitution ratification and the debate between Anti Federalists an...

Erie Canal's History

the 650 mile expedition by traveling up the Kanawha . . ." (Bourne, 14). Washington saw this route to the Great Lakes as advanta...

A Neutral Look at the Battle at Little Big Horn

This six page report analyzes this historical masacre from an objective perspective. The author carefully interweaves the perspec...

Manifest Destiny and Chief Joseph

In thirty eight pages this research paper examines Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph in an historical assessment that analyzes the imp...

Weapons and Their History

in time between release of the hammer and the subsequent explosion, which resulted in inaccuracy (Reid 167). After a number of exp...

History of America's Transcontinental Railroad

In six pages this report discusses the travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific that resulted from the Transcontinental Railroad in...

Brief Nursing History

Peplau addressed the inherent relationship between nursing and counseling, contending that nurses uphold the important responsibil...

US Women's Suffrage and its History

and became the first woman in America to preside over a meeting of both men and women. Afterward, the New York State Legislature p...

Three Discussion Questions from Week Two

therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support tho...

US History and the West's Role

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

Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare and the Relationship Between Prince Hal and King Henry

with the help of Worcester, Northumberland and Hotspur, (the Percy family) deposed and murdered King Richard. Bolingbroke is now K...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...

KKK's History

blacks" (Trelease 625). Another author indicates similar perspectives stating, "White superiority was the philosophy of the Klan, ...