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American Prohibition and the Economic Boom of the 1920s

At the turn of the century, dry legislatures had been favoring womens suffrage and also allowed popular referenda in respect to wh...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

US Literary Renaissance of the 1940s and 1950s South

This paper examines the writing renaissance that took place in the American South during the 1930s and 1940s in five pages. Five ...

Gulf War Strategy

1990). The Gulf War was no exception (1990). The Bush administration and the U.N. Security Council both stated their objectives as...

Theodore Roosevelt's Early Life and the Rough Riders

area in 1649 (The Archives: Theodore Roosevelt, 2002). His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia native who supported th...

U.S. Economy During the 1970s

utilization of monetary policy as implicit (1999). Authors suggest that monetary policy is in fact most responsible for what has ...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

Second World War and Japanese Internment in the US

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

The Royal Family Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

Great Depression Entertainment

The radio was an important entertainment form. Television, in contrast, was just beginning to make its entry into the American ho...

Modern Nursing Evolution in the United States

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

U.S. Civil Liberties, the 'Red' Scare, and the Cold War

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

1998 to 2002 Economy of the United States

overall balance of payments did not change much in 2003Q2 (Weinberg, 2003). It remained at $138.7 billion in the second quarter (W...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Did Slavery and Slave Expansion Dominate the U.S. Presidency from 1830 to 1865?

slavery expand westward, which began to challenge "the territorial limits of slavery, the limits of federal power, and the limits ...

Native Americans and Government Policies and Treaties Between 1830 and 1890

such as European law. They were at an added disadvantage in that up until the arrival of the Europeans to this continent, Native ...

A World War II Submarines History

crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...

Varying Definitions of the Civil War

the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...

Philip Guston

Guston, painting, by its very nature is "impure...We are image-makers and image-ridden" ("Books and Arts" 109). Analyses of 5 wor...

Relying Upon Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko as a Historical Source

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

The Revolutions in Spanish America and Their Effect on Spain

early 19th centuries, Spain was perhaps the most powerful nation on earth. It has established colonies in the New World, and treas...

1895 Farmer's View of Manifest Destiny

well as the rising tension of the competitive race between the teams from the East and the West" (Rochman, 1998, p. 908). By the ...

Overview of Teen Pregnancies and Impact Upon Families

group, as expected, there are quite a bit of pregnancies for the teenagers. This is true despite the fact that there is a decline ...

Early Twentieth Century Gender Perceptions

observers of Indian culture more, the implications of homosexuality inherent in the berdache tradition or the idea that individual...

Cultural Ideals and Plays of Chikamatsu

giri. Osan says, "I could see that you were drifting towards suicide. I felt so unhappy that I wrote a letter, begging her as one ...

U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...