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the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

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

"color line" as the principal problem of the twentieth century, but rather felt that the principal problems of black Americans wer...

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

a kind of moral idealism to the productive realism reflected in authors ranging from Mark Twain to Stowe herself (The Rise of Real...

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

gender identities not only to themselves but also for society (Samuels 104). In The Last of the Mohicans, womens roles had evolve...

won freedom from religious oppression. Christie suggests that the bottom line and that which caused many of the compoundin...

initial marketing and attention paid to the system there was an impression given of a forwards looking company which was investing...

effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

War, American colonists including George Washington, pondered how to access the lush soil of the West (Albion and Pope 83). In 17...

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...

carbon dating placed him at a time when the land barrier would have still been accessible. "Its incredible whats in the ice," sa...

This paper considers the early American workplace and its workers in an overview of its progress in seven pages. There are no sou...

PG), yet they yearned for something much more intimate, something that just did not exist in their homeland. What they found, how...

also serve to illuminate a lost way of living. In spite of al the missing history, for the last twenty-five years scholars have ...

of Guilford Courthouse took place on March 15, 1781 and some say that was the beginning of the end of what was known as the revolu...

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

to hear, these discourses are important and add to American historical knowledge. Jacobs, in Life of a Slave Girl of course incor...

the rights to rid themselves of the negative liberty. But, after the Civil War the approach became one that focused on protection ...

After the British left the shores of America, the young country was faced with how to keep their economy afloat. Credit became one...

quoted poem "The New Colossus" as well as inscribed on the base of the Statute of Liberty, American immigration policy in the earl...

Sometimes, however, they were simply viewed as a criminal element or as a political radical (Hay, 2001). Consequently, American i...

to travelers. Rationale The long period of economic expansion enjoyed in the US throughout most of the decade of the 1990s ...