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Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

to shock and dismay that such events could actually take place in the offices of the Nations President, and it would almost seem t...

Bennett: "Before the Mayflower"

North and South" (Bennett). Bennett pays a good deal of attention to detail, explaining the position of Blacks in ancient civili...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

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

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

Donald Chidsey's The American Privateers

objectives. Though the historical context provided by Chidsey relates the idea that privateering was not a new concept, he does ...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

A Review of The Final Days by Authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

In this five paper paper the writer explores the captivating book by Woodward and Bernstein. The focus is the final days of the N...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

The Culture, History and Artistry of Black America

vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

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

AN ANALYSIS OF LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME

Americans like history, they dislike their history classes with a passion. Too much of what is considered "fact" in histor...

The Twelve Caesars/Suetonius

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

I Rode with Stonewall by Henry Kyd Douglas

the military critic... It is not my intention nor is it within the scope of this book to give a detailed report of the battle of B...

Comparing the Movie 'Elizabeth' with 'New Worlds, Lost Worlds The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603' by Brigden

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

Cuba of Fidel Castro

Castro's Cuba is examined in terms of the book and subsequent documentary about Castro's 1959 Cuban Revolution and discusses the f...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanual Leutze

damaged state, the work won a gold medal in Berlin and was "much celebrated in Europe."9 It was part of the permanent collection o...

Interpreting History with Ancient Literacy Texts

history of the region. The field of geology entered the realm of this historical research when researchers realized that they wer...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

Cinematic Interpretation of History

In terms of the way in which...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

The writer analyzes the book The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, which argues that American culture is deteriorating....

The Business World from a Literary Viewpoint

pictured as giving them a chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair...

American Liberty, 1820-1877, Overview of Issues

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

The Course of African Americans Through the History of the United States

injustice of it all is recognized today but at the time preceding the civil war there was little sympathy for the black men, women...

An American Genocide

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...