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War and Ernest Hemingway

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

US Civil War's Purpose

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

A Civil War Personal Account

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

A Civil War History of Devil's Den Action

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

1st Example of Modern Warfare, the U.S. Civil War

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

Civil Rights Movement and Exodus Theme

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

1865 to 1920 America and its Emergence on the World Stage

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

Reconstruction, Progressivism, Labor Unions and Women’s Suffrage

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

Reconstruction, Progressivism, Labor Unions and Women’s Suffrage

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

History of U.S. Army Aviation

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

Slave Trade Economics and History

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

War in the Nineteenth Century

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

The Civil War and Black Americans Who Fought

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

Vietnam and the Stance of Martin Luther King Jr.

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the reasons behind Martin Luther King's opposition to the war in Vietnam in a chrono...

The Impact of the Two World Wars on the U.S. Economy, Race, Gender, and Civil Liberties Issues

Lafore. In this text, Lafore gives his interpretation as to the causes of World War I. In this tome, Lafore gives the reader a v...

Letters of the Civil War

This research report looks at the American Civil War and how knowledge is acquired through letters written during the time period....

U.S. Civil War and Conscription

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. Civil War in a consideration of the history of conscription or the draft and its decli...

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...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

February 13 through 16 1862 Fall of Ft. Donelson During the Civil War

In seven pages this paper examines the fall of Ft. Donelson, Tennessee in this consideration of the Civil War and how this along w...

One Method for Quality Improvement

Dr. W. Edwards Deming was a statistician and was asked to help the Japanese government with their post-war census. While there, he...

North and South Perspectives on the Battle of Shiloh

or depicted in the movies or reenactments. The history books generally favor the victor in the battle, not the conquered and defea...

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

The Importance of the Attack on the Tuscarora Indians

things gone differently, todays world might have been different too. Some have speculated that there is a definitive turning point...

Zuckerman's Playing a Real Bad Hand (Article Summary and Review)

Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...

China's Modernity and the 'Crucible' of Shanghai

other areas of Shanghai are marked Chinese" (Goodman, 2004). Researchers have discovered that studying Shanghai in particular "sh...

Elections Which Have Made History

capturing a majority of the popular vote in 15 northern and western states" (Schofield, Miller & Martin, 2002). There were three ...

A Cycle of Abuse

all her fault. Early in their marriage she became pregnant, and he was extremely unhappy about the child. He wanted to become esta...