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The Nineteenth Century Ghost Dance Era

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

American Express Diversity Plan

jobs in his career, he was the director of federal contract compliance during the Carter Administration (Knowledge@Wharton, 2006)....

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

La Cosa Nostra & The Cali Cartel

province, " as well as eleven affluent landowners (FBI, 2008). He was taken into federal custody in New Orleans in 1881 and sent b...

Barack Obama's Speech On March 18, 2008: Race

represents every aspect of black heritage. Religion embodies the black way of life from the very first moment slavery came into e...

The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

major transportation route of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In the years preceding the Louisiana Purchase the Spanish ...

The Great Depression

causes people to sell off more stock than they ordinarily would have. It also seems to be true that "the negative effect of stock ...

"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

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 American Novel

slavery and freedom. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and he simply wants to help out his friend, the runaway slave. But, ...

“The American Indians”: A Critique of the Web Site

cell phone. There are numerous other hints, however, that "The American Indians" web site is more of a commercial site than a tru...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Harley Davidson; SWOT Analysis

the door (Harley Davidson, 2007). These humble beginning with the bike that had a 3-1/8 inch bore and a 3-1/2 inch stroke had perf...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

New York City Draft Riots of 1863

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Theme of Slavery in 3 Literary Eras

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

Evolution of the Nation

In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...

Federal Bureaucracy

order to coordinate the Union war effort (Federal Bureaucracy) It was in the nineteenth century that Western democracies began ...

The Paraguyan War (The War of the Triple Alliance)

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

“Major Problems in California History”

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

Is the California Dream Over?

place he established were treated as little better than slaves, and lost their autonomy. So the cost of bringing the "white mans" ...

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...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Tattoos in American Culture

circus freaks, bikers, and other marginal people" (Bell, 1999, p. 53). In addition, shows like "L.A. Ink" and "Miami Ink" have pop...

The North American Union

the development of programs" (Sanchez, 2007) and they also gave more instructions to their committees (Sanchez, 2007). At that ti...

Campaigns and the Media

their newspaper competed with each other to see which could produce the most sensationalized news (OConnor and Sabato, 2008). How...