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

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...

In five pages this paper considers the author's attitudes regarding war as reflected in the First World War soldiers in the novel ...

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

In this five page paper the writer explores the book by Tom Engelhardt from a personal perspective. Insight is provided as to how...

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

In ten pages this paper discusses the Civil War in a consideration of the impact of events that took place in Kentucky before and ...

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

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

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...

national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...

the power of the peasants and their growing discontent. As time passed and conditions worsened, the people continued to get les...

the evolution of revolutions. Firstly, an overall faith in the existing political and ruling system decreases and the intellectual...

While the Industrial Revolution was instrumental in the creation of cities and provided many jobs, it had a dark underside as well...

legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...

people had always made their own products by hand, or traded their hand made products for another persons hand made products. With...

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution in America was shaped by these corporate kingpins....

In six pages this essay seeks to better understand the French Revolution through an application of the theories contained in Machi...

well as the commoners demanded a constitution and a new regime in which personal rights would be respected. In discussing the cal...