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Engines and the Development of a Superpower

The new mode of transportation and the new roads it needed meant that people no longer had to live close to work, and suburbs deve...

Cook and Cook's Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance and Family Relationships

children that only they can produce. Though mothers were important in the family structure, unmarried daughters or older widows w...

21st Century America and African American Social Mobility

or success is associated with fame and fortune, or achievement in terms of the arts or sciences. Some individuals have not earned ...

Defining Equality

This paper explores the words of key nineteenth century Americans like William Graham Sumner, Chief Joseph, and Frederick Douglass...

Nineteenth Century Evangelists, Foote and Lee

This essay offers summaries and comparisons between the autobiographical narratives of African American nineteenth century preache...

Native American v Puritan Mindset

This paper reviews the seventeenth century accounts by Mary Rowlandson and Increase Mather. Rowlandson was held captive by Native...

Muckraking and Yellow Journalism

This paper is on "yellow journalism" and "muckraking," which are styles of journalism that were popular in the late nineteenth/ear...

Income Inequality and the American Dream: A Loss of Opportunities

This 3 page paper provides an overview of Howard Brick's critique of the American Dream and its inaccessibility in the 21st centur...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

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

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Isaac Asimov and an Annotated Bibliography

It is a beneficial article for it illustrates how Asimov was far more than an author, but rather a man with intelligent and very s...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

First Century of American Foreign Policy

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

US Government's Failure of the Late Nineteenth Century Assimilation of Native Americans

developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

Twentieth Century Changes in the Relationship Between the U.S. Economy and American Law

When the Keynesian revolution started, there was less concern about the supply side factors. Keynesian economics developed in res...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

California History/Santa Barbara

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

Questions on American History

This paper pertains to various issues in American history, which range from Washington to the War of 1812. Eight pages in length, ...