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Ford: “Michael’s War”

This 3 page paper discusses the novel “Michael’s War,” about the IRA. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...

Why Livy And Thucydides Chose To Write About War and Rome

after being cast into the water in a basket -- survived and ultimately grew up with the intent to seek revenge against the king (a...

Slavery and the Civil War

at the time of the Civil War, as suggested by the fact that it only had one slave by 1840 (MacLeod, 2008). It is perhaps also impo...

Questions on American History and Politics

elected to the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governors, Senators, and Congressmen. Black faces dominated the state legislatures...

America's Wars

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

War: Civil War, Iraq, Yugoslavia

the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...

Progress Comes at a Price: American Civil War

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

Athens and the Peloponnesian War

relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...

Federal Bureaucracy

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

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...

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...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

Women in the Canadian Military Forces

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

American History Themes of Imperialism and War

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

Vietnam Oral Narratives

Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In...

Vietnam Explored in Argumentative, Narrative, and Expository Writing

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Gearing Up for War: Europe 1939

see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

The Canadian Nation, the Boer War and the Conscription Crisis

Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

Ayers: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

Operation Desert Storm

and the "restoration of Kuwaits legitimate government to replace the puppet regime installed by Iraq" (Richelson, 2001). The Unit...

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 Legitimacy of the War in Iraq

is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...

U.S. Wars and Artillery Uses

materiel that were used during each war. The first war to be fought by Americans, and on American soil was the American...

War and Escalation of Violence Such as Rape

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...