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predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

certain representatives European origin made their way to the Americas. The exact time of the earliest of these encounters is con...

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

In five pages this historical text by Jill Lepore is analyzed in a consideration of how American identity was shaped by that long ...

This essay/research paper, first of all, defines colonialism and discusses how it can be differentiated from imperialism. Then, t...

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

injustice of it all is recognized today but at the time preceding the civil war there was little sympathy for the black men, women...

Mexican American identity in San Antonio, then, demonstrated the self-definition that took place that separated the Spanish Mexica...

In nine pages cultural anthropology is applied to the culture of the Japanese Americans in hopes of understanding their U.S. histo...

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

For example, strong hostility existed between Native Americans and the Spanish because the Spanish prohibited the Indians from pra...

ever built one man, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, invented a kind of camera that was monochromatic which means it was a camera that...

The history of the coca plant, Erythroxylum coca, is discussed in this paper, including its cultivation in Peru, Colombia and Boli...

in the Americas. These include a migration over the Bering Strait land bridge, multiple migrations from multiple locations, and a...

history of the United States but are all too often not the focus of American history. While other authors seem to circumvent the r...

This paper presents discussion of five issues that pertain to European and American history, such as the factors that compelled Eu...

This six page essay explores the book by Robert Berkhofer, Jr. The writer emphasizes the diversity that characterizes Native Ameri...

In eight pages this research paper briefly covers the history of Chinese American families U.S. relocation, current prejudices, cu...

can produce, she would begin her correspondence to her husband, "Dearest Friend," and sign them "Portia" (http://www.masshist.org/...

wings of the bird and during the ceremony, the dancers snap the beak closed with a loud clap (Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance Mask, 2002...

times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...

amount of finger pointing going on in California as to who is responsible for this most recent energy shortage. Nonetheless, few ...

the phrase "I came, I saw, I conquered" is, in short, the essence of the spirit of adventure, adaptability, and advancement that d...

middle-class incomes once the frugality and struggles of their youth were over" (108). In essence, once the wilderness struggles w...

the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi...

the bare necessities were sufficient in the beginning. In Morrisons text he shows examples of various forms of connecting logs tog...

as "submission to the new culture or changing to the old" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Instead, by working out the conflicts, "a new awarene...

(Laughter Genealogy, 2008). Another region, Pennsylvania, saw an African American history that was essentially one of slav...

know, were first brought over to the United States as slaves. At that point in time the African American had a different language ...

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