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of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

In five pages Let the Good Times Role by Sturdevant and Stoltzfus is used to consider how U.S. soldiers victimized Asian prostitut...

This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...

is exciting-it is New York, after all-and hes happy to be there, living in safety with the woman who adopted him as her son. But l...

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at black soldiers in the Civil War. The experiences of inequality endured by such soldi...

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

http://webpages.marshall.edu/ ~lloydc/RomCivWars.html). The armies of the Senate ultimately overtook Tiberius, killing the leader...

crossfire fervor of post war vengeance. The tragedy at Andersonville was not of Wirz doing. He was in the wrong place, at the wron...

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

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...