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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...

History and Contemporary Issues of African Americans

the population. The issue of environmental justice is one of great importance, since peoples health is at stake. "Environmental j...

NATO

Soviets are no longer perceived as a threat. Neither is Germany. And of course, the cold war is over. This provides a curious chal...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Civic Participation According to Schudson

changes in the law, and ... by responses to developments in Europe" (Barone, 1998, p. 92). In the early years of the nation, acco...

Virgin Mary's Visions and Significance

image they could understand and comprehend. They would envision her in clothing they comprehended and related to, images of heaven...

American Red Cross Finances

but it still manages to use more than 90 percent of donated funds directly for the purposes for which they were donated (American ...

The US and AIDS

2005). At this time it was a very frightening disease or virus or condition because not enough was known about the disease: "It is...

Benjamin Rader/American Sports

of sport and leisure, it seems that Benjamin Rader (2003) does a good job in outlining the relationship between the advent of citi...

US Unemployment

money can help people until they get back on their feet. This program has its roots in the Great Depression when a great deal of p...

Elections Which Have Made History

capturing a majority of the popular vote in 15 northern and western states" (Schofield, Miller & Martin, 2002). There were three ...

Freedom Rides and African American History

The idea for forcing such integration was still alive but did not take any real concrete action until the 1960s when John F....

An Oral History of One Woman Presented as an Historical Interview

goin to be trouble from the start. But back then women just didnt speak their minds." Thelma told the story of the mans hiring, ...

New World Colonization by England

to not only stay afloat but to allocate sufficient funding for the identification and colonization of various new lands which were...

The Kennedy Conspiracies

alone. We remember Kennedy in two very different lights, first as a great man, a great politician who had the interest of t...

Four Commencement Speakers from American History

Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...

US Society and the Impact of Operation Desert Storm

the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein, a man who now has finally been captured and is under American control. During the origin...

The Royal Family Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

Meanings of Racial and Ethnic Histories

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

History of the U.S. City

economic need and this occurred during the early part of the twentieth century. The Industrial Revolution played a significant p...

US Influence on the History of the Panama Canal

sentiment was expansionist tendencies on the part of Congress. Drew and Snow point out that at this point in history the acquisiti...

History of U.S. Common Law

"a system based on common law, but it has codified the law in the manner of the civil law jurisdictions" (2004). Also, in general,...

Native American Culture and Way of Life Decimation

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

American Culture and History

founded. Many in the turbulent times of today chose to condemn U.S. government and culture rather than to recognize it fo...

American History Q and A

education, in some unexplainable way he would be free from most of the hardships of the world, and, at any rate, could live withou...

Hitler's Germany and the Jim Crow South/Similarities in Regards to Racism

some instances, for example, it refers to the social changes which when a lesser developed country (a preindustrial society in som...

The Evolution of Federal Native-American Policy

the tribes in Illinois had already signed treated which essentially given their land to the state. In light of this he pushed and ...

Boston Massacre and the Massacre at Kent State University

113 guardsmen to fire tear-gas in order to disperse the crowd (1996). By that time, the crowd was equivalent to about one thousan...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...