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The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

Technological Differences Between Vietnam War and the Gulf War

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

American Civil War: Just or Unjust?

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

US Civil War's Purpose

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

War and Ernest Hemingway

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

The Civil War and Black Americans Who Fought

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

U.S. Civil War and the Turning Point at the Battle of Gettysburg

In seven pages the U.S. Civil War's bloodiest conflict and its implications are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliogra...

1865 to 1920 America and its Emergence on the World Stage

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

War in the Nineteenth Century

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

A Civil War Personal Account

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

History of U.S. Army Aviation

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

Slave Trade Economics and History

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

Weapons of World War II From Rifles To The Atom Bomb

What led to the evolution of such a deadly means of irreversible destruction. If World War I was the war to end all wars ....

February 13 through 16 1862 Fall of Ft. Donelson During the Civil War

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

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Robert Edgerton's Cloak of Competence and Mental Retardation

In seven pages this paper examines the Pacific Hospital research study and its outcomes as featured in Cloak of Competence by Robe...

Nuclear Weapons Policy of the US

Iraq had amassed huge stock piles of deadly biological warfare agents which it had planned to use against the United States (Hacke...

U.S. Civil War and Conscription

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. Civil War in a consideration of the history of conscription or the draft and its decli...

Letters of the Civil War

This research report looks at the American Civil War and how knowledge is acquired through letters written during the time period....

The Impact of the Two World Wars on the U.S. Economy, Race, Gender, and Civil Liberties Issues

Lafore. In this text, Lafore gives his interpretation as to the causes of World War I. In this tome, Lafore gives the reader a v...

Vietnam and the Stance of Martin Luther King Jr.

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the reasons behind Martin Luther King's opposition to the war in Vietnam in a chrono...

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...

Terrorism and Globalization

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

Weapons in WWII

submachine gun, with the common one being the MP40 for German soldiers (Heitmann et al.). With further development they finally "G...

Parallels Between the Civil Rights Movement and Post Civil War Reconstruction

servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United State...

Civil Rights and Differing Perceptions Contained Within Congressional Committee on Domestic Affairs Testimony

when the nation was desperately trying to establish policies and procedures which would act to protect the rights of the freed sla...

A Civil Action in relation to Critical Thinking

The triumph of small-town Woburn, Massachusetts families over large corporations they blamed for polluting their water was the sub...