History Essays and Term Papers
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for American women domestically, yet paradoxically heightened fears in the polity about the exact role that women should adopt during wartime. A central issue that dominated women's lives during this period was how to combine the private sphere of…
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of the Civil Rights Movement, one initially thinks of non-violent demonstrations against segregation and prejudice forty years ago. This “revolution” to desegregate society took hundreds of lives; thousands of people were brutally beaten; churches…
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and sociological changes in America. Even more affected was America's way of conducting business. With the emergence of new technology came the need to market it, which brought these changes forward. Items such as the toaster, refrigerator and the…
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of effulgent paintings and intrepid
space excursions, but for most people, resplendent canvases don’t come near
the mind when someone mentions the 1960s. So just what do we associate the
decade with? The most intriguing part of our prior erudition:…
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to all fatal epidemic diseases, but now it is only applied to an acute, infectious, contagious disease of rodents and humans, caused by a short, thin, gram-negative bacillus. In humans, plague occurs in three forms: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague,…
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which many
changes were undergone in the north and the south in order to restore the
union. The south had suffered the destruction of their factories, railroads, the
now worthless Confederate money, and mainly their slave-worked farms.…
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Where were you November 22, 1963? Any and every American old enough to mourn, to feel sorrow remember where they were and what they were doing when they received the news that President John F. Kennedy had been murdered. My mother was only three…
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the remotest notion of the future of the internal combustion engine, while we were just on the edge of he great electrical development” (Ford 1926, 34). Ford was faced with a difficult situation:
The Edison Company offered me the general superintendence…
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U-2 spy plane was shot down in the U.S.S.R. in May 1960. The Soviet Union captured the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, who confessed he was a spy. Eisenhower accepted personal responsibility for the flight. He admitted that U-2 planes had been flying…
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American has been born who can write an impartial history of the ten years of our country immediately succeeding Appomattox, and deal fairly with the opposing factions in the bitter and frequently bloody after-struggle, he will find nothing so remarkable…
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