Essays and Research Papers on All History Papers

9 pages in length. Harry S. Truman was a man with a vision; a vision that would continue to establish the United States of America as one of -- if not the most -- powerful countries in the world. His presidential skills were such that he represented the nation in a tough yet ...

A 15 page paper discussing the injustices suffered by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. America's hysteria over the Red Threat needed outlet, and Joe McCarthy's witch hunts had not yet begun. The Rosenbergs provided a scapegoat image through which the entire country could feel better: the 'boys' in Korea would not be facing ...

This 10 page essay analyzes the story on several levels: the protagonist's struggle with the past and the present, his journey to overcome past events, the path that finally gives him freedom; the author's commentary on the culture of the society during the more than two decades that span the story; and on the government. ...

This 5 page paper provides a concise overview of the major themes and perspectives presented in E. L. Doctorow's 1975 novel Ragtime. This paper reflects upon the societal and racial concepts noted by Doctorow, and then also defines the correlation between race and culture and the nature of man's transition in society as they ...

A 5 page paper on the book 'Being Red,' by Howard Fast. This book is a memoir of Fast's life as a communist during the earlier part of this decade. His tales take the reader behind the scenes of the communist movement during very stressful times. He remained a communist for quite some time while ...

A 6 page paper discussing the scandal of the 1950's that involved game shows and the rigging of those game shows. America was essentially a land of innocence, especially in regards to television and the media. We were not yet callused to depictions we saw on the television set and we trusted those ...

5 pages in length. When one thinks of Walt Disney, the mind conjures up visions of Mickey Mouse, amusement parks and feature-length films. But there exists more to the man who gifted the world with the likes of Donald Duck and Peter Pan: behind the imagination lived a role model who was impassioned with making ...

The lives of these two American celebrities are compared and contrasted in a 5 page analysis. The obvious similarities involving the early and tragic deaths of their sons leads to a discussion on their family values. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

A 10 page paper that compares and contrasts the styles and major developments in the American theatre from 1930 to the 1950s, with a focus on the scenery, costumes and actors of each era. Bibliography lists 12+ sources.

15 pages in length. The Gulf of Tonkin is significant to the beginning of the Vietnam War as it gave President Johnson the ammunition he needed to instigate combat upon the North Vietnamese. The battle, which took place near the North Vietnamese coast, has been historically noted as one of the key incidents ...

7 pages worth of brief essays and definitions pertinent to any study of the United States during the 1960's. Included are such names and keywords as : Lenny Bruce, Kent State Shootings, Woodstock, Clark Clifford, My Lai Massacre, Tet Offensive, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Voting Rights Act, Martin Luther King, Jack Ruby and much more. ...

A 7 page paper discussing the social protests of the 1960s. It was the decade when it seemed that the whole world was intent on coming to an end. Cities burned, as did draft cards. The drug culture was coming into its own. Rock stars dropped from drug overdoses and were held ...

A 5 page analysis of the book by Jonathan Rieder. Many books have investigated the societal and racial turmoil that began in the 1960s from the standpoint of the African-American community. This book, however, takes a look at the period between 1960 and 1980 from a different perspective--that of a middle-class white community. In so ...

A 5 page analysis of the book by Illsoo Kim which looks at the ways in which immigration has changed since the Immigration Act of 1965. Kim specifically looks at the Korean community centered in the New York metropolitan area as representative of this new wave of immigration. This book demonstrates how the fundamental nature ...

A 5 page paper in which the writer discusses Teddy Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan, comparing how and why these three men each demonstrated characteristics qualifying them as the most influential U.S. Presidents of the 20th century. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

During the Kennedy Administration, the phrase 'New Frontier' referred to a domestic policy proposing to reduce unemployment, increase education funding, improve housing, offer medical care to the elderly, reduce taxes, and protect civil rights. Kennedy's 'New Frontier' became Johnson's 'War on Poverty'. This 2 page paper explores the experiences of Philip Caputo as ...

A 5 page examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the role of John F. Kennedy. Bibliography lists five sources.

8 pages in length. Never before or since the Cuban Missile Crisis has the world been placed on such alert for potential nuclear disaster. As a result of Soviet missiles being secretly planted in Cuba, the threat of a nuclear world war was directly at hand. The writer discusses what ultimately caused ...

A 9 page research paper on the Bay of Pigs and the relationship of the CIA to Kennedy. The writer details the background of the fiasco, and the culpability of the participants. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 5 page analysis of the Peter Wyden's fascinating book. This is a well-researched, scholarly, historical account, of the disastrous invasion of Cuba in the Kennedy administration, which reads as if it were a novel. Full of dialogue and description, Wyden gives the reader an insider's view of how the plans for the Bay ...

A 12 page overview of Kennedy's executive committee handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis compared to Nixon's normalization process developed out of the Shanghai Communiqué and the crisis of the Cultural Revolution in China in 1970. The paper discusses the salient points of how these two forms of negotiation (committee and normalization) were developed ...

12 pages in length. An insightful look at how the media portrayed the Latin Lords -- a radical, socio-politically involved group (active during the 60's and 70's) that can be compared in many respects to the better-known Black Panthers. The author argues that the media over-exaggerated and made them out to be 'irresponsible hoods' ...

This 5 page essay reviews some of the most notable protest movements occuring in the U.S.A between 1950 and 1990. Struggles for civl rights and preservation of the environment are among the many touched upon. Bibliography lists seven sources.

This 3 page report discusses how dissent has come to be seen in America as somehow less than patriotic. Americans appear to have developed an attitude that dissent does not serve the greater purposes of the nation or, at the very least, dissent is actually irritating rather than motivating. Most Americans believe that dissent ...

In this 7 page paper, the writer analyzes the impact of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954. It is demonstrated that, although the Supreme Court had good intentions when deciding against segregation, the hidden racial agendas caused by this decision have had lasting effects. After over 40 years, the positive ...