Essays and Research Papers on All History Papers

A 3 page paper which examines what the postmodern world will look like and where one would be in terms of personal and professional lives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines how the Great War, WWII, was a war that was 500 years in the making and thus a war that had to take place eventually. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 6 page review of George Steiner's fictional novel featuring Adolf Hitler. In it Hitler finds temporary reprieve from the post World War II world in an Amazon jungle. Ultimately, however, he is hunted down for the purpose of being subjected to the world's wrath. Steiner's works clarifies that there is a ...

This 3 page book report provides information about this work, how it is ordered, whether it properly utilizes sources and so forth. Some quotes are provided. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page review of "The Longest Winter" by Alex Kershaw. No additional sources cited.

3 pages in length. Progressives, who "sought advancement through the liberation of human energies and potential from both the fading restraints of past ages and the new restraints imposed by modern industrialism" (Tallant, 2001), were responsible for tremendous changes to virtually every area of national society, not the least of which included regulation of ...

A 3 page summary and analysis of Don Higginbotham's work "The War of American Independence." No additional sources cited.

A 3 page review and analysis of Garry Boulard's "The Big Lie." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper examines the minds of the settlers at the time in question. Was there an American fervor in the New World or was it merely a European reflection of culture? Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page paper which distinguishes from modernism and postmodernism. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

5 pages in length. Edward Bellamy finds many things problematic about the rise of late nineteenth-century industrialism in Looking Backward: 2000-1887. The extent to which this rise of social progress served to economically stunt the masses while creating fortunes for a handful of savvy – if not unscrupulous – businessmen is both grand ...

This 3 page paper examines settlers and explorers including well known people like Thomas Jefferson and Daniel Boone. A bit of why each individual is important is the focus of this paper Bibliography lists 4 sources.

8 pages in length. Improving upon what many believe could not be enhanced, the sixtieth anniversary edition of Gordon William Prange's At Dawn We Slept : The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor incorporates the contributions of Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon as a means by which to assemble an even greater account ...

A 3 page research paper that analyzes Francis Parkman's text La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West was originally published in 1869, a time in literary history that is characterized as the "Romantic" era, which refers to the fact that artists, writers, and musicians were reacting to the over emphasis on rationality that ...

A 6 page book review that chooses 8 of the numerous profiles that Brokaw offers in his book The Greatest Generation. This text discusses the lives of men and women who went through World War II and this research paper shows why Brokaw's assessment is correct. No additional sources cites.

A 6 page (4 pp. + 2 pp. Annotated Bibliography) paper that evaluates the Communist hysteria that gripped America during the late 1940s and early 1950s and evaluates the allegations that led to the arrest and trial of the New York couple on espionage charges. Specifically considered are whether they received a fair trial ...

A 3 page paper. The Puritans left England to create a kingdom of God on earth in the New World. The question is: did they succeed? This essay provides an overview of the Puritans, primarily in Massachusetts, the compacts and agreements they signed beginning before they left England and how they violated their own purposes. ...

This 8 page paper considers the background to the Cold War and considers if the development of nuclear weapons can be seen as the cause or the catalyst that triggered the cold war between the US and the USSR. The bibliography cites 8 sources.

A 3 page overview of the underlying fight for equality that drove the production of these two documents. Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Jefferson were widely disparate in terms of their race and their socioeconomic and political footing. Both, however, were intent on abolishing a situation that they saw as wrong. No additional ...

This 5 page paper discusses cattle ranching in the American southwest; its impact on the environment and the ethnic group associated with it. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 3 page paper examines two books by authors Appy and Young who present data and opinion on the Vietnam War. The two books--Patriots and The Vietnam Wars--are compared and contrasted. Some quotes are included. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page book review that argues that Wendell Pritchett's goal in his text Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews and the Changing Face of the Ghetto-- a community study of a section of Brooklyn, New York known as Brownsville --is to provide a complete sociological profile of this neighborhood. Pritchett begins in the late nineteenth century ...

This 5 page paper examines this era in particular and looks at America between 1890 and 1940. How the industrial revolution created the impetus for political change is the focus of this well documented paper. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines how "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison illustrates some of the symbolic and social conditions of the New Deal as seen through Frances K. Pohl's Framing America. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page discussion of the material presented in a chapter of a book titled Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by author Barrington Moore. Moore tackles the subject of the causes and effects of the American Civil War and the importance of the ideology ...