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Nullification Proclamation
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In 5 pages the author discusses the Nullification Proclamation of 1832, the controversy between Andrew Jackson and South Carolina and South Carolina Secession. "The nullification confrontation was the catalyst that put then president Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun, a senator, against one another. The crux of the confrontation concerned the argument of whether a state could nullify federal law. This was considered an important step in an attempt to give definition to the proper powers of the states." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Nullif2.wps
Oates/John Brown Biography
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A 3 page essay that examines Stephen B. Oates' biography of John Brown, The Purge This land with Blood (1984). In his prologue to his biography of John Brown, Oates points out that John Brown, the abolitionist who led the ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry in order to instigate a slave insurrection, has been characterized as a "great and immortal hero" by some and as a "crazy horse thief, a murderer (and) a psychopath" by others (vii). Oates argues that modern scholars and readers will never fully understand Brown, who he was and why he acted as he did, unless his religious beliefs are taken seriously, as they are the key to understanding this complicated man. Oates does an admirable job of supporting this premise and shows that Brown was motivated almost exclusively by his strong Calvinist beliefs. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khoatjb.rtf
Orphan Trains: Mid 1800s to the Early 1900s
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A 6 page review of the history of the orphan trains, New York City’s and Boston’s solution to the problem of the street waif. This movement involved not just true orphans, not just children for whom there were no relatives left, but also children who were being inadequately cared for by their own families. These children were rounded up and shipped to new homes in the West and the Midwest where they either became indentured servants or were adopted into caring homes which would provide both care and direction to a better life. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPorphTr.rtf
Overview of Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar’s “The Park and the People: A History of Central Park”
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This is a 5 page paper reviewing Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar’s book, “The Park and the People: A History of Central Park”. Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar’s “The Park and the People: A History of Central Park” (1992, 1998) aptly chronicles the history of New York’s Central Park and the people who created it. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of the book is the highlighting of those who created, designed, and controlled the park and how it was adopted by the elite and the working class citizens of New York through its growing concept of a ‘public park’. Despite the influences of the elite gentlemen and designers who were inspired by the great city parks of Europe, Central Park was quickly adopted by the working classes from those who labored during the construction of the park to those who were settlers in the area. The concept of “public park” and the query of “whose park is it anyway” continues to be of great importance in present day New York as does the importance of the people who play a role in the continued popularity of the park.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TJRosen1.rtf
Owning Slaves in the 19th Century
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A 12 page research paper that examines the life of the slave owner, looking at the way that plantations were run, the economics, and the life of women in this environment. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: 99master.wps
Paludan's Victims: The Shelton Laurel Massacre
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Phillip Shaw Paludan,
in his book, Victims: A True Story of the Civil War, presents the social
aspects of a war that has been represented in the history books as a
morality fight or as strictly political. This 5 page paper tells the
story of the Shelton Laurel massacre of 1863. No additional sources are
listed.
Filename: palvic
Parkman's The Oregon Trail
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Book report on the Parkman's classic text focusing on the theme that Parkman became a man through the adventure in terms of controlling his ego as part of the hero's journey. 1 work cited. jvOregTr.rtf
Filename: jvOregTr.rtf
Perceptions of the American West and Frontier in Regards to Cultural Perspective and Historical Method
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This is a 7 page paper discussing perceptions of the American west and frontier. Perception of historical documentation is presented and argued regarding two aspects. Firstly, whether or not cultural perspective should be included in historical accounts such as argued by Jane Tompkins or whether or not cultural beliefs, and indeed the perspective of the Native Americans, should be ignored in regards to the documentation of history and history should just relate to the major chronological events as postulated by Frederick Jackson Turner. Secondly, contemporary historians such as Patricia Limerick and Eric Gary Anderson have changed the sequential historical paradigms used by Turneresque historians and instead used the writings of N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Silko among others to develop models of the Southwest which overlap and intersect different multicultural components found in order to provide nonsequential paradigms where time, space, frontiers, and crossings are boundless and in addition provide present and future existences which show the Euro-American “conquering” and influence on the West as only a small “blip” in regards to overall perception.
Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TJAwest1.rtf
Place Descriptions in Julia Neal's "The Kentucky Shakers"
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A 10 page paper which
analyzes Julia Neal's use of place descriptions in her book "The Kentucky Shakers."
Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
Filename: RAjulneal.wps
Politicians' Roles in Beginning and Ending War
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A 5 page paper discussing the
validity of the statement, "Politicians start wars, armies do not. Government end wars, generals
do not." A variety of poorly-planned laws and policies beginning in 1850 with the Missouri
Compromise led to steadily increasing tensions regarding slavery, culminating in bloodshed over
the Kansas-Nebraska Act during Franklin Pierce's administration. As there were no military
coups of either the Union or Confederate government, neither were the leading generals of each
side responsible for ending the war. They both acted as emissaries of their respective
governments, one the victor and one the bloody loser. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSCivWarBegin.wps
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