Military history by topic

Source 1 Source 2 Source 3 Source 4 Source 5 Source 6 Source 7 Topic Sentences: Abraham was pro slavery because he felt assigned to white people and a leader to that race. Secondly, Abraham Lincoln felt that both the Negroes and the whites should be separated. Lastly, Abraham Lincoln only freed some slaves, and not all of them. Thesis reasons: Felt like he was assigned to white people He doesn’t want both races to be connected He didn’t free every slave Counterclaim: Abraham Lincoln…

Over the semester in this course, the sole focus was the Crusades. The Crusades is not a proud history for Christians. The brutality used and the amount of death that resulted in the acts of the Crusades has left its imprint on history forever, but there is much more to the Crusades than this. From this course, the most important concept learned from this course is the fact that the Crusades is something that is not easily understood or explained. There are so many components and concepts that…

by some as a symbol of rich southern history from the Civil War, and others believe it symbolizes white supremacy and the idolization of slave owners in the 1800’s. The most notable monument in downtown Wilmington is a statue of George Davis, a former Confederate attorney general. This statue was recently vandalized…

posting for his own amusement. When I explained to him how I saw it more as we need to take care of ourselves first so we can ultimately take care of others, he expressed to me that he like my point of view and agreed with me. Since we were on the topic of social media I went ahead and asked him how internet regulations increased or decreased personal, community, or national security. He felt that internet and technological regulations increase national…

Introduction: In this essay the Frontier Wars will be discussed. This topic will be discussed with the main focus on the wars itself, their impact upon the Xhosa tribal structure, leading to the eventual subjugation of The Xhosa. According to Ryan Merkley, the Xhosa Wars, also known as the Cape Frontier Wars, or “Africa’s 100 years war”, were a series of nine wars between the Xhosa tribes and European settlers in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa (Jay, 2010). The Frontier or Xhosa…

or events that occurred in history. One vocabulary word that can be used in relation to these questions is Belligerent. To be belligerent is to be involved in conflict or war, as is Japan, United States, and the Al Qaeda's. Both U.S. and Japan were in conflict and were unhappy with each other and this caused them to be belligerent. The academic vocabulary that played a part in this lesson were words like economic sanctions and trade embargoes. They relate to this topic as a result of when the…

“When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free,” which is a statement made by President Obama in 2014. Then just a year later same-sex marriage was finally legalized in the United States. The pride movement has been one of the largest growing civil rights movements this country has ever faced. It has had a long battle, but will continue to push forward. It 's not a battle for citizens of the United States, but the world as a whole…

Rights which may have narrowed the power of the Crown was the clause that states that it was against the law to keep an army in times of peace without the consent of Parliament. This was put to the test after the treaty of Ryswick (1697) where this topic was hotly disputed- the government use ‘guards and garrisons’ to avoid the term ‘army’. William appeal to keep the Dutch foot guards resulted in a hostile demo but the Disbanding act of 1699 fixed the no. of troop to be kept on establishment.…

for understanding the meaning of the cold war, questioning the reason for the peculiar naming of such event. The chosen words such as “cold” are general in a sense to understand the situation. The term used in the book Uncertain Empire: American History and the ideas of the Cold War calls cold as a descriptive word to understand the Soviet Union itself and the temperament between the Soviet Union and the United States. The word war used loosely to illustrate the gravity that is taken place;…

Identification and Evaluation of Sources To what extent did Leonardo da Vinci’s tank affect the tanks of World War I? The selection of this topic was an interesting process. Leonardo da Vinci is arguably one the greatest minds in all of Human History. I (as a Historian) enjoy the works of Leonardo da Vinci, as well as his affect on the introduction of tanks in World War 1. The investigation will use a compare and contrast, and argumentative formats. The sources I have selected to evaluate are…