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Historical Essay Series: Tecumseh

My brothers, remember with me. Remember when we hunted on the lands given to us by the Great Spirit. Remember how we could roam were we would and hunt plentiful deer and other game as we wished.

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Historical Essay Series: A Vision Of The Future

One of the most intriguing things about the study of history is what was the average person on the street like? What did they think about the affairs of their times? For most eras of history, these are impossible questions to answer.

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Historical Essay Series: A Long Walk to Freedom

One of the dark facts of the American past has involved the country’s use of slave labor. Viewed by the people of the times as unpleasant, yet necessary, the use of slave labor continued until late in the nineteenth century.

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Historical Essay Series: All Men's Freedom

The American Civil War which was fought from 1861 until 1865 was an event that divided the country like no other.

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Historical Essay Series: Nothing For Something

The American Civil War which lasted from 1861 to 1865 was a defining era in this country’s history which was won militarily by the northern states at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead on both sides.

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Historical Essay Series: Badge of Honor

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American society was maturing from its agrarian roots into an age of industrialism. The birth pangs which society was experiencing during this transition were especially hard on the lower to middle classes of it citizens.

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Historical Essay Series: A Civilization Destroyed

Looking back on American history in the twentieth century, perhaps no other event of that century has played as great a role in demonstrating the American character as has the Great Depression. While most people tend to look at the Great Depression as only one economic crash, in …

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Historical Essay Series: The Rising Sun

As the morning of August 6th, 1945, dawned over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, no one who lived there could suspect that within a matter of hours almost half of its citizens would be dead, and their city would for all practical purposes, cease to exist. At 8:15 A.M., a single A …

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