In his 22-year career, Ruth set or tied 76 different records, including 2,056 bases on balls and 1,330 strikeouts, and helped his team win four of the seven World Series in which he played. In 1933 he hit the first home run in All-Star Game history, and he was one of the first players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Causes of Bacon's rebellion.

An analysis of the causes and results of Bacon's rebellion.

Describes the importance of ballistic missiles to the defense of the United States. Explores the history of missle development.

Reviews the book, Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose. Includes a summary of the book, where the author received his sources, and what is learned.

Essay is about the Battle of Leytle Gulf, which was a naval battle in World War II.

Essay provides a discussion regarding the Battle of Yorktown.

Benevolent Assimilation

This essay is a bibliography of Benjamin Franklin. It focuses on his early life, his various aspects of study, and his contribution to the formation of America.

Discusses American founding father Benjamin Franklin. Examines his role in developing foreign policy between the new United States Government and its foreign allies. Provides a brief biography of Franklin.

A review of Benjamin Franklin's moral and social philosophies revealed in his autobiography.

This essay is about the controversy behind our first american flag and whether there is evidence proving that Besty Ross did not make the first flag.

The Constitution is the document that shaped our government, and the Bill of Rights is the document to protect people from the government.

A review of the life history of Babe Ruth, the baseball legend.

A biography of American writer Henry Adams, who was the son of John Adams and the grandson of John Quincy Adams. He political and historical writing contributed greatly to the early development of the U.S. democracy.

Because of the history of African-Americans in the United States, many blacks felt disconnected from their African homeland. This was restored, in part, by African-American scholars, such as W.E.B Dubois, who chronicled the complex and sophisticated cultures of central and south Africa. The author also includes facts about slavery in the United States.

Discusses how the lives of black Americans were made difficult in the late 19th century. Describes social and economic conditions. Explores racial prejudice.

This essay talks about Black fashion from the 30's thru the 90's. It also tackles some of the issues blacks faced during different time periods.

This is my opinion about how the United States and Canada handled the situation of "Black Hawk Down."

Examines the history of African Americans in the United States. Uses as a reference the Alwyn Barr book, Black Texans A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995. Reviews Barr's book and finds it lacking for the lay reader.

Back in 1830's, the Americans were prejudice of the Native Americans because they wanted all of the Indian lands to themselves. They tried everything they possibly could to get the Indians out of their homelands.

Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Japanese fighters, bombers, and submarines attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Eighteen U.S. ships were sunken or badly damaged; more than 2,000 Americans were killed and many wounded. The following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to congress, referring to "the day, which will live in infamy," and acknowledging that a state of war existed between the United States and Japan.

Reviews, Clinton's World: Remaking American Foreign Policy, by William Hyland. Argues that Hyland has constructed a thorough and insightful work that examines the foreign policy during the first six years of the Clinton administration.

Constance Lindsay Skinner's book Pioneers of the Old Southwest: A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground (1919) describes the individuals who ventured westward in early America, many of whom were immigrants from European countries who came to America to escape religious and other persecution. She describes the role of traders in the old southwest who paved the way for eventual settlement. Numerous references to Daniel Boone and John Sevier make the book an excellent source for information on those two individuals.

Booker T. Washington focused on having education for real life jobs and not asking for equality from the whites. He just focused on getting help from the whites and accepting their place as blacks on earth. WEB Dubois focused on the exact opposite things that of Booker T. Washington. Dubois focused on a strategy called the gradualist political strategy. The gradualist political strategy tells that Dubois was very focused on blacks being book smart to get any where in life.

Explores the history of the Boston Massacre Trial. Describes the three parts of the evidence that led to the verdict.

The forceful actions of the colonists in North America against the British during the late 1700's were effective in various ways. Despondent about "taxation without representation," cruel treatment, and many of their natural rights disregarded, the colonists had to resort to the oldest and probably the most successful actions in changing their lives...violence, boycotting, and protests.

The Brown versus Board of Education decision was an immense influence on desegregation of schools and a milestone in the movement for equality. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education was unanimous, ruling that "separate but equal is inherently unequal." They ruled that no state had the power to pass a law that went against the 14th amendment of the United States Constitution.

Shows the argyments in the Brown vs. Board of Education case.

Essay consists of a discussion of the Buffalo Soldiers of the Frontier War.

Explores the history of the Battle of Bunker Hill, during the American Revolution. Examines the significance of the battle and describes how it showed the American colonists that the British were not invincible.

Discusses the importance of the 2004 American presidential election. Includes views on important issues from each candidates perspective, i.e. homeland security, health care, and education.