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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Politics on the Prairie - The Bloody Birth of Kansas
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A 14 page paper that explores the political, social and economic tensions that surrounded the formation of the state of Kansas directly preceding the onset of the Civil War. Discussed are the political factions that struggled for control of the Kansas Territory and the national issues that were behind this struggle. Also discussed are the bloody conflicts between opposing factions in the Kansas Territory that led to the label of "Bleeding Kansas". Bibliography lists 6 sources. LCKansas.doc
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Post-Civil War America / Crisis in the 1890's
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A 3 page paper that describes the political, economic and individual crises in post-Civil War America. Included in this paper are the Pullman train strike, Coxey's Army and the march on Washington, unemployment, and the impact of the financial crisis of 1893. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Pre-Civil War Issues
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A 6 page paper. Today, as in the 1850s and 1860s, there is a division of opinions among historians regarding the Civil War. One group believes the war was unavoidable due to the number of issues and conflicting interests between the states in the 1850s. Another group believes the war never should have happened, the issues could have and should have been resolved by the political leaders of the day. This paper discusses the issues and conflicts between Northerners and Southerners prior to the Civil War. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Progress Between 1837 And 1867
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7 pages in length. America experienced significant changes between the years of 1837 and 1867; however, everyone did not necessarily embrace this overwhelming progress. From political, economic, social and cultural ideas to issues of slavery, civil war, voting, church, schools, public office, banking, manufacturing, gender, culture, education, fine arts and even respect for the elderly, Edward L. Ayers' American Passages: A History Of The United States demonstrates how these years were chock full of a combination of acceptance and rebellion. No additional sources cited.
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Racial and Ethnic Differences: From Colonial Times to the Present
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With the British colonization of the “New World” a brand new sociological experiment began. This experiment involved the mixing of peoples from different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds in an environment where there were no hard and fast rules as to how these people should interrelate. While the colonists in the “New World” shared certain ideological values, there were also sectional differences and the differences would translate into ethnic and racial tensions which persist, to a large degree, even today. In many ways these differences would affect the course of history itself. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Railroad History, 1845-1865
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A 15 page research paper that outlines the early history of America's railroads, focusing on the period from 1845 to 1865. The writer examines the social and economic forces that led to the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Also examined are the ways in which railroads affected the country socially and economically. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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