American War
Essays

Mr. Polk's War -- American Opposition and Dissent, 1846-1848

Wars are fought for many reasons, but freedom from oppression is by far the noblest. The Colonial States of America were British ruled until the year 1776, when the Declaration of Independence called for a complete…

¶ … American war returnees faced myriad challenges beginning 1945 prominent of which was housing shortages is spot on. In fact, were it not for Levett, who initiated mass production of homes, the situation could have…

The purpose of this paper is to trace and establish the political effects of the Mexican-American War, fought between the two countries from 1846 to 1848. Also called the U.S.-Mexico War, it is known in the U.S.

Since time immemorial, warring sides in battles have sought ways of gaining strategic advantages over their enemies. Those who manage to get that one crucial advantage during war have an added advantage and, hence, a…

Mexican-American War was fought between 1846 and 1848 and marked the first war for the United States that was primary fought on foreign soil. The war was initiated by the United States, with President Polk seeking to…

In his eerily prescient analysis of America's calamitous excursion into the jungles of Vietnam, entitled The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era, war correspondent and author David Halberstam demonstrates the inexorable influence of historic recurrence on modern events. Although only thirty years of age at the time of his reporting, Halberstam harnesses lessons learned through centuries of human conflict, focusing his penetrating perceptive skills on the defining event of his era: the Vietnam War. In doing so, Halberstam penned a devastating indictment of the American government's foreign policy, denouncing the military's overt displays of hubris and damning the entire endeavor with the derisive label quagmire; one which would forever after be used to describe futility in the realm of armed conflict.

Mexican-American War took place between 1846 and 1848 between the United States and Mexico just after the U.S.'s annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered part of its sovereign territory.