Benjamin Franklin and Electricity
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A 5 page overview of Benjamin Franklin and his discovery of electricity. The paper also examines his political role in the nation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Essay Title: Benjamin Franklin and Electricity

Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton: Contributions to American History
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A 7 page discussion of the historical contributions of these three men. While it is easy to look at history as dry fact, when we consider these facts on an individual basis, history comes to life. A review of the contributions and personal characteristics of each of these men allows us to make a connection between America’s past and the present. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Essay Title: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton: Contributions to American History

Benjamin Franklin/Autobiography
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A 5 page essay that analyzes the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin in regards to the how Franklin embodied the American Dream. The writer also examines how Franklin can be seen as a model for the ideal eighteenth century man and, also, how his memoirs contributed to the concept of an American character. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Essay Title: Benjamin Franklin/Autobiography

Book Report: 1776 by David McCullough
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A 3 page paper which offers a report on the book 1776 by David McCullough. No additional sources cited.
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Essay Title: Book Report: 1776 by David McCullough

Book Review of Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”
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This is a 6 page book review discussing Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”. Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution” (1967, 1992) shows readers the importance and influence of the “pamphleteers” during the time of the American Revolution. Previous to Bailyn’s publication in 1967, most historical accounts of the Revolution included political and economical theories used to explain the change in the population toward Revolution. Bailyn’s text however shows the importance of the political writings at the time which appeared in newspapers, pamphlets, booklets, letters and published speeches in addition to the original influences of writers and philosophers in an attempt to rid the colonies of the corruption which originated through their affiliation with the Crown. While Patriots were originally a minority in the population and considered as “radicals”, in a short space of only fifteen years, their writings managed to “enlighten a population”. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Essay Title: Book Review of Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”

Boston Massacre
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The Boston Massacre is one of those events that are covered in history class and in history textbooks in a sentence or two. The incident is relegated to the status of an ‘important event’ that includes two referential points: it was the first conflict between the colonists and the English soldiers and the main character in the drama, Crispus Attucks, was a young Black man. This 6 page paper argues that the Boston Massacre, while being a pivotal event in the confrontation between the British Empire and its colony in America, was not the brutish misuse of power that has been portrayed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Essay Title: Boston Massacre

Britain and America Up to the Revolution
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A 4 page paper which examines the relations between Britain and America after the French and Indian War and prior to the Revolution. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Essay Title: Britain and America Up to the Revolution