He wrote this book in the 1630s and 1640s when he was the governor of the colony. ... Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia is a highly evolved product of this rationalist tradition. ... The Anglo-Saxons developed the most distinctive tradition of free institutions. ... It was probably the most influential book ever written in American history. ... Parrington brought the Progressive interpretation to intellectual history with his book Main Currents in American Thought. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America was aware that it needed to claim their share in all directions in the word when every nation was running faster than the other toward the free regions to have the power on it and dominate it and this is presented in the cartoon in document A. ... The development of a new steel navy also focused attention overseas, during both centuries. (19th and 20th) captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's book of 1890, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance. ... Americans took note of these events, and many thought we should purs...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a pharmacy book written by the emperor Shen-Nung about 2657 B.C., he recommends marijuana as a cure for "gout, rheumatism, malaria, beriberi, constipation, and absent mindedness (Stwerka 5)." ... Marijuana was first mentioned in an American book in 1843 where it was recommended as a treatment for gout, tetanus, hysteria, depression, and common insanity. ...

• Word Count: 3551
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Baumohl declares in his book Homelessness in America "The lives of all people, disabled or not, are embedded in circumstances shaped as much by structural factors as personal and biographical ones" ( 26). ... Baumohl states in his book Homeless in America that "According to this perspective, people were homeless because something was wrong with them- (25). ... Benefits are not "free," however. ...

• Word Count: 4318
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate