King Philip's War: Summary

Sophia’s War, written by Avi a Newbery Award-winning author was published on September 25, 2012, and has 302 pages.

Your textbook (and most short accounts) depict the war as Indians against English colonists; how is that depiction accurate, and why or why not?

These books were similar to each other, however, he took an entirely different path when writing Everyday Life in Early America. This book is easily accessible to any education level, perhaps even an elementary school teacher could read and paraphrase the sections to their students. For anyone interested in what went on in the lives of people in America during the seventeenth century, this would be a good read. From high school to historical scholars, this book is an “introductory” level type of text. This book can stand alone, but it would also make for a very good text book if the

His emphasis in his writing has been antebellum reform movements, what makes this book unique from other historical novels is it attempts to only

In everyday society cruelty is faced, weather yet another person is arrested for the killing of and innocent animal, or even the seemingly never ending brutality of the police forces going viral on YouTube yet again. Of course we have the do not touch subjects, such as war. The constant debate over is killing innocent people okay, just because it’s war. Jack London really brings this point alive in his short story “War”. In this thought-provoking piece of literature the odd uses of characterization, symbolism, morals, and irony lead a reader to an overall statement of theme that simply war is cruel.

The British enrolled about fifty thousand American Loyalists and enlisted the services of many Indians, who though unreliable, who fair-weather fighters, inflamed long stretches of the frontier”(135). This extra help from colonists, Loyalist, hessians, and the Indians only add to the army creating a bigger advantage towards the colonists. Even though they did not win it can said that the British seemed to have a bigger lead on the colonists. Colonists presented themselves as weak and disorganized, where one would presume that they wouldn’t win at all, “Yet the American rebels were badly organized for war. From the earliest days, they had been almost fatally lacking in unity, and a new nation lurched forward uncertainly like an uncoordinated centipede”(136). Organization is important for the colonists because they are competing against a well-developed and trained army.

One thing in the story that shocked me is how different our perception of the Revolutionary War is from the reality. An example of this was how ill trained the American army was at the beginning of the war. The army was undisciplined, disobedient, and motivated only by their paychecks. Many perceive the soldiers as valiant, zealous men, but it wasn’t until much later in the war that the soldiers rose to the occasion and became the warriors that we remember today.

One of the bloodiest conflicts in U.S history that occurred in the 17th century was Metacom's war (also known as King Philip's War). In Proportion to the population, it is also recognized as the deadliest war in American history. By the end of the war, the English population of New England had declined by thirty percent and the Native Americans population declined more than twice the percent as the English. The dreadful war was a violent and destructive conflict, which was triggered by the devotion of maintaining cultural identity and preserving authority and power, both in religious and society capacities in which one believed to be his land. As a result, this crisis has impacted Americans and the culture of themselves for many years. This essay will analyze the history of Metacom's war chronology from June 1675-August 1676 informing the readers with knowledge about King Philip, the cause and effects of the conflict, and the impact it has made towards Americans.

While it is impossible to truly elaborate or even go into much detail on the exploits of Captain John Smith’s life, in this paper I will be covering several of his many achievements. In addition, I will be dispelling several of the popular myths in regards to his life that many modern day Americans believe in. Some of these more modern day myths or false narratives are due to his story being adapted and changed in order to make a children’s video by Disney, while others have been debated by historians ever since they were penned by Smith in one of his most famous works consisting of six volumes: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles.

McCullough, through his colorful and descriptive writing, develops an intimate connection to the historical events of the American Revolution and the reader, no matter how informed they are on the subject at hand.

William Bradford and John Smith were both early American writers; however, their writing styles were very different. They began writing around the same time with Smith starting in 1608 and Bradford starting in 1630. Smith wrote three books: A Description of New England, The General History, and A True Relation. However, Bradford wrote only one book called Of Plymouth Plantation. Bradford’s writing style is easy to read but still well written. Smith’s writing, on the other hand, is difficult to follow. In Smith’s The General History, he expresses that he has a low regard for the Native Americans in the way he frequently refers to them as savages. On the other hand, Bradford demonstrates a high regard for them when he wrote about them helping the Plymouth settlement. Just as their writing styles are different, so are their motives for writing. Bradford wrote because he did not want the Plymouth Plantation settlement to be forgotten, whereas Smith wrote for money and to promote exploration of the New World. The theme of Smith’s writing was very secular, even

David McCullough’s novel 1776 is a compelling story of America’s war for independence. We have all read chapters and heard the related history of the war of 1776, but David McCullough takes the epic story even further. The book covers the entire year of 1776 from the beginning of the war until the end. The author provides an extremely detailed description of both sides of the conflict both American and British. David McCullough is a renowned author and historian and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for two of his novels; John Adams and Truman, and with reading 1776 you can see exactly why he is so celebrated. His

devices throughout his narrative to show the reader why slavery was such a horrific time. He was very

Of course, he had help along the way, for example from the Research Committee at Northern Texas State University of which he gives gratitude in the book’s preface. He also stated that besides his own personal research, the Department of History was really helpful in aiding him during their free time to gather sources and data. He even gives special recognition to his first doctoral student Cecil Harper, who he exclaimed “that Cecil gave so much time helping him with his research, listening to rehearsals of his ideas, and reading early drafts of the manuscript, that he slowed progress on his own dissertation.”ⁱ This is for what he literally considers a “study” of how slavery broke down the heart of a nation and how this “peculiar institution” changed and

This book “Philip of Spain” by Henry Kamen. Kamen attempts to explain how the people of the Spanish portion of the Liberian Peninsula managed to acquire control of a bizarre world empire. From the 15th century, Spain was inspired by completion from Portugal into mounting a series of ventures to seek commercial ties with the orient, which led first to the discovery and conquest of the islands and then the New World.