Research Paper Samples

Military might is a common factor to consider on the political, social, and diplomatic stage. It determines much of policy and understanding the relations between…

By Natalie Lawrence To the far north, on the coast of Norway, there lives a mighty creature, as big as an elephant, called the walrus…

By Javed Mohammed The Muslim World and Cinema Every culture promotes its history, beliefs, heroes, values, norms, and attitude. The African-American director Spike Lee said…

By Mark Hobbs Berlin in June 1945 was not at all a pleasant place to be. As the dust settled on what was left of…

By John Toohey In the autumn of 1569, the Gargaryne, a French trader, was moored off Cape Breton in present day Nova Scotia, when its…

By Susanna Berger In 1619, Martin Meurisse (1584–1644), a Franciscan professor of philosophy at the Grand Couvent des Cordeliers in Paris, became embroiled in a…

By Jon Crabb The publishing revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed an explosion of printed material, democratising information and pushing it into the…

By Richard Swan This paper is a personal response to Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare: the invention of the human. I found the book profoundly annoying, partly…

This article [A Queer Taste for Macaroni] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/02/22/a-queer-taste-for-macaroni/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish…

This article [George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2017/02/08/george-washington-a-descendant-of-odin/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you…

This article [Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/10/12/harry-clarkes-looking-glass/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to…

This article [Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/10/26/richard-hakluyt-and-early-english-travel/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you…

This article [“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/11/10/let-us-calculate-leibniz-llull-and-computational-imagination/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike…

This article [Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/09/07/visions-of-algae-in-eighteenth-century-botany/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you…

This article [“Unlimiting the Bounds”: The Panorama and the Balloon View] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/08/03/unlimiting-the-bounds-the-panorama-and-the-balloon-view/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike…

This article [“For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century] was originally published in The Public Domain…

This article [Black on Black] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/04/09/black-on-black/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse…

THE AUTHOR Carl F. Rosenthal, a research scientist at CRESS, received his IVL A. in history from the University of Illinois, and his B.A. in…

By David S. Webster, edited by Nicholas Klacsanzky In “Berkeley in the Sixties” (Kitchell 1990), a film about east San Francisco Bay area protesters, both…

This article [Scurvy and the Terra Incognita] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/05/06/scurvy-and-the-terra-incognita/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish…