American History

Basic and fundamental are the rights declared in the Constitution that the state itself, acting through the body politic puts a limit to its supposed limitless powers. The constitution does not grant these powers nor convey the same to the people, however, the constitutional provisions act as limitations on the part of the government and its officials as against the defenseless citizens for unwarranted abuses on their rights. Among the rights protected by it is the freedom of religion including...

Defending and even blessing the institute of slavery in our days is barbarous. However, this was not so obvious in America less than two centuries ago, and the voices of advocates of slavery were not less loud than the ones of abolitionists. This paper is to analyze and compare the arguments of both parties presented in “The Blessings of Slavery” by George Fitzburg (pro slavery) and the works of Frederick Douglass presented in his “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”...

There is nothing at all new or original about this entire debate about whether the United States is a republic or an empire, or indeed a republican empire. During the years of the Vietnam War and for two decades afterward, there was a major historical debate between the revisionists like William Appleman Williams and Gabriel Kolko and realists like John Lewis Gaddis over the exact same questions, and the revisionists in that debate were rephrasing the same ideas as an earlier generation of Progressive...

The movie “Glory” is a 1989 film about the civil war wherein an unrecognized black regiment led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, played by Matthew Broderick, made a significant impact to the course of the civil war, even if the regiment got decimated at Fort Wagner during the last part of the movie. Initially, some members of the Union thought of it as a bad idea to recruit and train blacks in their army. When the officials agreed on the terms, these black soldiers were not placed on the battlefield...

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