American History

In his book, Toward and American Revolution, Jerry Fresia gives a thought-provoking account of one particular event in Americas political history   the framing and ratification of the Constitution.  Fresias approach differs from other authors in the sense that he sees the making of the Constitution from a different perspective.  Fresia sees something wrong about America based on what happened in 1787.  He views it as the creation of an elite plutocracy rather than a real...

Winthrop Jordan explored the culprit behind rampant racism in the US. He not only investigates US, instead he goes back from the first contact of Europeans to the Africans. In the book, Jordan suggested that white men encountered black men and monkeys at the same time, they thought that there was a connection between them. He said that belief was not wide spread but was available as a theory for later use. Fast forwarding to America, Dr. Jordan cites the writings of Thomas Jefferson, who seemed...

The making of wage labor regulation for the slave owners was the governments alternative solution to the demand of emancipation by the Black Americans.  Due to the westward expansion, capitalist had nothing to do but to follow this new law.  Otherwise, their businesses and the industry in general would surely drop.  On the other hand, anti-slavery organizations were making demands to abolish totally the slavery and slave labor.  However, Black Americans are still in need to have...

The 18th century came with the American Revolution which was the beginning of the manumission of the slaves. This was meant to be the beginning of a new life for the slaves though the process was gradual. In the Northern states, the slaves were given some rights for example in capital cases they had the right to trial by jury. Just after the Revolution, there came a trend of separation and segregation. The Americans became threatened by the free slaves more than the slaves themselves especially...

 In his book,  White Mans Burden,  Winthrop Jordan explored how slavery started in America and stopping his narrative short before the start of the civil war.  It can be seen here that it was not merely an issue of slavery, but an issue of racism as well, an issue which would survive the civil war and be rooted in some, if not a lot of of Americans then and even today.    Africans arrived in Americas shores as slaves, more often than not, against their will. ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) was one of the phenomenal event in the history of America. The survival of todays most powerful country was an outcome of the nations ability to bring the ideals of liberty, human dignity, equality and justice during the reconstruction process. This reconstruction process was one of the most chaotic and divisive periods in Americas history. The reconstruction began when President Lincoln issued his proclamation more commonly known as the Ten Percent Plan. This plan was...

With the end of the Civil War, the enmity between the North and the South ended. Confederate troops returned to the barracks many of them returned to farming or trading. Union troops were disbanded. The one-million strong Union army was severely reduced to 10, 000.  President Lincoln implemented a reconstruction program the purpose of which were as follows 1) rebuilding the economic infrastructure of the South, 2) abolishing the institution of slavery in the South, and 3) emphasizing industrialization...

1 Slavery was something that the North and South held in common before the American Revolution. Yet after the Revolutionary slavery became a polarizing sectional issue that drove the United States to Civil War. How do you explain this development IntroductionSlavery was an important aspect of economic production before the American Revolution. In deed, both the South and the North benefited immensely from the services that were provided by the slaves. In particular, the South relied heavily on slave...

1.The Thinker is a sculpture of bronze and marble created by Auguste Rodin in 1902. Although it is independent and self-sufficient, the sculpture was designed as a part of The Gates of Hell, a portal that depicts the characters of  Dante Alighieris epic poem Divine Comedy. The Thinker represents the Poet, or Dante himself, sitting in front of the Gates of Hell and pondering poem. Auguste Rodin worked on The Gates of Hell for ten years total. 2.Reflection. The Thinker depicts a meditating man,...

Consisting of two executive orders, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. The first order of the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on September 22, 1862. The first part was just a preliminary issue in order to outline the second part. This was a declaration of freedom for all slaves who lived in states that were not controlled by the Union. When the second order was issued on January 1, 1863 most slaves were not immediately freed, but it did bring freedom...

   The book is divided into seven sections. The first section deals with the origins of the revolution. The author outlines the major and immediate causes of the revolutionary war. The second section discusses British policies in the colonies. The third section describes the revolution proper  the formalist and royalist views of the war. The author discusses the initial battles of the revolution and the diplomatic tactics of the leading revolutionaries (like Jefferson and Franklin)....

My name is John Williams, son of Michael and I am related to the famous Salem, Massachusetts minister, Roger, who was banished to Providence for his controversial sermons admonishing the colony for not doing enough to separate itself from the Church of England. (Taylor, 2002) I reside in Salem, Massachusetts with my wife Amanda, and my young son, Michael. I have lived in Salem all of my life and my family has lived here since 1703, when my father moved here from Plymouth to pursue a livelihood as...

Greg Landon viewed the war in Vietnam as morbid. In his letter to his parents, he said that eventhough the morale of the men is fairly good considering the situation they were in, there is still an underlying gloom about the war that they were engaged in. This means that the people and even the soldiers do not have the clear idea why they were having war. There had been no effort form the military to explain the war which resulted to total ignorance to the people and soldiers about the rationale...

Higher education in the United States of America has been shaped and influenced by various historical factors. There exist traditions and trends of higher learning which have been brought over from Western Europe. More so, the Native American conditions are found to have affected and brought about improvements and modifications of these institutions. From the association of these two elements that are quite vital, and more significantly, from the development in democracy in all aspects of the American...

Every year, a considerable number of people die of gun related injuries in the United States of America. The growing trend has worried a majority of the American society with many of them calling for more stringent laws to control arms ownership by private citizens. What has furthered the debate even is the fact that most of the incidences have involved minors who have no approval from the law to carry any weapon. The argument has been that the licensed adults must be careless to allow access to...

The American war effort during World War II could  encompass volumes of research and dedicated scrutiny however, the American war effort could be concisely stated into three categories Leadership, Logistics and Production. These three categories which straddle both military and civilian efforts comprise the core concepts of the American war effort. In the following paragraph Leadership defined is the ability to lead a group or a nation of people into a common cause. In the case of the Second...

Fear, cold unadulterated fear. The children and families of the 1950s and 1960s felt fear. It was an everyday thing. At least once a week every child in America learned how or reviewed how to get under their desks and cover their heads. That was just in case an A-bomb was dropped. World War II ended by dropping nuclear bombs on two cities in Japan. It worked, the war ended, or so everyone thought. The awesome power of a nuclear bomb then began to weigh heavily on the minds of all those who were...

The implementation of a stronger domestic and foreign policy of the Reagan administration deters its hold on its economy as well as its credibility to hold office, the cutting of taxes and invitation of anticommunist movement to help countries suffering from a war only worsen the current situation of the administration. The Reagan administration imposes a cut-off on taxes of the citizen in the expectation that it would help increase the inactive economy of the United States, but with the execution...