American History

Slave power can be defined as the great social, economic and political influence that the slaveholders wielded. The slaveholders who lived in the South had far-reaching influence that affected all aspects of life. Their influence was not only over their slaves, but over society in general. Certainly, those who were slaveholders had considerably more influence than those who were not slaveholders. Slave power had control even of the government. Slaveholders were in virtually all the offices of the...

African-American is a term that has been used to refer to Americans who owe their roots to Sub-Saharan Africa. They have, in the course of history, involved themselves in activities that are in the in their interest as a group. Such activities included pride, defiance, and fighting for human rights. The governments during these periods did not seem to be comfortable with the activities of the African Americans. Their struggle dates back to the nineteenth century in the form of political movements...

This paper shall attempt to address the issue of gender as it has been portrayed and reflected upon in the Beat generation and its literature. By doing so, the paper shall attempt to achieve its purpose of identifying the contribution that the Beat culture has made to the evolution of the American society and in bringing it to its current standing. With regard to the commonly considered perspective that questions that Beat attitudes toward gender and seeks to identify whether they differ from those...

The Vietnam crisis had been gathering momentum since the early 1950s and American involvement had started in the 1940s and kept on increasing over the years. By 1965, the war escalated as President Johnson began a massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam. At this time, the antiwar movement established its roots as more groups who were opposed to the war became more vocal. The American vocabulary saw the emergence of such terms like counter culture,  establishment, nonviolence,  pacification,...

The progress of Negroe freedom in America since the end of revolution to the early nineteenth century owe a lot to the entire works of U.S president Thomas Jefferson. Over time, Jeffersons commitment to end slavery in America has received mixed reactions among various people across the globe. Some have adored his commitment to end slavery while others have criticized this commitment terming it as mere hypocrisy given that some aspects of his life proved otherwise. Since the 1700s, Jefferson writings...

The deaths of the popular American gay writers William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke and Allen Ginsberg cannot be deemed as the end of the Beat Generation which is considered as the most influential literary movements in the history of the country as such their influence is still very evident in todays poetry.    Beat Generation is a group of American writers who came to prominence during the 1950s which basically tackles issues about experimentation with drugs, sexuality and other...

The Sixties was marked of massive unemployment and poverty. The people of America are demanding for economic justice. Americans are calling for social change. People are caught up in the culture of protest  against poverty, unemployment, racial injustice, and against the Vietnam War. 1968 was described as a tumultuous year for America. Is it because of the rallies, picket, strikes, and sit-ins emerging around America These are the succeeding events that left scar to America. January 31 The...

One major similarity between the 1920s and the 1980s was the turmoil coming out from the previous decade. People living in the 1920s came out of World War I (1914-1918) and while those in the Eighties were coming out of Watergate (1974), a nationwide gas shortage (several years) and the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979). People wondered what the next ten years would bring.    Having ideological troubles abroad continued through both decades. During the 1920s, Germany and its allies were...

 The Vietnam War was one of the debacle  militarily and politically for the USAs policy in Asia. The collapse of South Vietnam, the US ally against the aggressive and disciplined North was possibly inevitable as the counter insurgency strategy of the US miserably failed. Former President Richard M. Nixon argued that the US was winning the war in Vietnam but we lost the war politically in the United States.  Such argument was perhaps a sort of face saving statement from politicians...