American History

The Korean conflict had a number of factors that contributed to it. One of the factors although it is not the major one could be the size of Korea as a country which is small in the middle of large countries such as Russia, China and Japan. Because of this fact, each surrounding country wanted to take over Korea to be under their territory, something which Korea had trouble in dealing with. Most of the time, she could find herself under the control of the neighbors like China which controlled her...

For many years after the end of the war of the French and the Indians, the history of the state of Massachusetts which consists of the record of the political conflicts which the involvement of the republican principles was deeply stimulated. These conflicts were arrested when news came in the spring of 1744 that France has pronounced war against Britain. The colonists are informed that the result would be dangerous to the American colonies and as such, they prepared for the conflict which is known...

Following the Spanish discovery and settlement of parts of the New World, other European nations joined in as they began to develop their own technology and capability to traveling there.  Among them were France and Holland.  The French were among the aggressive explorers and settlers of the New World as they were competing with the Spanish and the English.  Most of the French who settled here were the Hugenots, persecuted in predominantly Catholic France.  They initially settled...

Around 1606, New English made efforts to establish colonies along the American coast and the northern territory in Florida which was held by the Spanish. Over 100 English settlers in three ships sailing in the Chesapeake Bay up the James River attempted to settle on the island of Jamestown. However, attacks from the local Indians, food depravation and disease reduced their numbers to less than forty. By 1633, the English colonist experience massive attacks, and in 1644, 500 colonist were killed. In...

The Second World War is believed to have claimed the highest number of lives in the human history. The controversy in it was that in spite of it being the bloodiest war ever for soldiers, more civilians were killed than soldiers. The setting of the Second World War purposefully and intentionally targeted the heavily populated areas with an aim of killing more civilians. One of the reasons claimed for the attack of civilians was to create fear and demoralize them so that they can rise against their...

The article The  Western Way of War found in the book  The Cambridge History of Warfare  is crafted and written by Geoffrey Parker, a History professor at the Ohio State University who has written over thirty books related to military affairs including warfare. The articles thesis is how the West was won through the superior utilization of economic and intellectual factors and of weaponry.  The focus of the essay is to explicate the exact meaning of the western way of war through...

Taylor Branchs book, Parting the Waters is the first of the three-volume books that covers both the life and times of Dr. Martin King Jr. and the civil rights movement.  The titles of the the three books are derived from events from the Bible as told in the book of Exodus when Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt and into the Promised Land.  These books also tell of this journey the blacks took to the promised freedom and equality guaranteed by the laws of the United States to all its citizens. ...

George Washington was the first president of the United States of America. He reigned for two terms after which he decided to retire. He is considered as one of the greatest leaders that America has ever had in its history. He decided to publish his famous speech, the farewell address in the American daily advertiser of September 19, 1796. In his speech, he addressed a number of issues which he felt were important and that could help lead the nation to be more prosperous even after he had retired...

Progressivism, according to Walter Nugent (2010), was a many-sided reform movement that emerged in the final years of the nineteenth century, flourished from about 1900 to 1920, and faded away by the early 1920s. During the period, several reforms were put forward by different areas in the society. Such concerns stemmed from the discontented public regarding the imbalance on the American society. Monopolies destroyed healthy competition, producing conflicts between the employees and the employers....

Nature has a unique way of assigning responsibilities and characteristics to every creature that is on earth. This is done purposefully to ensure that each creature is able to survive. Cannibals are among the many creatures that are on earth. They feed on feed on human flesh and therefore cannibalism by definition is the act of feeding on human flesh. This practice was widespread during the pre-historic times and especially before the introduction of Christianity. However, after the introduction...

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were great philosophers in the history of United States who had different visions for current state in U.S. They differed in certain issues for instance, the social composition according to Jefferson comprised of artisans, settlers, shopkeepers, owners of small farms and frontiers. On the other hand, Alexander saw a social composure of merchants, manufacturers, bankers, and professionals. In another context, Jefferson admired a form of government that was...

During the 1960s and 1970s, there were two main revolutions witnessed in the United States. The two revolutions were the civil rights movement and the feminist movement. The civil rights movement was established with an aim of restoring suffrage and banning racial discrimination against African Americans, especially in the southern states. With time the movement widened its aims to include freedom from oppression, political and economic self-sufficiency, and racial dignity. The feminists movement...

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) is one of the United States presidents remembered on account of his contribution towards the recovery of the economy and the nation as well as advancing democracy in governance of the United States. He came up with a policy of 3Rs which were recovery, relief and reform. The relief was for the poor and unemployed the recovery was for the economy since it had gone down after the Second World War whereas the reform was for financial system so as to prevent any repeat of...

Brief Profile of the Authoress Carol F. Karlsen is a professor of History and Womens Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr Karlsen is the author of three books The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman Witchcraft in Colonial New England, and The Salem Witchcraft Trials A History in Documents. She is a recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies Award and has won a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. She is presently continuing with her...

In this time capsule I will attempt to represent as clearly as possible the effects of modern media in America. Currently, as technology has become increasingly advanced the means by which we understand and interact with the world around us has changed. Just twenty years ago, no one could have predicted the effects of websites such as Twitter or Facebook in communication and self-promotion. In the same way, no one could have suspected that printed media would see such a massive decline. Most important,...

Every society is based upon certain principles and foundations. These foundations are the reasons why a society becomes civilized and maintains its civilization. Therefore, it is not in order to try and disregard these important foundations. This will be seen as going back to the days when there was no civilization. There had been a lot of changes following the end of communism and the beginning of an era of civilization. It gave people a chance to accumulate wealth. However, this only happened...

The World War II remains the bloodiest and deadliest crisis in world history. It involved the best ever battle lines, enormous armed forces, along with the most destructive weapons in the history of the world (Martel 245).  The worldwide disagreement that was regarded as or labelled World War II emanated from the 1930s great depression, a turmoil that undermined, destabilized and weakened economies, governments and nations around the world. For instance, in Germany, the rise of Hitler occurred...

INTRO Populism is a political principle that supports the interests and rights of the ordinary people in the society as they struggle against the elites who are privileged. Populism is a movement that started in America in the year 1891.It started by the establishment of the Populist Party which aimed at improving the conditions of the laborers and the farmers. The farmers were being charged an interest rate that was very high and the products sold to them were at exaggerated prices (Taggart,  ...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclairs has motivated a number of past and the present generation to fury. This is because the story involves an economic hardship experienced by Jurgis Rudkus and his family. The economy was at its worse since it treated the family as bad as cattles. The book serves as a powerful example since it is used to convey how awful workers were treated in a hundred years ago and how the role of the government regulations were effected during that period (Sinclair, 2010). This story...

Having ventured into the vast land that is America, the white settlers, had found themselves at conflict with the Indians they found already in the land. The settlers set out to change the Indians way of life by dedicating themselves to introducing western civilization to the Indians, whom they deemed as uncivilized and who saw their wandering as a result of their uncivilized ways. In 1830, President Andrew Jacksons administration passed the Indian Removal Act, passing through Congress by one vote....

Cold War was a period after the Second World War which extended for over forty year after the war. The protagonists of the war were the United States and the Soviet Union. As the name suggests, the two superpowers avoided direct confrontations and maintained some balance between them later to be known as dtente but still were engaged in indirect conflicts whereby they participated in conflicts in different parts of the world by sponsoring andor backing opposite sides in the conflicts. Words were...