John Knowles's novel, A Separate Peace, relates to the struggle of male adolescents growing up during the difficult times of World War II. Set at Devon Academy, a private Eastern preparatory school, the story focuses mainly on the relationship between Gene Forrester and his friend, Phineas, wh...

Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856. He became America's 28th president in 1912. His father was a strict Christian minister and Woodrow Wilson was brought up in a household associated with such beliefs. He was educated at Princeton and then at the University of Virginia and John Hopkins University....

The Great Depression of the 1920's and 1930's began when the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929 after reaching an all-time high on September 3, 1929. Everyone was jubilant and happy before the crash because the 1,500,00 people in America who had invested in shares of companies were ...

The U.S. Entering World War II - "A date that will live in infamy," (Snyder 33) was what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called December 7, 1941. It was a calm Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. Then two U.S. soldiers saw an oscilloscope signal on their mobile rada...

The question of aircraft carrier viability in the 21st Century has risen in the past years. "Where is the nearest carrier?" Every American president since the Presidency of Harry S. Truman has asked this question. "Carrier-based aviation, because it can bring firepower to bear on a ...

In 1990 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 57,985,595 people in the United States claimed some measure of German ancestry. This makes up almost a quarter of the U.S. population. German immigration started as early as 1607. The first three Germans to migrate to the U.S. were, F.Un...

Catch-22: A Study in Post-War Attitudes by Chris Nicholson In 1961, Joseph Heller published Catch-22, his first novel. Based on his own war experiences, the novel wickedly satirized bureaucracy, patriotism, and all manner of traditional American ideals. This was reflective of the increas...