After the Civil War had ended, several soldiers had returned home to find their places of living destroyed. Most of these people returned to practically nothing. The United States had to rebuild itself, and this rebuilding was called Reconstruction. Today historians refer to this era of recons...

Titanic The Titanic is said to be unsinkable and it was a time in America that we thought we where unsinkable. Wade believed that the Titanic was an enduring symbol of the twentieth century. Was the he right? That is what we are to find out in this paper. We will figure this out by looking a...

American Culture in the 19th Century "Culture" means the ways in which people understand themselves and interact with each other and their environment. This essay will look at how immigration, poverty, labor disputes, and women struggling for a place in this time period shaped the ...