Is It Really Our HIStory?By definition, history is an account of what has happened, especially in the life of a people, country, etc., or all recorded past events. Using this definition, the American school system should recognize and teach all historical events that pertain to all ethnic groups in...

African American History Month My African American is Ray Charles, Ray Charles is one of the greatest R&B singers in the world, even though being blind, he still made some of the best and most listened to tunes of today, I think he made a huge impact on the US cause of his will to succeed and ...

In American history periodic acts of violent resistance by black slaves during more than two centuries of chattel slavery signifying continual deep-rooted discontent with the condition of bondage and resulting in ever more stringent mechanisms for social control and repression in slaveholding areas....

Commemorating Black History Month During the past, African Americans have suffered injustice and discrimination due to their race. Some of the most prominent figures during our history are DIana Ross, Sojourner Truth, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, and Martin Luther King. They h...

When determining John Brown's proper place in history many aspects have to be considered. First, are his personal actions, as well as the actions he inspired in others during his lifetime. Brown crafted a plan that he believed would end slavery in America. He felt that although slavery had b...

The area of the nation now referred to as the Old South had several distinguishing features which separated it from the rest of America. These distinctions were present from the earliest points of its history, because the colonies that were to be the foundation for the South were founded not for re...

One of the central and most enduing foundational ideologies in American culture is that of freedom, democracy and equality. The ideal and ideology of freedom from oppression and coercion began with the very founding of America in the fight for freedom from the colonial and territorial domination of ...

The Sixties split the skies. Only Civil and two world wars so neatly divided our history into a Before and After. And the Sixties were more divisive than World War II, which drew more people for the war effort. The Sixties drove people apart - husbands from wives, children from parents, students ...

American Civil Religion and Politics My major area of study is Political Science, and even if you haven't majored in political studies you know that there are few things left untouched by politics. Religion, of course, is no exception. Issues concerning religion are some of the most ho...

American Civil Religion and Politics My major area of study is Political Science, and even if you haven't majored in political studies you know that there are few things left untouched by politics. Religion, of course, is no exception. Issues concerning religion are some of the most ho...

Literature has always effectively portrayed social realities in human life through subjective interpretation of literary writers/authors. Throughout history, human society has witnessed events that influenced the behaviors and actions of people, such as the abolition of black American slav...

Why History?"One nation, under God..." These words come from the United States' pledge of allegiance. The United States, upheld by its prestige, has always been and still remains the worlds most promising and elite nation. Its institution of democracy, effective economic structure, diversity of ethn...

American Civil War Ever since the beginnings of America there have been consequential events that led to the American Civil War. Throughout history, there has been much controversy over whether this war was or was not unavoidable. Upon looking back into the chronicles of history and the longtime c...

GloryAmerica's Civil War was one of the most important wars in the History in the United States. In this war about 700,000 Americans were killed and nearly 37,000 of these casualties were of men of the African American descent. The movie Glory is one of the best-know...

The rise of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century was based on the reation of a specialized regional structure in the nineteenth century. Four major elements helped evolve America¡s nineteenth century regional structure from the agriculture based, post-independence country tha...

The American Civil WarThe topic I have chosen for my Senior Project is the American Civil War. I intend to divide this project into six segments: 1)The required interview, 2) An analysis of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 3)An analysis of a non-fiction book, 4)A review of a mo...

The American Civil WarThe American Civil War was one of the most momentous and controversial events in American history. The South wanted to maintain its way of life. Although the war was not fought over slavery directly, many causes were connected to slavery in some way. The South was tired of a...

Strong Response The expansion of the American frontier played a large part in the history and making of the United States, but how big was that role? Historian Frederick Turner felt that the American frontier played the largest influence on our country's history. Turner also believes t...

The American Civil War Overview of Causes and Outcomes The American Civil War, which was also known as the War Between The States, in the history of United States of America was a 4 year war which began in 1861 and concluded in 1865. The war was between the Federal Government of the United Stat...

Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Review James W. Loewen is an educator who went to college at Carleton University and furthered his education receiving his PhD in sociology at Harvard University. He began his teaching career at Tougaloo University in Mississippi, but would move on to the Universi...

This review is designed to give an analysis of the underlying thesis of Donald R. Wright's work African Americans in the Early Republic 1789-1831. It is important to understand that this book is designed as a textbook to aid U.S. history courses both on the undergraduate and graduate levels of...

The American civil war was unavoidable Civil War: In U.S. history, the conflict (1861–65) between the Northern states (the Union) and the Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederacy. It is generally known in the South as the War between the States and is also call...

The American Civil War was one of the largest in world history. The number of American lives lost in this war had never been heard of, nor has it been. The fighting that took place tore our nation apart and we still feel the effects 135 years later. This war is so widely written about, that it is...

The Harlem Renaissance can easily be compared to the European Renaissance that began in the 14th century. The European Renaissance included a series of literary and cultural movements in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. These movements began in Italy and eventually expanded into Germany, France, ...

Triple P's Extra Credit "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes is an amazing epic poem showing the depth of a person's soul. It actually gave me the chills while reading it. It is an intimate and personal piece. When I looked up the history of Hughes I felt even m...