Slavery Reparations; Pandora's Box The US government owes the descendants of former slaves for years of unfair laws and practices aimed at their ancestors. Slavery was an institution that oppressed African Americans and earned trillions for the government and major corporations. The fede...

Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States of America. Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States and a creator of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson was a philosopher, politician, scientist, architect, i...

Racism The issue of racism has always been one surrounding much controversy. It is the type that hushes a crowd and touches the heart. The novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, exemplifies the dark shadow that racism casts on society. Through Kabuo's loss of land, the internment...

The two hundred seventy-two words of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are as significant today as they were six score and seventeen years ago. Garry Wills' "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America," explicates these two hundred seventy-two words and paints a new picture that giv...

Ah! the American Dream. Just imagining the letters forming the word "American Dream" leads our imagination to paint swirls of sparkle and gold. It was once an old ideology that determination and hard work achieved the American dream. The next-door neighbor or the passerby on the street who worked ...