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...

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...

Imperialism:Should We or Shouldn't We? The decision of America to branch out and expand the country is a decision that has been highly debated over the course of America's history. It was a difficult time in America, around the 1890's; and America was faced with a dilemma. The...

Thomas Jefferson was a man with new ideas and open minded ideals. Unlike most of his fellow politicians, he had his own strong beliefs and looked for answers in the questions instead of around them. Jefferson said that "the state of peace is that which most improved the manners and morals, the pr...