In her book, Fair describes many significant ways in which people use dress, music, and sport to challenge the inherited social order, and to redefine race, ethnicity, gender, and class. The book covers the time from the end of WWII back to the 1990s. During that time, Zanzibar experience...

As I quickly near the legal voting age, I find myself faced with a big decision ; should I register as a democrat, as my forefathers before me have or , check into some of these other political parties. -After much consideration, I decided to see what all the commotion was about. What a surpr...

On July 4, 1776, the fathers of the United States of America formally declared our independence from British rule. Lacking a stable government and financial resources, our predecessors marched on an endless grid of bloody battle fields with the vision of a new nation---a nation in which they sha...

Following the breakup of the so-called "Virginia Dynasty," the rise of Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Democrats moved the government of the United States in a whole new direction. For the first time, a common man could rise to become president, and his party would therefore try to guard the var...