Category: American History

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian trader, explorer and navigator. He was born in Genoa, Italy. In 1492, a new world had been founded by this man. Many people in Western of Europe want the shorter way to get to Asia. At that time, he didn’t have enough money to pay for the voyage. So…

John Winthrop and Thomas Paine each hold remarkable places in and strived to establish liberty in the British colonies. John Winthrop, dying nearly a century before Paine’s birth, led the Reformed Protestants to the New World, pursuing an “errand in the wilderness.” He was focused on religious liberty. In A Model of Christian Charity, a…

Table of contents A Novel Idea The Cold War The Election of 1960 The Creation of the Peace Corps and Notions of Imperialism The State of the Peace Corps Now In the spring of his inaugural year, President John F. Kennedy signed into effect what would perhaps become his most enduring legacy: a government volunteer…

As an arts student, I have been able to have and appreciate the opportunity of joining in on sociology courses. Reflecting back over these past 12 weeks, I had the moments of engaging in challenging yet cognitive global topics. By cognitive, I would like to mean the topics that required thinking, understanding and making myself…

The year of 1803 the North Americans made the best business of all the History, when buying the Territory of Louisiana to Napoleon. They paid US $ 15,000,000 (about 220 million today) for a territory larger than Mexico, which has one of the world’s largest rivers, the Mississippi, which is fed by a basin of…

Leading up to the late 18th century, had been running and watched over by Great Britain. Even though they were two separate continents, America was deemed as Britain’s property, and everyone living in Colonial America was expected, and some could say forced, to follow the law of Britain. Some laws seemed so ridiculous and restrictive,…

Shays rebellion is usually not viewed as having a pivotal role in the course of and how we got to where we are today, but in more than one way it changed America forever. The rebellion started with just a group of unhappy poor farmers, but turned into massive protests with thousands of men, which…

Track and field may seem like it’s boring and a waste of time. No one really wants to sit around in the hot sun just watching random people run as fast as possible. Believe me that no one will intentionally put themselves in this position. If I wouldn’t have tried track myself I would have…

“My father, with tears in his eyes, tried to smile as one friend after another grasped his hand in a last farewell. Mama was overcome with grief. At last we were all in the wagons. The drivers cracked their whips. The oxen moved slowly forward and the long journey had begun.” — Virginia Reed, daughter…

On June 17, 1972, President Nixon was accused of sending five men that worked for his presidential campaign to break into the Democratic Party headquarters to avoid impeachment. Once the Watergate scandal was solved, it truly left behind major long-term and short-term impacts that changed American history. President Nixon’s actions changed the way citizens saw…