Category: American History

Jefferson’s Great Gamble by Charles A. Cerami, tells the incredible story of how four leaders of an upstate nation, risked the future of their country and careers. The four men, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Livingston outwitted Napoleon Bonaparte, the world’s most powerful ruler. How the four men secured a new future for the United States…

THAAD is a missile defense system designed by the Americans to shoot down ballistic missiles. It minimizes the risk of explosion and destroys ballistic missiles before they explode. This paper will examine what prompted South Korea and the U.S to deploy THAAD. The paper will also establish whether the deployment of THAAD has diplomatic and…

The novel A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, narrates the history of the rulers, conquerors, leaders and also the history of the oppressed and slaved individuals. In the first three chapters, the story talks about the discovery of America during the colonization by the European supremacy and the emergence of a…

Langston Hughes’ spectacular flair for poetry began on February 1, 1902 when he was born in the small town on Joplin, Missouri. Through contribution to poetry, he truly inspired a generation of children and adults alike to follow the meaning in his poetry. He also contributed immensely to the historical time known as the Harlem…

December 7, 1991, the day that changed the lives of the American people. This event was the first day that American soil was attacked. The first day that American’s realized that their home front wasn’t truly safe from the outside world. This was the day that the naval base of Pearl Harbor was attacked. “As…

According to the article, “Cherokee Petition Protesting Removal, 1836”. Along time before, the idea of Indian removal has its origins rooted earlier in the eighteenth-century. A form of Indian removal was first proposed by Thomas Jefferson. However, Native Americans resisted the violent attack of American settlers. Other worker to adapt to American culture and defend…

By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. shift from isolationism and continental expansion to imperialism. The primary motivations and factors that led to this were economic, exploratory, political, religious, and ethnocentric. Colonists provide cheap raw materials and guaranteed markets for European and U.S. trusts and monopolies during this time. This era was…

Table of contents Reconstruction to Present Limitation of Civil Liberties Voices of Freedom Coercive Patriotism Conclusion Reconstruction to Present When Confederate General Robert Lee E. announced his formal surrender more than 150 years ago, the Civil War was brought to an end. Preoccupied with the challenges of the present moment, America citizens will continue to…

The newly founded American Republic was an experiment that challenged the strength of a representative government based on democratic principles. The resilience, perseverance, and diversity of George Washington, John Adams, and were all factors that led the new nation into its success. However, the Union faced many challenges in its infancy on both the domestic…

Living in a society propelled by growth certainly has its advantages. Today, we are blessed to have the internet. The times of heading off to the library to take out books, and talking with an attendant at a desk for their aid in researching topics rarely happens anymore. Yet, the internet does not discuss everything…