Teaching history through fiction is dangerous because it may give the reader a wrong idea of the event that’s happening. If the reader is getting the wrong facts of the story, they will always remember the wrong facts of the event. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an perfect example of why teaching history […]
Sciences and enlightenment in the French revolution crucially impacted the unrolling of the of its prominent ideas that it tried to get across. Scientific methods empowered ideologies and artilleries, it shifted Politics, power, war, culture and the economy in 18th century France. Furthermore, it greatly impacted and shifted the world we live today. The involvement […]
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Get startedReading about historical methods, one finds that history is a vast and unique topic which is hard to define once we start studying it. When we think about history, it takes us into our past, into previous centuries and millennia. Not only are historians are concerned about the past, but philosophers and artists also deal […]
Black History is an equally important part of all of the histories of the USA and it is something that should not be celebrated just for a month. It should be acknowledged all year long. We should appreciate the contributions of black people to the culture and development of the United States. But while absolutely […]
The Bloody Massacre, also known as the Boston Massacre, is an event in US history that occurred in 1770, during the time when Britain continuously passed legislative acts that placed increased taxes on goods sent to the colonies, forced sailors into the Royal Navy, and forced colonists to provide quarter for British troops. As the […]
All the pressure was on him to lead the army that could be the biggest impact on the independence of the country. Washington was born on his father’s Pope Creek tobacco farm on February 22, 1732 (George Washington Birthplace National Monument 1). Parents were Mary Ball Washington and Augustine Washington (George Washington Birthplace National Monument […]
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel’s, The Communist Manifesto, is a political proclamation written by the German philosophers with the intent of spreading the message of Communism and the revolutionary change it could bring. The manifesto is considered one of world’s most influential political documents and has shaped many world governments into what they are today. […]
Adolf Hitler, born in Austria, denounced his Austrian citizenship and later became a German politician. He started his political journey in 1919 after he joined the German Workers party. The party then came to be commonly known as National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) or Nazi Party which was started after world war one period. […]
The world created between the end of the First World War in 1919 and the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 was one of the economic and social depression as well as one filled with political unpredictability which marked existence of ideologies. In this regard, I totally agree that the interwar period should […]
Dante’s Vita Nuova represents what could be termed as a text of High Middle Ages. The poem explores literary construction the myth of the contemporary love in the European world. In a late eleventh century, approximately two hundred before Vita Nuova was written, European culture began to experience some re-evaluation of the representation of woman […]
Introduction The first part of the essay is about how progressive era of the late 1800s to early 1900s was a direct response to the ‘guided age of the mid-late 1800s’. The second part of the essay describes the guided age, outlines the major events, people, and ideas and how the things in question spur […]
The Boston Massacre is one of the topics addressed in the collection of documents Reading the American Past volume 1 To: 1877 chapter four. The Boston Massacre is an event that took place in 1768 in America. It’s an incident that involved the British soldiers and American colonies who had started a rebellion against the […]
Westward expansion of the United States from the years 1860-1890 was due to many factors from the 19th century. Major cities were built, along with railroad networks, improved agricultural land, and newly defined states and territories. Other factors to consider during this time were native tribes of the west, geologic features, and precipitation. (PBS learning […]
Prior to moving West, Northern America had gone through various wars and battles, one being the Seven Years War, also known as the French and Indian War. The French and Indian war had been fought between England and Britain for control over North America. The two fought each other along with their indian and colonist […]
After the Civil War, Americans moved west of the Mississippi River, assuming control the area for farms, homesteads, and mines, and driving out the first clients, the Local Americans. American pioneers and European migrants overpowered the adversities of life on western homesteads planning to bring together new lives. An important part of the area in […]
Westward Expansion was a really important time in a America’s. People were in the need of gGold and they wanted to start their new lives on a fresh page. Manifest Destiny was the belief that it was America’s believed it was there duty to stretch from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Do you believe it was […]
Today I am going to tell you about lewis and clark and the louisiana purchase I am going to tell you there adventure and what happened on their journey about the people they met and other things and another thing i will be telling you about the louisiana purchase and more details about the westward […]
Between the Election of 1800 (also known as the ‘ Revolution of 1800′) and the Compromise of 1850, Westward Expansion was high and very controversial. Tensions between the North and the South began to rise as the question’ slavery or not? ‘ was asked as more of the people settled in the West. With new […]
During the 1800s, the federal government promoted westward expansion in a variety of ways. This expansion changed the shape and character of the country. The promotion of westward expansion was also known as the Manifest Destiny, which believed that the United States should expand their territory to the Pacific Ocean. An example of an action […]
During the 19th century, slavery, and its influence on Westward Expansion in America, was at the heart of political and economic unrest between Northern and Southern States. While the South relied on enslaved workers to preserve its cotton plantations, the North denied a slave system altogether. Instead, it energized its industrial labor market with a […]
African-Americans, Mexican-American, Asia-American, etc. all have their own definition of American Identity, but they all in some way correlate with the idea of American Identity. When two different writers, with two different writing styles and technique, write two different pieces, what will happen when both are defining what American Identity means to them? ‘In Response […]
When you think of the American Revolution, one of the first things you usually think of is the Boston Massacre. A massacre is the killing of a large number of people that are usually helpless or unresisting under the circumstances of atrocity or cruelty. In this essay, we are going to explore the questions what […]
Did you know that Boston Massacre was a famous pre-Revolutionary incident that occurred on March 5, 1770. British troops who were quartered in the city, fired into a rioting mob killing five American civilians.The massacre resulted in the death of five British colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations […]
The Boston Massacre took place in 1770 outside the Boston Customs House. More than one hundred Bostonians confronted a band of nine British soldiers near a sentry box outside the Boston Customs House (Gale, 1999). Tensions between the Bostonians and the British soldiers rose, and the British ended up fatally wounding five civilians. The five […]
The Boston Massacre was a tragic event in American history that helped lead America to become an independent country. The Boston Massacre was a fight that broke out in 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts, that ended with British soldiers killing five American colonists. While the actual cause of the Boston Massacre is still debated even today, […]
On March 5, 1770, British troops fired into a crowd of Bostonians, killing three civilians immediately and injuring eight more. Two of the wounded died from their injuries soon thereafter. This event was quickly dubbed the “Boston Massacre” by Americans critiquing the British for imposing taxes and stationing troops in the colonies. Historians still have […]
Christopher Columbus Many people believe that Christopher Columbus discovered North America. That is wrong. A lot of stuff people think about Christopher Columbus is actually not true. The ship, La Nińa, was actually not called the La Nińa. What about his name? His name was not Christopher Columbus! What else is there about him? Childhood […]
Students all over the world have heard about or learned about Christopher Columbus. All of the students know him for finding the “New World.” Not many people have really taken a deeper look into Columbus’ life. Christopher Columbus is actually very interesting when you get to know him. Christopher Columbus’ voyages made a big impact […]
Christopher Columbus changed the world during the early modern period in many different ways. By colonizing the Americas created new trade commodities and new routes to travel by sea. Even though Christopher columbus colonized the Americas he did not discover them. There were natives living on the Americas before Columbus stepped foot on them. This […]
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451- May 20 1506. Christopher was also a explorer, a navigator, and a owner of three ships. His journey was that he was trying to find a new route to Asia. (That in his lifetime he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean) There are many different […]
