INTRO
In May 1607, three ships sailed up from Chesapeake Bay in search for the first permanent English colony in North America. Although Jamestown colony was doomed from the...
Writings on History: The Causes of the Civil War
The Civil War is a much studied topic in American history and the cause or causes of the war are hotly debated. Interpret...
I) Chapter 12: An Age of Expansion 1830-1860
A) Movement of the Far West
1)Borderlands of the 1830's
a: People began to expand to the west, north and southwest. Becau...
Throughout history, there are few military engagements which match the legendary significance and symbolism than that of the battle of Thermopylae. Here it was...
As is no surprise to me after watching The Simpsons for a number of year`s now as a reasonably mentally coherent semi-adult, the amount of actual thought and purpose in this e...
The War of 1812 proved to be the most serious challenge to face the United States since the country's birth. This Second war of Independence' perhaps changed American histor...
Writings on History: The Causes of the Civil War
The Civil War is a much studied topic in American history and the cause or causes of the war are hotly debated. Interpret...
In 1898, America was beginning to expand its horizons. But unlike Manifest Destiny over a half century before, they were now seeking out overseas lands. Realizing the great in...
The Holocaust has been regarded as one of the most catastrophic incidents throughout world history. There is no coherent justification for the causes of such calamities; howe...
No issue in twentieth-century American history has aroused more debate than the question of the origins of the Cold War. Some have claimed that Soviet duplicity and expansion...
After the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt inherited a growing empire when he took office in 1901. The U.S. had annexed Hawaii in 1898 and Spanish-Ameri...
During the end of the 19th century, the United State's foreign policy became a major issue and was in an ideological conflict within the nation. A national debate grew betwee...
In early August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of Ameri...
Perhaps more than any other nation in the world, Japan is shaped by its geography to a tremendous extent. Technically classified as an archipelago, Japan is a curved chain...
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian war raged from 1754 to 1763. Its roots began long before the first shot was fired, about 100 years before between the...
The War of 1812 proved to be the most serious challenge to face the United States since the country's birth. This Second war of Independence' perhaps changed American histor...
The Cold War is the closest the world has ever come to complete destruction. In this period of time, two world super powers were in a stalemate economically and militarily a...
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian war raged from 1754 to 1763. Its roots began long before the first shot was fired, about 100 years before between the...