Essays on History of The United States

It is hard to imagine that the Republican party of today was once an advocate of the African American struggle for freedom and acceptance, but they were. Back then they were known as the radicals Republicans. After the Emancipation Act was a pass, new freedom...

Shortly after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, the lives of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Japenese people, both aliens and Citizens of the United States, would be changed in some major ways. Executive Order 9066, signed two and a half...

Concentration Camp- a large number of people, mostly political prisoners or minorities. Deliberately imprisoned in uninhabitable facilities in a very small area. The prisoners are forced labor and awaited execution. The first concentration camp started in 1895 by Arsenio Martinez Campos, the camps were set...

When we think of the relationship the United States has with Japan today, our first thoughts usually go to their cuisine, technology, pop culture such as anime, and traditions that could be considered the exact opposite of our own. Many of those things have managed...

The Salem Witch Trials represented a corporeal emulation of base human nature. New Historicism views the trials as both a product and result of the social, political, and religious climates seen in the seventeenth-century New World. A culmination of these myriad factors that wrought Puritanical...

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was brought about by the Puritans severe religious standards and intolerance of anything not acknowledged with their scripture. The biggest record of witch trials as well as deaths due to the witch trials occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, a town...

Have you ever become sick and not act like your “normal” self? Have you ever become so bored that you’d do anything to combat the boredom? The Salem witch trials are a historic mystery, that not even Sherlock could figure out. Although there has been...

Scattered through the history of humanity are certain episodes of inexplicable extremism. In some cases it is strongly linked to the culture of a society, but in others it is merely the fruit of a seed planted by something or someone more important, that is,...

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” Carol Berkin’s Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence explores this very idea of women’s strength revealing...

Throughout American history, women have been seen as “the weaker sex” which has lead to oppression and unfair treatment from men, and even after all this years this concept still affects women today all around the world. Prior to the American Revolution women were seen...

Despite the Industrial Revolution beginning in the 18th century, some of the influences of the revolution are still relevant today. A large part of the Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes from 1760 to the mid 1800s. An industry which was greatly...

The Industrial Revolution beginning in the 1700s lead to overpopulation of cities hoping to make their fortune. Families moved into cities where factories were growing and expanding. To support the supply chains there was a need for a bigger workforce one that included child labourers....

Britain’s wealth was built in the backbone of child labour and hardship, making the Industrial revolution the greatest story in history, highlighting the transition from hand production methods to machine manufacturing. Economic historians identify 4 separate industrial revolutions, providing an understanding of the world economy...

Introduction In this paper, I’ll be discussing the similarities and differences of “Pearl Harbor” the movie versus Pearl Harbor the real-life attack and the processes as well as the people involved in it in comparison to the movie. The movie “Pearl Harbor” retells the story...

Introduction Images always seem to make arguments to either narrow down to a specific idea or ideas or even point of views to be able to influence others that may be viewing, whether it’d be through a mural, photograph, or even a propaganda. For instance,...

Throughout history, mankind has been fascinated with the concept of flight. It was not until the turn of the 20th Century that the dream of flying among the birds became a reality. On December 17, 1905, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew on the first flying...

Generally regarded as a second groundswell of evangelical Protestant religious interest following the Revolutionary War, the Second Great Awakening was more extensive and enduring than the Great Awakening of the 1730s-1740s. While a myriad of viewpoints exist, it is generally recognized that the Second Great...

As an immigrant migrating to a foreign land, one is destined to be faced with many obstacles that might hinder their prosperity. For German Americans in the mid-1800’s the hurdles of language, politics, trust, customs, and alcohol set up these peoples for almost a century...

Introduction The 1920s up to the early 1930s came with one of the most bizarre of prohibitions that the country has ever experienced. Referred to as the prohibition era, this was a time that alcohol was banned in the United States. This was a time...