Essays on History

Mother Abigail Adams, writes a letter in 1780 to her son John Quincy Adams, who is abroad with his father John Adams during the Revolutionary War. As his mother, she tries to convince him of the benefits of going abroad. She includes a motherly tone...

Mexican Americans often wore zoot suit consisted of high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders that displayed their culture. These zoot suits were often worn by Mexican American youths and were attacked because of it. People...

The zoot suit became a common sight in the 1930s and 1940s, with many African-American and Latino youths making it the suit of choice. In the same period, the zoot suit gained even more popularity, but this time for the wrong reason; they were associated...

Abstract This paper examines the devastating economic, social and political situation in Weimar Republic and the concept of hyperinflation as part of the daily life of the Germans during those times. A movie ‘M’ and a TV series ‘Babylon Berlin’ will be described as examples...

The Weimar Republic was a government in Germany between 1919-1933. During the Weimar Republic period, it shows the aftermath of political failure but also cultural growth that remains present to this day. Germany experienced difficulties after World War I where families suffered high mortality rates,...

Along with its chaotic economic state, The Weimar Republic had many political problems; that is, problems within the government structure, or within the political landscape of the people, which directly removed opposition, or led to the German people’s resentment of the government, which all contributed...

Between 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles condemned Germany to scandalous debt to 1934 when Adolf Hitler became Führer, major changes that greatly impacted citizens’ lives occurred in Germany. Public issues began inserting their way into the private lives of Germans. In his novel Little...

Introduction While The Great Depression played a minor factor in bringing the Nazis to power, a variety of other factors had a greater impact. Political divide within the military and German social division compromised governmental stability. Mistakes made by Weimar leadership deteriorated government power and...

Hiram Ulysses Grant, most commonly known as Ulysses S Grant, was the United States of America’s eighteenth president.  Grant was born on April 27, 1822. When Grant was growing up he attended schools in Georgetown, Ohio. When he wasn’t at school, he was working on...

Ulysses S. Grant’s full name is Hiram Ulysses Grant. He was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April, 27, 1822. He was the son of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant. His father was a tanner and a business man. He was the eldest...

There are numerous different qualities that someone would want to have and acquire to be recognized as one of America’s major generals during the Civil War, become an American president, and be known in U.S. history. Hiram Ulysses Grant was mostly recognized as a leader...

“Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” is a comparison and contrast essay by Bruce Catton about the opposing generals of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant of the Union and Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy, describing their virtues, as well as their similarities...

Genocide, in which mass amounts of a specific group of people are killed, and cultural genocide, in which the culture of a group is forced in extinction, often arises from violent conflicts that typically have at least one of two main factors driving them: religion...

The definition of culture is as follows. The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. Every place has its own culture. For instance, some of the customs, and values that we hold true in America today, are...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ continues a literary tradition of the evil of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child. In this book it contrasts the differences of man’s inhumanity to man with man’s capacity to care and love. The main theme however,...

The American Civil Rights movement is considered the most influential and significant movements in our history. Through the history of America, African American people were severely discriminated against, but it was a long chain of events which spurred on the entire black population of America...

Robert Edward Lee, born on January 18th, 1807 and died on October 12th, 1870, is regarded as one of the most successful generals of the Civil War era. Lee enrolled to the “…United States Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1825 in which...

Many consider Robert E. Lee a great general and while some do not support the cause he was fighting for they must give credit where credit is due. Lee was a natural leader who took control and led the southern army to great successes during...

The work of Sarah B Pomeroy, “Pythagorean Women” aims to provide a comprehensive study on Pythagorean and Neopythagorean women – including their issues, social history, and their writings. Although it is true that there are previous writings (by other historians) which detail information about famous...