… History Month. I chose a documentary about recovering and examining a sunken slave ship found off the coast of Key West, Fl. The documentary was featured on The History Channel's series "Deep Sea Detectives." Slave Ship In mid-July of 1700,…

… that led it to enter the First World War. With Woodrow Wilson's demand for his Democratic supporters to reject the Treaty of Versailles with Henry Cabot Lodge's fourteen "reservations" (a sardonic mock of Wilson's Fourteen Points), the death warrant…

… there have been dominant and subordinate groups, of different cultures, living in the same geographical area. In what is now known as the United States, two of these cultures are the dominant Europeans and the subordinate Natives Americans. These nativ…

… October 18, 1996         When one takes a look at the world in which he currently lives, he sees it as being normal since it is so slow in changing. When an historian looks at the present, he sees the effects of many events and many profound…

… will to live, no matter what the cost. I was personally moved by the barbaric actions taken by the emigrants, such as practicing cannibalism. Despite the grim conditions not everyone resorted to such unholy actions. The horrible events all lead back…

… in American History *-* Turner, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." -The census of 1890 said that the frontier line by 1880 was indiscernible…

… was a great deal of change in everything. The economy changed, politics changed, and even society and the way that people interacted with each other changed. Some people think that this was a retrogressive era, where racism flourished against African…

… on April 19, 1775, and was formalized with the passing of the motion for independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. We, Americans of the 21st century tend to take our freedom and constitutional protections for granted, but they…

… REVOLUTIONS -General motors, the characteristic Amer corp. (switching from US steel corp.) This singaled a shift to mass consumer economy. -The International Business Machines (IBM) symbolized another transformation to the "information age,"…

… institutions of the United States were left open to new ideas. Men such as John Dickinson began forming ideas of a strong centralized government, ignorant to the effects of the grandeur power abused by Parliament of Britain. Immediately the various…