Labor Relations What changes are needed for unions to maintain support from their membership, the community, and the employers? In order to maintain support from their membership, the community, and the employers, unions have decided to change the Continue Reading...
War Is Permanent "Nothing, nothing will ever be the same" is the last line in Peg Lauber's poem "Six National Guardsmen Blown Up Together." And it's true; nothing is the same after war. The ravages of war and conflict are permanent, indelible. This Continue Reading...
Philanthropy in Gender Equality Efforts The Approaches to Gender Equality The Welfare Approach The Equity approach Anti-poverty Approach The Efficiency Approach The Empowerment Approach Scenario Philanthropic budget of $500,000 Scenario Phi Continue Reading...
Urbanization is changing the way people live and work in America. With higher population density, residents are creating economies of scale that allow greater access to goods from around the world at competitive prices. All the cities of the Easter Continue Reading...
Industrialization in the 19th Century In the late 1800s and early 1900's, America entered an industrial revolution, meaning that people moved from living and working on farms to working in factories and living in cities. This movement had both posit Continue Reading...
Ku Klux Klan was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest and five other educated, middle-class Confederate veterans on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee (Ku pp). The name was constructed by combining the Greek word for circle with "clan" (Ku pp). The Continue Reading...
American Revolution and Taxes There has always been an uneven and uncomfortable relationship among politicians, taxation, and the American people. The old saying, that death and taxes are the only certainties in life, remains nevertheless true. Taxa Continue Reading...
Nixon before the presidency Military Congress & Senate seat Vice Presidency The election 1972 election and illegal activity Pardon and Conclusion Richard Nixon holds the distinction of being the only United States president to resign the Continue Reading...
Winning the Civil War The American Civil War is considered the most costly of all the wars fought by this nation in terms of the human lives that were lost and the casualties which left young men mutilated, amputated, and barely able to carry on. Ap Continue Reading...
Chicano History: An Overview of Chicano Historiography The past shapes the present, and to understand the present, we must understand the past. Particularly given the rise in racism and anti-immigrant sentiment directed towards Latinos today, it is v Continue Reading...
Federalism seeks a “well constructed Union,” as Madison (1787) put it in Federalist 10, whereas anti-federalists claim “the principles of this system are extremely pernicious, impolitic, and dangerous,” (Henry, 1788). The fede Continue Reading...
The Interaction of Capitalism and Industrialization Capitalism is one of the oldest economic systems in the world today and is founded on the concept of private ownership: what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours. It is also founded Continue Reading...
As first ladies take a back seat to their husbands, historians usually depict figures like Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis gingerly. A considerable amount has been written on Mary Todd Lincoln, less so about Varina Davis. Both women have been ofte Continue Reading...
During Catherine Beecher’s time, the extent to which women should be educated and the composition of that education was hotly debated. This short book is an outline of what should constitute an appropriate education for a young lady. Beecher sp Continue Reading...
Muckrakers A group of journalists emerged, during the early twentieth century, who were committed to exposing the social, economic, and political ills of industrial life, and in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt dubbed them the "muckrakers" (Muckr Continue Reading...
The essay “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King, written in 1963, is a response to a letter that was written by eight white clergymen, who ultimately condemned the strategies that Dr. King used during the American Civi Continue Reading...
The period of reconstruction was seen as a failure. WEB Dubois in his "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935) "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." Eric Foner, in his assertion regarding the Continue Reading...
Changes 1868-1968 Life in the United States in 1868 was though different from what it was a century later because racial discrimination was not as severely crippling as it was immediately after the abolition of slavery, still economic growth of blac Continue Reading...
The terrifying fear of living with the constant threat of instant annihilation from artillery shells and the soul-shaking noise and thunderous impacts of nearby strikes sent many veterans of trench warfare home with what was then called "shell shock Continue Reading...
Storni, Alfonsina. "You Want Me White." The Norton Anthology of World Vol. F. Ed. Sarah Lawall and Mayard Mac. New York: Norton, 2002. 2124-2125 The poem titled "You Want Me White" written by Alfonsina Storni explores the issue of women mistreatmen Continue Reading...
In search for honest leadership in the church she wrote "Character is the first qualification," without that, the minister is a menace." She stated that ministers should have a clean and unselfish purpose, be innovative, dedicated to the issues of t Continue Reading...
" The article also discusses the scientist John Tyndall, who with others in the British Advancement for the Society of Scientists, strongly supported Darwin. If it is admitted that matter has power attributed to it, where did it get that power? Ther Continue Reading...
Second New Deal Many of the New Deal early bills had been drafted fairly hastily, and thus were declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court (New pp). President Roosevelt now exploited developing class divisions, formed closer relat Continue Reading...
