Prohibition One of the most conflicted points of United States history is associated with the temperance movement, which culminated into a federal constitutional amendment prohibiting the production, transportation, and sale of all alcoholic beverag Continue Reading...
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of autonomous labor unions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, and U.S. dependencies, was formed in 1955 by the merger of the American Federation Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Historical Significance of India Gate: Explore the conception, construction, and the historical context in which India Gate was erected. Delve into its role as a war memorial, commemorating the Ind Continue Reading...
Traveling in Search of Americas HistoryTour 1The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was created by Maya Lin. The historical event that it honors is the Vietnam War and those who died or went missing as a result of their sacrifice in the war. This war is signi Continue Reading...
Liberalism1: Chapters 1-3IntroductionThe Industrial Revolution changed the rules of the game in England in the 19th century. Zevin shows that the aristocracy had ruled in the past; but by the 1840s, a new order had emergedone in which a rising middle Continue Reading...
Assumptions, Expectations and Roles Freud’s influence began in Europe in the early 20th century. Europe, especially in the region of Germany, was changing dramatically. WWI was brewing as a result of Germany’s rise to power at the end of Continue Reading...
Future of Renewable Energies While the reliance of the United States on natural resources and fossil fuels must give way to renewable and sustainable resources at some point, the ability to change to new technologies is not yet here and further effo Continue Reading...
Natural Resources in US History The study explores how the US has used the historical wealth of its natural resources to offer the country a strong and sustained economy for many decades. The USA is one of the greatest countries in the world, not Continue Reading...
Org Crime Organized crime underwrites the bulk of political, social, and economic history in America. What has often been mentioned in passing as legitimate business activities can and often should be reframed as organized crime, such as the trans-A Continue Reading...
1920s / Automobile & Modern Advertising Perhaps the most famous American novel of the 1920s, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, contains two memorable images. One is the vast billboard by a car repair shop, with a pair of "blue and giganti Continue Reading...
While the authors' claims are true since the backlash between the two communities or groups are incomparable, Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans have experienced a fair share of backlash after the 9/11 attack. The group has continued to experience Continue Reading...
Evolution of U.S. Fiscal Policy Before the United Stated entered the Great Depression, the government's approach to the economy was laissez faire, which means it did not intervene in business affairs. Taxes were typically paid only by the very riche Continue Reading...
C. By Michael Shively (June, 2005), the first hate crime laws were enacted during the sixties, seventies, and eighties. The first states to pass hate crime legislation were Oregon and Washington in 1981. The first federal hate crime legislation, Shiv Continue Reading...
Prohibition Was Bound to Fail As the culmination of the century-long temperance campaign in the United States by religious preachers, women's temperance advocates, abolitionists, and later industrial leaders, the Eighteenth Amendment was passed in Continue Reading...
First, this viewpoint essentially discounts all abstract works from being called "art." This idea seems counterintuitive to many; numerous art critics, collectors, viewers, and even Rand (see below) consider abstract art to be art, based on the meta Continue Reading...
For Hobbes, individuals must be a larger population beneath authority, and those individuals must, by the very nature of the perpetuation of the species, cede all rights and control over to that authority. It is also well within the natural rule of Continue Reading...
Having started as a bookkeeper in Cleveland, John D. Rockefeller accumulated money while being a merchant, and then bought his first oil refinery in 1862. By 1870 he had started Standard Oil Company of Ohio. His secret agreements with railroads all Continue Reading...
Imperialism and African Colonization: Imperialism is empire building and occurs when one state is more powerful than the other state's obstacles (such as peoples, geographic obstacles, physical obstacles and technological obstacles) to expansion. Continue Reading...
Also, gay characters have slowly become more prominent both on TV and in the movies. In the 1990s, producers gave up on feeling that they had to challenge gender representations as models of masculinity and femininity had become less offensive and Continue Reading...
In this sense, during the First World War, because of the fact that the governments of the belligerent countries had to have the public support for the waging of the war, they acted in a propagandistic manner. More precisely, "under the name of prop Continue Reading...
They argued that women would not have any reforming effect on the country because they would vote with their husbands (opposite of what they argued earlier). In states where they already had the vote, they had made no difference. Finally, they argue Continue Reading...
Fisher saw the British Navy as overstretched, deploying unnecessarily large numbers of the wrong types of ships in all the wrong places. He scrapped the light cruisers, sloops, gunboats and guardships that showed the British flag across the world f Continue Reading...
Alcohol tobacco and fire arms (A.T.F) In the federal government, in one way, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a brand new agency with a new mission, new name and a new place. On the other hand, the status of the agency in t Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Historical Analytical Methods of Donny Gluckstein: Explore the unique methodological approaches employed by historian Donny Gluckstein in his analyses of labor movements, revolutions, and social struggles. Discuss how Continue Reading...
American immigration policy and population patterns have changed in response to labor demands and economic forces, as well as shifts in American identity and social norms. Global forces have also shaped immigration patterns over the past hundred year Continue Reading...
Government Impact the Lives of Individuals Between 1900 and 1945, the United States was characterized by major demographic, technological and economic changes, which took Americans to the moon. These changes greatly altered the ways that Americans l Continue Reading...
Rite of Spring - Vaslav Nijinsky & Igov Stravinsky In what ways has The Rite of Spring laid the foundations for postmodernism in art, music, and dance? The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, laid the foundatio Continue Reading...
Beer is as synonymous with German culture as watches are to Switzerland. The centrality of beer to German culture is owing to centuries of tradition, long before the unification of Germany in 1871. Although beer consumption in Germany has declined ov Continue Reading...
Raj What impact did British rule have in South Asia in the political, economic and social arenas, especially during the period of formal rule under the Crown (1857-1947)? Social unrest, political instability and fragmentation, and economic transfor Continue Reading...
Terrorism Define and discuss terrorism. Who chooses to participate in a terrorist campaign, and why? Evaluate such mitigating factors as politics, nationalism, and religion. 'Failed states' are defined as states that can no "longer perform basic f Continue Reading...
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis The Weimar Republic represented a period of tumultuous upheaval for Germany politically and economically, but culturally as well. Following World War I, the public was only beginning to come to terms with the emergin Continue Reading...
Effects of social advertising on the American society Having seen that the society at large is highly dependent on the social media, and it is on these social networks that the social advertising has turned to, it is necessary to look at the exten Continue Reading...
She hid the severity of Wilson's condition from the public, controlling access to him to everyone except herself and his doctors for a time (Thurston). However, historical evidence suggests that Wilson was incredibly weakened by the stroke. Even con Continue Reading...
The three authors presented above and their works were considering the different ways science and the results of scientific knowledge translated in the advance of technology influence human lives. Hawthorne saw technology positively influencing the Continue Reading...
Knowing the character of the principality the prince had acquired, and tailoring his use of repression and forms of coercion, and the degree, was essential -- a lesson that has proved, one might argue, quite difficult for the United States in its in Continue Reading...
