Abraham Joshua Heschel

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an abolitionist publisher and orator in the anti-slave movement. He was born in to slavery and escaped in 1838. He was invited to speak about how the Fourth of July meant for the black population in the U.S. In acceptance, Douglass presented his speech in Rochester, New York on July 5th 1852. In his speech, he attacks the irony and hypocrisy of the nation’s patriotic holiday that celebrates freedom and independence, while most of the black population were still…

Slavery Beyond the Civil War On December 18, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment went into effect and became part of the constitution of the United States. Newly freed slaves felt the negative effects of the amendment with harsher conditions than previously under slavery. Post-Civil War had a vision of freed slaves, but in reality, the enslavement of the black population still existed after the Thirteenth Amendment because former slave owners and politicians wanted to suppress the previously…

seat just looking at the scenery go by in the window. My parents was in the front talking among themselves. We get roughly 15 minutes down the road, my mother’s pager goes off, and they need her at work. My mother at the time was a head nurse at Abraham…

Abraham Lincoln, a name that rings to our brains when we think about abolishing slavery or a presidential assassination. An ionic man for standing up for what he thought was right and actually pursuing a way to find results or solutions. Our 16th President gained a reputation not only at local or state levels, but on the national stage for being honest. Presented with the biography written by William E. Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, we the readers, can begin to dig deeper into…

After reading textbooks and listening through classes, there were many things that related to the cause of the Civil War. Many people during that time didn’t agree on a whole lot. One thing a lot of people didn’t agree on was the owning of slaves. The dispute over the owning of slaves was one of the many reasons that states started to secede from the north. Most people in the North didn’t own a whole lot of slaves. Some states in the North still allowed it, such as the Border States Missouri,…

Bad times are inevitable in everybody’s lives, but some question: what good can come from the bad? First published on April 7, 2014, the article “What Suffering Does,” by New York Times columnist and PBS News Hour commentator, David Brooks, digs into this idea through claims that suffering plays a major role in people’s lives because it helps them grow as people (Behrens). Brooks states that happiness is just one piece of “the human drama” and suffering is the other (Behrens). Brooks’ topic of…

It was a breezy, cloudy day, sometime around 1:15 pm on a Monday afternoon, with a slight chance of rain, and a lot of people present. Sitting there was President Abraham Lincoln, white faced covered in marble, facing the Washington Monument, another great historical location, about 1.5 miles apart from each other. Also surrounded by a lot of historical memorials like: The Korean War Veterans Memorial, and The Vietnam Veteran Memorial. Standing tall the Lincoln Memorial is surrounded by large…

Being American means eating a hot dog while enjoying a baseball game or barbequing some pork ribs when celebrating a fourth of July. Our food and eating habits represent the culture we identify ourselves with. Cultures are represented by their different ethnic foods. There are a lot of foods that represent our American culture. The all American hamburgers, steak, sandwiches, hot dogs, and the traditional turkey. What does it mean to be an American? To be American means to be free…

There was a four-year bloody battle during the civil war. Both the northerners and southerner took fighting each other very seriously, and they both thought it would be a short war and minimal casualties, but that did not become the case. When the southerners talked about the northerners, they called them cowards and they did not think that they had the courage and strength to sustain in a long drawn out battle. The northerners really expected the southerner will to fight to weaken quickly and…

As we all know the civil war is a very interesting period in the creation and establishing of the united states. The civil war occurred during the time period of April of 1861 until about 1865 of May that year. During this time slavery was a major issue facing in the north and the south with president Lincoln coming into office, and African Americans serving in the war was a major issue. During the civil war, there were two sides. The two sides were the union and the confederate. African…