American historians

Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music, claimed that “moreover a major reason Bailey and other artists appeared on Opry was to attract black listeners, particularly potential black customers for National Life and Accident Insurance, the major…

monographs including: The Civil War in the West, Partners in Command: Relationships Between Civil War Leaders, March to the Sea, and General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse. Dr. Glatthaar is considered to be one of the most prominent Civil War historians in the historical realm. The historiography of the monograph dates back to sixteen months after the beginning of the Civil War and the book itself elevates Civil War literature due to the fact that it sheds light on the United States…

What was the Boston Massacre, and how did it lead to the Revolutionary War? The Boston Massacre was a mass shooting of American colonists due to them protesting, they were shot by British soldiers on March 5th, 1770. According to Social Studies for Kids, the massacre took place outside the Custom house on State Street in Boston, Massachusetts. In research, historians have concluded five colonist deaths due to injuries sustained that night and some were instantaneous due to lethal gun shots…

“Historians use the word boom to describe a lot of things about the 50s: the booming, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called baby boom.”This quote about the 1950s shows the baby boom ,,just one of the many important occurrences in the time period,. The “baby boom” began in 1946 to 1964 and resulted in the birth of four million babies each year , in the 1950s ,in the United States which was caused because many of the soldiers coming home from World War II though the future would be…

ancestors have gone through and what a hard life they had to endure. Also, the Villalba’s are a great example of a successful Mexican family here in Texas which might sound intriguing to someone who thinks of Mexicans as “lazy”. For historians who want to focus on Mexican American History and its origins this is a great source to obtain in ones’ studies. To learn more about family history that is not taught in an everyday classroom at public schools this book might be considered for middle and…

In his essay, “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates confronts the permeation of racial discrimination throughout American history and examines its lasting legacy in modern times. Using primary accounts and historical examples, Coates traces the influence of racism from the foundation of American democracy, through the Civil War era, the inception of Jim Crow laws, the Great Migration, and continuing to modern times despite continued U.S. governmental efforts to create policy that promotes…

1. Roger P. Mellen, the author of this academic essay, is focusing on the Stamp Act that was imposed on the American colonies by the British Parliament in 1765 and forced the colonies to pay a tax on every printed material, such as newspapers, legal documents, magazines, playing cards, ship’s paper, license, and other publications. The article starts with “This study helps to clarify an historical debate regarding the colonial printers’ supposed unanimous opposition to the tax”, the simple…

Introduction The true meaning of the American dream is nonexistent, everyone will define it differently. “The charm of anticipated success” that is the American dream according to Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker and historian. Jim Cullen states in his book The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation “The Pilgrims may not have actually talked about the American dream, but they would have understood the idea: after all, they lived it as people who imagined…

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: Jim Crow Narrative Two of the stories L-352 have engaged with for American Literature have been Autobiography of An Ex-Colored and The Lynching of Jube Benson. They are written by James Weldon Johnson and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man is set in the early 1900's during Jim Crow South, and it is based on a biracial man who passes for white in order to avoid the racialized violenced the main character witnessed upon a black man. The…

to be not only the beginning of American independence…