Labor historians

The Gilded Age was an era of corruption and capitalism. It is also okay to think that it was America’s formative period when a society of small producers transformed into and urban society dominated by industrial corporations. These years saw labor violence, racial tension, militancy among farmers, and unemployment. The 1880s and 1890s were years of technological innovation, mass immigration, and intense political partnership. There are so many differences between the Gilded Age and…

Cornwallis of the Britain surrendered to George Washington of the Continental Army at Yorktown, Virginia. This date not only marked the end of conflict between the two sides, but the beginning of the construction of the government we have today. Many historians argue that the Americans had done something revolutionary by overthrowing the British Monarchy and establishing a Republic. Others will argue that the movement was not revolutionary because it did not result in a change in social regime.…

Podcast Assignment 6: “FDR’s Losing Battle To Pack The Supreme Court”. Podcast Assignment 6 is about the interview to historian Jeff Shesol –author of several books and former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton– about his book: Supreme Power: Franklyn Roosevelt Vs. The Supreme Court. This book is a narrative of President Roosevelt’s idea for packing the United States Supreme Court and the events that originated this idea; the strategy he used to achieve his plan; the reaction of his…

Prior to the civil war, which was 1861-1865, the first black slaves arrived in 1619. The slaves during these years of 1619-1885 over 3million black slaves came over to the United States and the slaves were was used in providing cheap labor for the United States tobacco, sugar and cotton plantation. The black slaves became chattel by 1740, which meant the slaves became objects and meant that slaves could be bought and sold, and were, not classified as people. The Union had less slaves due to…

millions that were affected. Slavery of African Americans is wrong because the way they got captured and transported, Slavery started when America was found after a while, Settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants. The Middle Passage was the crossing from Africa to the Americas, which the ships made carrying their “cargo” of slaves. They would kidnap African Americans to be sold as slaves and the ones that fought back…

his bills on time to his vampire loan collector. Grahame-Smith makes the claim that they were killed by a “fool’s dose of vampire blood.” In reality, the three died from milk sickness, which according to David Herbert Donald, a renowned Lincoln historian, was a disease that was caused by cows “eating the luxuriant but poisonous white snake root plant” they found on their wanderings through the wild forest. Additionally, after the death of his mother, Grahame-Smith’s Lincoln is pictured with…

The American Revolutionary War has been well documented by historians, especially the lives and feats of well-known patriots like George Washington and Paul Revere. However, an under researched topic is the study of the average soldiers who fought the battles and lived through the Revolution. This is an analytical biography of one of those soldiers, twenty eight- year old William Davis. William Davis enlisted in the Virginian militia “previous to the landing of British Gen. Thomas Gage at Boston…

Some documents are created for the present alone such as to do list and letters while some documents are created to last for centuries and are written to survive the trials of time. In general, durable writing materials required excessive time and labor to produce. Written eye witness testimonies became more reliable and trusted than recited oral history. Through deciphering and translation, writings from all times and languages can be understood. The Sumerian Civilization was not focused on…

The architecture and agriculture stood the test of time, but came from different civilizations. Mesopotamia and Egypt have innumerable similarities and differences that are incredibly valuable to historians and humans in general. Mesopotamia and Egypt have numerous religious similarities and differences. Both cultures of polytheistic, but they have a different number of gods and how they worship them. Mesopotamians only worshiped the gods like gods, but Egyptians also worshiped pharaohs as…

Medicine During the Elizabethan Era The Elizabethan Era is a big epoch in English history. This era was ruled by Queen Elizabeth, 1558 through 1603, historians refer to this place in time as the Golden Era. They refer to it as the Golden Era because of how many great accomplishments, and changes that were made. Medicine however, did not change much from medieval time to the Elizabethan Era. During the Elizabethan Era, people still believed many incoherent theories related to anatomy. These…