Organization of American Historians

In the beginning of the 1960s, it seemed to be the dawn of a golden age, but by the end of the 60’s many Americans thought the nation was falling apart. The JFK assassination, Vietnam war, fights for civil rights, racial tensions, radical students, and the MLK assassination were main events that took place in the 60’s that made many Americans fear the worst for our nation. In the middle of all the hate, crime, and death were 16 major league baseball teams fighting for a championship, not caring…

national holiday for British Honduras, on which many locals gather in the streets to celebrate the defeat of Spanish conquerors by the British in 1798.[6] It is widely believed that the hurricane struck without any warning, although some recent historians have disputed this. In his column for The Belize Times on September 5, 2004, Emory King claimed that Belizean authorities withheld continuous warnings from U.S. ships in the region of a possible hurricane strike on British Honduras so the…

She witnessed a match-girls strike which opened up her eyes to the working conditions and lack of worker’s rights of the lower class. She also met Frederic Harrison, a British jurist and historian. Harrison inspired her interest in Positivist philosophy, an idea that all knowledge is based on sensory information, formed through reason and logic (Scott). These experiences crystallized the idea of what she wanted to do with her life. Addams…

Slavery was a despicable period of time in history, but the Underground Railroad was a major breakthrough in helping to free African American slaves during the 19th century. Despite its misleading name, the Underground Railroad was not underground nor a railroad. It was a system of hidden paths and safe houses that allowed slaves to escape to the free states in the North. The trails even led slaves as far as Canada (Trotter). It got its name because its actions all took place when it was dark…

were being compared to the racial inequalities of Blacks. Of course I’ve always known the importance of the Nineteenth Amendment and how hard women fought for the right to vote but I never would have attributed those barriers to that of the African American suffrage. However I did not know that amongst scholars, scientists and doctors in the in Nineteenth and even into twentieth century, women were considered inferior to men, and were thought to be more closely identified to a savage or…

Discovering the Music of Protest There is perhaps no epidemic in America worse then the racism and discrimination black people have face since the creation of this “free” nation. A shameful secret that the American government still barely acknowledged but a very real problem that has only grown with time with police murdering innocent black men, women and children, and the more recent event of having a raging racist elected as the USA’s new president. That is why I have decided to write my essay…

Around midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran into Bligh Reef. The result was the release of about 11 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska, loss of wildlife, and new environmental policies. The aim of this investigation is to identify the environmental policies that developed as a result of the oil spill, analyze why and if these policies were enacted, and search for evidence to either affirm or refute whether the oil spill made an impact on the…

on rebuilding Western Europe with grants and credits that Europeans would usually spend on American consumer goods and construction. It was then hoped that capitalism's cheap food and other goods would stop the spread of communism. The United States also tried to slow the spread of communism by joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was “the first mutual security and military alliance in American history” (“The Cold War”). NATO pushed the Soviets to “create an alliance with the…

born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was an African-American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. W.E.B. Dubois was an intellectually gifted person and he is the first man of African descent to receive a PH.D from Harvard University.He wrote extensively and was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He was the founding member of…

and the Soviet Union affirmed that they intended to bring German war criminals to justice (“War criminals”). After the defeat of Nazi Germany in May, 1945, American, British, Soviet, and French leaders met at the London Conference to make more detailed plans for the trials. They made a list of twenty-four Nazi leaders and six Nazi organizations…