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generally regarded as one of greatest African-American scholars and civil rights activist in American history. But one issue troubling historians is their personal portrait of DuBois in their works. No one questioned his resume, the brilliant African-American scholar, author, and civil rights activist during the Progressive Era. In the discussion of DuBois, one controversial issue has been a debate over his personality. One the one hand, some historians argue that he was an elitist intellectual,…

Yorktown, Cowpens receives very little attention from historians or the American public. This omission may be due to a concentration on Washington and his campaigns, especially by northern historians, yet Cowpens helped create the Yorktown victory. ” The Battle of Cowpens was fought in South Carolina on January 17, 1781 between the American Continental Army, with the help of the militia, and the British Army. Brigadier General Daniel Morgan led the American forces and Lieutenant Colonel…

Reconstruction period, which lasted from 1863 to 1877, is one of the most important time periods in American history. Reconstruction was about a country trying to heal after a bitter civil war. The country needed to decide where newly freed slaves fit in politically, socially, and economically. Because of the deep emotion involved after the Civil War, Reconstruction was one of the most divisive periods in American history. To help understand the time period and the division surrounding…

numerous studies regarding whether or not movies can teach history. The debate is ongoing. Some historians think that yes, movies can teach history but many lean the other direction. Historians question the validity of a film because of characters that weren’t real, or relationships that didn’t exist. In the study, there are a few key players like Peter Seixas and Robert Rosenstone. Seixas, a historian and a professor, believes history can be taught through movies by the progression of…

idea and demonstrates the true extent of American, as well as internal, involvement in Europe. While Gilbert’s thesis is satisfactory within this context, it could also be applied effectively within other texts, such as the American textbooks Gilbert mentions in the first sentence of the article and other articles that discuss American involvement in Europe during the Cold War. At the beginning of the article Gilbert mentions a flaw in many current American textbooks: the United States is often…

In “What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?” originally published in 2000 by St. Martin’s Press, University of California’s assistant professor of history Alice Yang Murray illuminates the travesty of internment set upon Japanese Americans by the United States. Alice Yang Murray is a passionate humanitarian, historian and while her surname Yang tells us she is she is of Asian or more specifically Chinese decent she does not allow this supposed bias to detract from her factual…

The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, James Anderson was published in 1988. It address the historical narrative of the education of African Americans in the Southern states of America. It paints the portrait of the persistent oral culture of African Americans. As a historian, he creatively paints the picture of the culture of African American during the Civil War until the Great Depression. After the Civil War, and the emancipation of slaves, the newly freed men and women had a…

terrorize the lives of African Americans throughout the 20th century. However, to group such an incredibly large group of people together prove irresponsible, as every group contains unique aspects in its members. At its peak, the KKK had “perhaps as many as five million—white, native-born, Protestant men” in membership. Presence of the Women’s Ku Klux Klan and the Junior Ku Klux Klan increased these numbers by approximately five million, which only increases the need for historians to address…

Historians using gender as a categorical tool of historical analysis have won prizes from Organization of American Historians and American Historical Association such as Joan Scott and Kathleen Brown. In 1986, Joan Wallach Scott published her groundbreaking article, Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” In this article, Scott asserts that gender had not been previously used a conceptual framework like race and class and should be used by historians to examine their subjects. Scott’s…

that devoted to the idea that immigrants threatened the economic and political security of the "native" Americans. In 1844, an anti-immigrant organization was created to adopt a platform that represents the threats they believe immigrants posed to America. "Immigrants Endanger America (1845) by the Native American Party is a viewpoint from the anti-immigrant organization's platform. Americans believed their gratuitous privileges to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is unnecessary…