Organization of American Historians

(Burroughs) This poem, is to show the American people the quality of each and individual American person. Whitman has so many beliefs that would create the “American dream” society is looking for. Some of these opinions being, everyone is equal and everyone has an understanding and connection with one another. As a result of these views, “Song of Myself” is described as “a kind of wondrous filtration system, absorbing all the disturbing, vicious aspects of American Life and creatively combining…

“explanation of underachievement” to being akin to that of the constrictions women and minority students face and states this to be a “long standing tradition of how to explain the psychology of poor achievement” (45). Daryl Scott, an intellectual historian labels the culprit here to be “psychic damage” (46). Not fully convinced Steele moves to answer two questions: First, was stigma pressure a general phenomenon or did it only effect those of a “special vulnerability”? And second, whether…

clean, safe nuclear power. Through the mass effort of the FEI, Soviet nuclear technology soon proved to be far more advanced than American technology(Perera). On June 1st, 1954, the USSR publicly opened and activated its Atom Mirny-1 reactor, the first nuclear power station with a substantial power output (Nelson 230). This massive reactor belittled and humiliated American nuclear technology, as the US was able to produce only…

About the Author Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. From 1991 to 1993, she was an Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. She was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education (Ravitch, 2013). As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation…

What Really Caused the Vietnam War The Vietnam War is credited as one of the most momentous events to have taken place with American Forces on Foreign Soil. From movies, such as “Forrest Gump” to “Platoon,” the Vietnam War still resonates in American Society. This prevalence lets Americans question and recall the events of the Vietnam War, but most importantly brings up the question: what was the cause of the Vietnam War? The Vietnam War is said to have started because the US did not want any…

time when segregation was a major issue in areas such as Oxford, North Carolina. Although segregation had been outlawed due to the court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, whites still viewed African Americans as lesser people. The town of Oxford is a very racist town that does not want to integrate blacks into their every day lives, but they get a new preacher at their church who had different plans. The closed mindedness of whites is seen…

things that already exists, interweaving theories and themes between old and new literature. Within this process, authenticity is lost. Contemporary authors no longer bother with creativity and taking their novels further than the mere surface of American norms. Amanda M. Bigler refers to Thomas Pynchon when trying to express the notion of intertextuality; she proposes that Pynchon introduces to us the theory that there is no possibility of ‘new’ in this present day, that in fact, everything is…

Between 1763 and 1800 a social revolution occurred in America bringing attention to different groups of people. Many historians interpret the American Revolution having two major problems. Gordon S. Wood argued that radical ideas of liberty grew in the colonies and ultimately led to a successful break from England and establishment of a nation built upon liberty. On the other hand, Alfred Young points outs that the revolution meant different things to different people, and that the successes…

For example, Adam Smith a political economist viewed the division of labor as positive and a benefit to workers and employers. In contrast, Alexis de Tocqueville a French political thinker and historian viewed the division of labor as negative that made workers stagnant in their lives. Adam Smith had stated that there was a “great increase of the quantity of work which is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity…

eventually Americans. Ultimately, their ethnocentrism led to violence and the stereotype of danger in Africa. In order to determine whether or not there is a still a strong…