Organization of American Historians

peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” Truman followed Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg’s suggestion “to scare [the] hell out of the American people, thus pitting “us” against “them” in the struggle to save the world from communism and protect the American way of…

on the years 1961-1963: it focuses on the civil rights movements in Albany, Georgia — Birmingham, Alabama — and the Walk on Washington in Washington D.C.. This episode goes into great detail about the struggles, losses, and wins that the African Americans faced in these three cities. Thus, its focus is about the blacks from 1961-1963. Henry Hampton, shares views from both those who supported racial equality and those who disagreed…

letters and documents won’t be readable by non-cursive writers,” (Crum, Huffington Post, 2015). Based off this judgement, which I think is fairly accurate, historians in the future who do not learn cursive will look back at the world’s written work, and will not be able to read it. Found in A Typographic Workbook, I recently read that the “organization of the composition in our writing creates a plan that can help minimize frustrations caused by learning and causes a chain reaction in our brain…

nurses, and ones who stayed on the home front. Historians often say that America's Civil War pitted brother against brother. But what many people do not know is that, on occasion, it also involved sisters (Nuwer,2014).Even though women weren’t legally allowed to fight in the civil war. Many women disguised as men to fight…

as the actions of a corporation, store,government or individual in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc. If that definition doesn’t satisfy you we can turn our eyes to Rex Harlow. Harlow is an American academic who in 1972 gave the claim of producing the first all-inclusive definition of PR. He stated he had researched more than 472 definitions of PR that had emerged since the early 1900’s up until his time (1972). He took the common…

period in which it is set should be more accurate. This argument becomes moot, of course, because Twelve Years a Slave was based on primary source writing produced during the time period in question, the accuracy of which has been certified by historians. One might disregard that fact in order to analyze the question of what bearing their respective production years would have had on these films, had they not been based on any books, but this would involve a study of historiography in film…

paradigm, from being a prominent Quaker pacifist to becoming one of the most active members as General of George Washington’s military unit during the American Revolution in order to understand how Quakerism could potentially be faithfully compatible with pacifism and the struggles of a “just” war. As an activist for the same principles of the American Revolution during the years of the war, Greene attempted to reconcile his Quaker religion with his active military duty, and spent the remaining…

For average Americans during the early postwar era, the shadow of the Soviet Union and communism loomed as a threat to their way of life, causing paranoia over the threat of communist infiltration, which gave rise to the “Red Scare”. This mass hysteria led Americans to become fearful of communist agents attempting to infiltrate their society, and to undermine it from within. Studies of this era of US culture tend to focus on McCarthyism, the term used to describe the mass communist “witch hunt”…

medical attention, active supportiveness, and soldier service that changed the viewpoint of their lives. Although women were not apart of the war, they were given the roles as nurses, supporters, and soldiers. As said in the journal of African American Women During The Civil War, women were used as a benefit of “free labor” in which they were assigned to military duties that resulted in“less or no pay” (Addams, 2). This primarily shows that women were being used to work in the labor force, so…

cultural monuments. In recent years, Iraq’s cultural and historical heritage faced a quantifiable level of destruction and damage caused by armed conflicts in the country. The most important and profound armed conflicts in modern day Iraq are the 2003 American war and the present day threat of ISIS. This essay will consider different types of actions that have caused damage to Iraq's heritage by both events, evaluating the impact each has had on Iraq’s culture. The essay will also consider…