Organization of American Historians

Black Panther party positively impacted the African American community and influenced the success of the Civil Rights Movement during 1966 and into 1982. Others debate whether the Black Panther party should be a true representative of the African American due to their methods of violence and riots during the Civil Rights Movement. The Black Panthers believed that the movement that was led by Martin Luther King was not giving the African American community what they wanted. They considered King’s…

post-Pearl Harbor reaction of the United States has become a topic of study by various historians. One such is John W. Dower who explores the intriguing comparison between American and Japanese depictions of each other in his short essay titled Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures: World War II in Asia. It is Dower’s essay that takes this interesting case study to draw the conclusion that the Japanese and the Americans were not that different in their propagandistic depictions. In his essay,…

Wells-Barnett to name a few. The activist established groups, National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), American Woman Suffrage Association(AWSA), National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), Congressional Union (CU), and National Woman’s Party (NWP), to organize parades, raise money, protest…

declared war on Germany citing Germany’s “violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States” (Office of the Historian, n.d.). When the Zimmerman telegram was intercepted, which promised Mexico assistance in recovering Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona territories in exchange for alliance with Germany, President Wilson declared war in order to protect our…

Unintended Consequences of the Columbian Exchange was the diseases that the Europeans brought over to the new world. Such ass smallpox and measles. The Native American people have never been exposed to any such disease. The native American had no immunity whatsoever and absolutely no medicine to treat for smallpox or measles. Illnesses that were mostly common to the people and sometimes treatable in Europe totally ravaged the population. Smallpox was the worst by far, the disease spread like…

making this valid statement and inquiring about other writings. In the following paragraphs I am going to examine women such as Frances Beal, Paul Murray Dolores Huerta and the Asian American Movement in the 1960s. These women…

the attack on Pearl Harbor increased nativism of many Americans towards the Japanese Americans which caused the violation of their civil rights. However, despite the negatives, Japanese American’s presence in America slowly restored with the help of organizations…

"W. E. B." Du Bois was born in February 1868 and died in 1963, he was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Du Bois earned his Ph.D. in History and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. In 1915 Du Bois wrote The Negro, which is a small book about the impact of slavery and black history in the Caribbean and United States. In the eleventh chapter of the book Du Bois speaks about “Negro…

In “A Shopkeeper’s Millennium” Paul Johnson asserts that the tensions amongst the classes propelled American society in Rochester, New York to the increased spiritual interest of an American revivalism. Johnson refutes the popular claim which reasons that American revivalism spawned out of the independent instability which resided in society saying: “...historians of religion generalize that revivals represented a quest for community or emotional stability among a nation of rootless…

also urges against the ‘us vs them’ mentality created by mythistory. McNeill explains “The result is mythistorical: the past as we want it to be, safely simplified into a contest between good guys and bad guys, ‘us’ and ‘them’” (McNeill 80). If a historian writes history in this manner, then one group at all times falls short and is made out to look like villains for years to come. An example of this was Columbus’ story, the Colonialist were depicted as noble Christian saviors, and the Natives…