Organization of American Historians

African American female artists define feminism through a different set of eyes then their counterparts. The feminist art movement began as a way to equality in the field of art, yet it had it’s own set of rules. Discrimination within white female art organizations made the African American feminist movement more than just sexism, this disregard made it also about racial stereotypes. In addition, the neglect from the African American male artists forced African American feminist artists to…

Advocacy involves the process of persuading someone to at least consider one’s point of view. The role of the nurse practitioner as an advocate in healthcare is not a new one. Historically, from the time of Florence Nightingale, the nurse has been the person who has identified patient needs and sought ways to have these needs met (Maryland & Gonzalez, 2012). I currently work as a Psychiatric Forensic Charge Nurse. Working with patients that have mental illness causes you to advocate for their…

highly admired American historian and social activist, he is best known for his scholarship that focused on Southern history and racial politics. His groundbreaking work, From Slavery to Freedom, was first released in 1947 and sold more than three million copies worldwide and with many other titles to follow (Yarrow). Apart from being an historian and author, Franklin was also former president for many honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa, Organization of American Historians, and the…

The Second World War is probably one of the most documented and studied wars in humanities collective history. Historians have written extensively on multiple subjects of the war from prominent individuals, war heroes, specific battles, locations, strategies, and more. One of the most popular of these topics is the study of the rise and reign of Nazism in Germany during this time and more specifically their anti-Semitic regulations they forced upon the German population. The Nazi regime also…

On September 2 ,1939 war was waged throughout the world. This is the day historians look at as the start of the world war 2 period. Though the date is september 1939 the acts that went on through this war and the holocaust had a preamble starting before the biblical times.The U.S. being the war capital shockingly entered the fight very late into the war. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is what lead to the United States of America to enter World War Two. These are reasons why the U.S. chose…

Following the American Civil War, the United States and its policy makers faced the dilemma of how to recover from its widespread devastation, which included rebuilding the South and transitioning 4 million freed slaves from captivity to citizenship. As told by historians Paul Cimbala and Randall Miller (1999), until then, "there was no tradition of government responsibility for a huge refugee population and no [national] bureaucracy to administer a large welfare, employment, [education], and…

Mexican-American War. It was even more strict than the Fugitive Slave Law. It addressed problems regionally, by making officials from the free states responsible for aiding slave catchers.…

For instance, in Politics, Aristotle seems to echo the Founders’ attitude regarding limited federal government when he says that, “Law is a kind of organization, and good government must of necessity be good organization. But an excessively large number of things cannot share in organization” (Book VII, Ch. 4). Just like Aristotle thought the best city-states were smaller and, in turn, more closely aligned with the common interest, most of the Founders favored strong…

a problem. Social connections give rise to generalized mutual exchanges and trust. This is social capital. Social capital allows society to operate easily. People rely on social bonds for friendships, job referrals, and community and political organization. Social capital is linked to individual happiness and helps lower the crime rates, within the community. Bowling Alone analyzes previous data to show that social capital had been declining for 30 years (the book is copyright 2000, data from…

were waging a modern style of warfare. In the article, An Old-Fashioned Soldier in a Modern War?: Robert E. Lee as Confederate General, Gary Gallagher takes a historiographical approach of how historians viewed Lee’s method of warfare to answer his question of whether or not Lee was outdated. These historians Gallagher references look at Lee’s aristocratic background, personality, and treatment of civilians as a gauge to determine if Lee was an old-fashioned general as Gallagher puts it.…