The Liberator

Everyone knows the iconic poster of the girl in a denim jumpsuit and a red polka-dot bandana in front of a yellow background saying “We Can Do It!”. Even if the name “Rosie the Riveter” does not ring a bell, her face is one someone cannot go a lifetime without seeing. This piece of propaganda, and many others including songs and stories, are all part of the campaign that is Rosie the Riveter. Originated in the early the 1940’s, this campaign inspired millions of women to get out of the typical…

In the year 1819, there was a balance of power within the nation because there were exactly 11 free states and 11 slave states. Missouri, however, wanted statehood, which created problems because that would make the balance of power unequal. James Tallmadge, Jr. proposed what came to be known as the “Tallmadge Amendment,” which disallowed slaves’ owners from bringing new ones into Missouri, and also allowed children of slaves to be freed when they turned 25. This was approved by the…

In this book, by Noel Ignativ, the author discusses “How the Irish became white”. The book was published first published in 1995, and then reprinted in 2009. There are 272 pages in this book. This book is about how the Irish became “white” by oppressing blacks, who were seen as the inferior race, in order to become a part of the superior race, or “whites”. Being white is considered a privilege, and in order to be apart of that the Irish had to conform. The author researches what it took for the…

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances”. This is a hard lesson that many people learn throughout their lives. Author Danzy Senna exemplifies this with her characters in her novel Caucasia. The story is about a mixed raced family living in 1970’s Boston, Massachusetts. Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a Black father, Deck and a white mother, Sally. Both parents’ are on different sides of the Civil Rights Movement. The…

Though the issue of slavery was, for the most part, left on the political backburner from 1776 until about 1840, it remained hotly contested in the minds of a large number of Americans and would eventually intensify to the point of launching the nation into a Civil War. These economic, social, and political developments between Northern and Southern states planted the seeds of what would eventually become the single bloodiest war in American history. In 1619, a Dutch trade ship arrived at…

Hitler’s plans of destruction and agonizing pain that he brought to the Jews was not expected by citizens, soldiers, and the nations around the world. In January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. He began removing all other political parties, and soon the Nazi party was the only party left which enables him to carry out the Final Solution. The Nazi soldiers acted systematically in order to exterminate more than six million Jews. Throughout World War Two the actions…

Iconic Ms. Dorothy Day: Preface” There are fewer people that could recognize a problem or issue that plagues our society; contained by reason, internalize the situation without benefiting personally, answering and muster up the fortitude to attempt a solution. This notion was embodied by Ms. Dorothy Day. All around us are passionate, loving and concerned human beings, but almost never to a fault. Some people’s sacrifices are pretentious and selfish due to the fact that the person(s) sacrifice…

1) The early republic’s social division, which used to determine the shape of politic, and the great power of the senate has led to the demise of the Roman Republic. The people of the Roman Republic were divided according to the social status, most of the political power was in the hand of the Patricians, who were the members of certain elite families. The divided social status has given the most of power directly to the patrician men, who had dominated the Roman republic on both political and…

Sacrifice by fire; this remains the meaning of the Greek word holocaust. The Holocaust, also known as the persecution and murder of six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, remained a game of superior and inferior. To the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews lived as an inferior race and an alien threat to the German race and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews got consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–another meaning of the…

Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of A Novel by A. Anatoli Kuznetsov is a firsthand account of the Nazi occupation of Kiev from 1941 to 1943. Kuznetsov presents that he had began documenting events of the occupation since he was fourteen years old. The book describes the end of Soviet rule in Ukraine to Soviet liberation and the aftermath of Kiev following the Second World War. The book centers around Kiev with special attention focused on the ravine of Babi Yar where firstly Jews were brutally…