History Essays and Term Papers

to African Americans who participated in the civil rights struggle? Booker T. Washington felt that black power meant financial power. During the movement that would soon be a landmark in our country's history, the black community lacked black owned…

In The Americas Europeans have always been curious about worlds other than their own. They went to the Americas' seeking the New World. After claiming the New World as their own, another interest came about. They needed slave labor. In…

In The Americas Europeans have always been curious about worlds other than their own. They went to the Americas' seeking the New World. After claiming the New World as their own, another interest came about. They needed slave labor. In…

about past cultures and societies is through the literature of that period. When studying the fourteenth century, a surplus of good books exist revealing characteristics of life at that time. One of such books is The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.…

mighty British Empire nearly three years, 1899-1902, to crush the Boers, a pioneering people who tried to build an independent nation for themselves in South Africa. The Dutch, Huguenot and German ancestors of the Boers first settled the Cape of…

in November of 1917, its aim was to create a workers paradise and a dictatorship of the proletariat. By 1930, the Bolsheviks had imposed a totalitarian rule over Russia. This period can be divided into two distinct eras. Firstly, there was the…

Course of Action to Take War is an inevitable part of life, whether it’s a mere confrontation or an all out battle. During large scale wars people will die, from soldiers to innocent bystanders. On August 6, 1945 Truman had to make a decision,…

The Amazon Basin has been called the last frontier. Although there has been a considerable amount of government investments in rural development, the majority of Amozonia is urban. Charles Wageley said that the “Typical Amozonian town was lethargic…

It has left at least a quarter of a million people dead or missing and made refugees of more than half the nation’s population. A Treaty was signed on December 14, 1995 in Paris to formally end Bosnian War. It was signed by the presidents of…

to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The fatal incident happened on March 5 of 1770. The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshe…