Category: History 3303

The arrest and imprisonment of Appius Claudius resembled Verginia’s death in several ways. Verginius, a prosecutor in the trial, underlined that Appius “who had annulled the right of appeal was himself making an appeal” (Livy 232). He connected the outcomes of Appius’s decisions with the current situation and made the latter guilty of all his…

Du Bois, William, E.B. “Returning Soldiers.” The Crisis, 1919. The author of the article is W.E.B. Du Bois, an American history professor and civil rights activist. After the end of the First World War, numerous soldiers were returning from France to America and expressing their disdain with their homeland’s current situation. The author speaks from…

A story titled “A Permanent Record in an Impermanent World” can be considered a legend, as it tells of events that took place in relation to history and the development of people. The arrival of Jews to Kaifeng was one of the major impacts on the Jewish people in their language, culture, traditions, and norms.…

During the inaugural speech of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan pronounced the following: The evidence will show that [Japan’s] militaristic cliques and ultra-nationalistic secret societies resorted to rule by assassination and thereby exercised great influence in favor of military aggression. Assassinations and threats of revolt enabled the…

The smallpox epidemic of 1777-1782 was devastating and deadly for many people in North America in the late eighteenth century. British troops were immune to the disease, which gave them an advantage during the Revolution. Elizabeth Fenn, in her book “Pox Americana”, says, “smallpox may have been the gun’s most lethal legacy” (Fenn). Military camps,…

Table of Contents Initial Raids of the Vikings Conquests in the British Isles Vikings’ Settlements in Europe and Beyond Danish Dominance Fall of the Viking Age Works Cited The Vikings constitute a group of people that lived in the northern region of Europe during the Medieval Era (800 until 1066 CE). Initially, they settled in…

Table of Contents Summary Wartime Rights Eugenics The Rights of Disabled Changes in Women’s Opportunities Since 1900 Working Opportunities Women’s Suffrage Civil Rights Movement References Summary The struggle to promote and ensure the wellbeing of citizens has been continuously shifting with each decade, culminating in the present rights and freedoms the US population enjoys today.…

Introduction The US Civil War put an end to the institutions of slavery, which were preserved in the constitution of the young nation. The period of Reconstruction (1863-1877) that followed the Civil War opened up the possibility of establishing a new social system without the superiority of the white population over the black one (Library…

Manifest Destiny is a philosophy that embraces American history as a whole. This idea originated during the early colonization of New England by the Puritans, who considered America destined for New Canaan to conquer and themselves as God’s chosen ones who were to build the “City on a Hill” – New Jerusalem. In 1839, a…

In the southern states of the USA, centuries of slavery and decades of segregation created a legal and political system characterized by the dominance of White people. For example, the legislation (Jim Crow laws) prohibited the education of Afro-Americans at schools and universities along with White; they had to take a special place reserved for…