… War. Freed slaves who tried to vote were beaten, jailed, lynched. Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan stopped thousands from registering." That is how Associated Press reporter Katherine Rizzo opened a recent column about Rutherford B. Hayes…

… in Japan. The samurai formed a one of a kind class. The samurai wore two swords as a symbol of their caste . In 1867 the last shogun resigned, and the samurai class lost its privileges in 1871 when the whole feudal system was wiped out. During that…

… the Braintree, Massachusetts payroll robbery and murders is the most politically publicized murder case in the history of American law. Were they tried, convicted, and executed for murder, or for their disloyalty to the American capitalistic…

… resulted in many being hanged or in prison. In the seventeenth century, a belief in witches and witchcraft was almost universal. In Salem Massachusetts where the witch trials take place many people who are suspicious is accused of witchcraft…

… with them from Europe a belief in witches and in the devil. During the seventeenth century, people were executed for being witches and followers of Satan. Most of these executions were performed in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Mostly all of…

… something, all the rest will follow. Modern day people learned this in Salem, Massachusets during the witchcraft trials. Hysteria is a main cause for people losing their reasoning. Sensible people’s pleas were ignored because they had been accused…

… in the new movement of art in the early 20th century called Surrealism. In 1921 Dali studied at the San Fernando Acadamy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Here he was able to associate and learn from such Spanish modernists as Fedrico Garcia Lorca, and Luis…

… opened the first Wal-Mart store in 1962, it was the beginning of an American success story that no one could have predicted. A small-town merchant who had operated variety stores in Arkansas and Missouri, Walton was convinced that consumers would flock…

… ways. In today’s culture powerful would mean having money, or possessing much influence through many people. I think the samurai were powerful not because of possession, but because they had a great deal of honor, loyalty, and kindness. This was…

… composition, dynamics, and ideology -."(1) That is what was explored in the book The Sans-Culotte. Albert Soboul describes and outlines the composition and activities of the different sections in Paris during Revolutionary France. Soboul describes…