… 1929? The boom in America came to an end due: To the fact that in October the Stock Market plunged and as the people that profited from the boom speculated on Wall street they got badly effected by it resulting in them losing their house and all…

… thank him for the liberty you will enjoy hereafter" (Brinkley 414). President Abraham Lincoln spoke these words to a former slave that kneeled before him while walking the streets of the abandoned Confederate capitol of Richmond in 1865. Although…

… you think the Tsar’s power crumbled so swiftly in March 1917? Nicholas II ruled Russia from 1894-1917 and was to be its final tsar. He ascended the throne under the impression that he would rule his whole life as it’s undisputed leader. Accompanied…

… Alexander B. Callow, Jr., "The Tweed Ring" vs. Leo Hershkowitz, "Tweed's New York: Another Look." Alexander B. Callow insists that Tweed exercised sinister influence over the city and state governments. Callow, a professor of history, wrote a…

… From Slave to Abolitionist: The Life of William Wells Brown; The Dial Press, New York, NY. 136 pages.) William Wells Brown was a black man that suffered the pain of slavery for over 20 years. He finally escaped from his master New Years…

… Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson both made their mark on United States history as presidents. One president was a wild, violent “Rough Rider” who was also insecure. The other was a deeply religious, sentimental traditionalist who stood firmly on his…

… is about Joan of Arc. She was a peasant girl who believed strongly in God. She felt it was her duty to help free France from the English and to crown the French King Charles VII who later betrayed her. In Rouen, France, she was burned to death…

… and American on his mothers. His name Winston, came after the Royalist family with whom the Churchills married before the English Civil War; Leonard, after his grandfather, Leonard Jerome of New York; Spencer, the married name of a daughter of the…

… 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 and hanged. Arthur Miller wrote…

… what we do is an understatement, because society dictates so much more than that. We allow society to dictate our beliefs, our morals, and even the things we hold to be true. Society tells us that men should be the leaders, and we believe that…