Before became the U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson was serving as the Vice President of John F. Kennedy. In 1961, as a Vice President, he visited Saigon and met Diem. Johnson claimed to Diem that he was very important to U.S. objective in Vietnam and was a Churchill of Asia. Two year later, in 1963, […]
White flight refers a phenomenon where upper and middle class move from the cities to the suburbs. The practice started after the second war when African Americans started to settle in the cities. The whites were opposed to the practice and thus they started to vacate the cities and moved to the suburbs. In the […]
As immigration historians have established, the history of Asian Indian immigrants consisted of three major significant waves. The first wave began at about the middle of the nineteenth century when the first Asian Indians arrived in America. In fact, by the end of the nineteenth century, about 7300 Indian immigrants mostly settled in California and […]
First, the war was brought to a quick end by using the atomic bomb on Japan. “A feeling of vindication and a desire to end the war strengthened the resolve of the United States to quickly and decisively conclude it.” (Atomic Bomb-Truman Press Release-August 6, 1945) The bombing of Pearl Harbor was still fresh in […]
1) In the autobiography of Anne Moody, she had joined two major groups for the rights of the colored people, the NAACP and the SNNC. She had thought about joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, but she never did until she found out one of her roommates at Tougaloo college was […]
Although on its surface the book Tarzan of the Apes seems to be a mere description of a figure under strange circumstance (such as adoption to an animal family), Tarzan is significantly symbolic in historical context; it is only when we analyze a work more deeply that we find significance in it. In this book […]
Weber viewed that the protestant ethic spawned & encouraged the spirit of capitalism. He was it more than simply a capitalistic activity. According to him it was the essence which underlies the economic system. During the sixteenth century, this spirit embodied in the societies of the Europe & provided the impetus for capitalism to emerge […]
Rizals life has been a redundant subject in every student. Since the time you entered school Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda was never lost in the line of things to study, that’s why everyone know who Rizal is and the great contributions he made. Rizal was executed December 1896 and that is 116 […]
Nellie McClung was born Nellie Letitia Mooney, in Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada on October 20th, 1873 to a Scottish Presbyterian mother and an Irish Methodist father. She was the youngest of six children; at the age of six, she would move to Manitoba with her family. She would end up spending the duration of her life […]
In the years 1838 and 1839 under the late president’s, Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy, my fellow Cherokee nation was obligated to surrender its lands on the east side of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present day Oklahoma. As you may know by now my people named this gruesome not […]