History

Herodotus is considered one of the most entertaining historians. His account of history is considered the first example of non-fiction work, and a treasured ...

Houston viewed himself as a leader and was a man whose vision about others and the shape of the world to come were unusually ...

In The Lost Sisterhood, Ruth Rosen asserts that the anti-prostitution crusade during the Progressive Era reflects the movement’s broad approach of reforming society at ...

Though the Spanish conquistadors were significantly outnumbered by the indigenous populations in Latin and South America, the Spanish were able to effectively subjugate the ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt exemplifies the role that personality plays in defining the success of a president.  Charged with the task of leading the ...

The SS Einsatzgruppen were a select task force formed from lower to mid-raking members of the Nazi Party’s Schutzstaffel, or SS, and educated leadership ...

Queen Elizabeth I’s speech to the troops at Tilbury Camp before they were to take on the Spanish Armada is perhaps the moment of ...

As part of the “Committee of Five,” Jefferson is credited, in large part, as a major reason that the Declaration of Independence was written ...

Eckstein (A1) presented the historical significance of the King’s Peace and Isocrates’ argument in the Panegyricus. The following paragraphs will describe the King’s Peace, ...

The 1980s represent the final decade of the Cold War, a half-century standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union.  During the 1980s, ...