History

The Civil Rights Movement began to gain ground after the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education. The movement began, under ...

The lives of both St. Mary and St. Theoktiste speak volumes as to the religious aspects and elements associated with Byzantium. St. Mary is ...

The "Second Great Awakening" that occurred in Rochester, New York was an explosive Protestant movement that became most momentous around the early 19th century.  ...

When the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrived in 2012, it became clear enough that the historical memories of the American and Canadian ...

As one of the physicists involved in the creation of the atomic bomb, Benjamin Diven would profoundly impact the history of the 20th century. ...

The United States has more gun deaths annually than any other country in the free world.  Every time senseless deaths occur because of guns, ...

The word ‘Nazi’ remains among names instantly associated with the concept of evil. After their defeat in the Second World War, the Nazi party, ...

The Anti-Communist hysteria that swept the nation after World War II, and many other times as well, and McCarthyism are deeply intertwined concepts. In ...

The Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Russia and more broadly, between the industrialized West and the Communist bloc, is considered to have ...

In the text Give Me Liberty! An American History, Columbia historian Eric Foner presents the thesis that the struggle to expand liberty to all ...