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Topic: HistoryFound 39 articles
Gay Marriage in Antiquity: How Far Have We Come?
03/03/10 - 1613 words Regardless of which side you’re arguing for though, it’s hard to deny that the gay rights movement that America is currently experiencing feels remarkably similar to many events of our past: Abolitionism, the Civil... Go to Article » The Uncommon Commonality of Eleanor of Aquitaine
03/01/10 - 1729 words "Western civilization was feeling the need for a reassessment, a redefinition of some of its basic principles regarding the nature of man, his place and function in creation, his social organization and responsibilities, his... Go to Article » Examining Greek Pederastic Relationships
02/19/10 - 1610 words Pederasty is an ancient Greek form of interaction in which members of the same sex would partake in the pleasures of an intellectual and/or sexual relationship as part of a socially acceptable ancient custom (Hubbard: 4-7). ... Go to Article » The White Feather Campaign: A Struggle with Masculinity During World War I
02/01/10 - 6902 words World War I was a brutal conflict that shattered countries, redefined warfare with its bloody massacres, and left a generation with only the memories of the horrors they had seen. The trench warfare of the battlefield tore young... Go to Article » Nat Turner, and the Bloodiest Slave Rebellion in American History
01/29/10 - 2233 words Frederick Douglass’ statement about slavery concisely defines the effect that such an institution had on the entire shape of a nation: Without slavery, how does one understand freedom? For hundreds of years, the United... Go to Article » Reflecting on the Life of a Revolutionary: Jean-Paul Marat
01/29/10 - 3144 words Jean-Paul Marat, notorious for his inspiring yet aggressive publications during the French Revolution, was one of the most influential characters of the late 18th century. Indeed, his radical publications helped induce the violent... Go to Article » The Ugly Truth: An Exploration of Postwar Representations of the Holocaust Through The Obscene
01/28/10 - 2901 words Omer Bartov’s essay from Intellectuals on Auschwitz expresses the author’s dismay with the postwar and postmodern representations of, and discourses on, the Holocaust. He breaks down larger concepts on memory and... Go to Article » Degrees of Violence in the French Revolution
01/27/10 - 1173 words The French Revolution marks a stain in history, notorious for one of the bloodiest periods in modern civilization. Whether this infamous violence existed at the birth of the Revolution or only during the Terror has been the topic... Go to Article » Conspiracy: Did FDR Deceive the American People in a Push for War?
01/24/10 - 3933 words “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy…” is one of the most recognized speeches in United States history.[1] Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke firmly and directly on December 8, 1941... Go to Article » Breaking the Cycle: Violence, Control & Resistance in American Slave Narratives
01/18/10 - 3910 words In the world of the American slave, violence and control were intimately connected. As Frederick Douglass notes, “Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest,” a sentiment that points to the cyclical nature of... Go to Article » Rethinking the American Civil War, Through the Eyes of a Teenager
01/13/10 - 5873 words The legacy of the American Civil War with which we are left is one that emphasizes a participatory American populace, overwhelmingly enthused over and invested in the conflict. Particularly in the North, we are likely to think... Go to Article » Memorializing Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston
01/11/10 - 8537 words ‘WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE?’ historian Howard Zinn asked a member of the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society in November 2008. Zinn had just delivered a lecture for the benefit of the Society on ‘The Meaning... Go to Article » "Once There Were Two Towers": Describing Tragedy to Children after 9/11
01/07/10 - 4603 words The attacks of September 11th have frequently been characterized as unimaginable, capable of inflicting confusion and emotional trauma beyond the scope of other historical events. On September 12th, 2001, N.R. Kleinfeld of the... Go to Article » Examining U.S. Foreign Policy, Refuting American Isolationism
01/06/10 - 2448 words From before its birth to the present, the expansion of US power has been analogous to an ever-expanding hand upon the globe. Despite some of today's historically inaccurate politicians citing a revered past of non-interventionism... Go to Article » La Fin D'un Reve: French Newspaper Coverage of 9/11
01/05/10 - 2468 words In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, the reaction of the French media was one of passionate empathy. The September 12th headline of Le Monde reads simply “Nous sommes tous Américains” (We are all Americans... Go to Article » Hell Hath No Fury: The Relationship Between Greece's Medusa and Egypt's Wadjet
12/29/09 - 1806 words Two seemingly unconnected goddesses have more in common than most know. The earth is a small place and mythologies from one country overlap and even overtake myths from another country. Serpents in myth have an amazing... Go to Article » Let There Be Light: An Exploration of the Life of Nikola Tesla
12/22/09 - 5933 words A great deal is known about Nikola Tesla’s origins—namely, his country and people, to which and of whom he attributed so great a deal. The inventor recognized that he came from an extremely conflicted area in the... Go to Article » Jean De Joinville and his Biography of Saint Louis on the Seventh Crusade
12/18/09 - 1990 words The French historian Jean de Joinville was born into a noble and influential family in Champagne in 1224.[1] He took the cross in 1248 to join the first crusade of Louis IX. His decision to go on crusade was at least in part... Go to Article » A Study in Violence: Examining Rape in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
12/14/09 - 3368 words “The genocide was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible was the absence, the erasure of seeing the other, of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's... Go to Article » Serbia and the Former Yugoslavia: What's to Be Done?
12/11/09 - 4812 words It is mid-1998. On news programs in the United States, the issue of intervention in Kosovo is addressed as a prevalent concern. It is at least mentioned in every presentation: any progress that's been made or any possible change... Go to Article » The Passage from Now to Then: Examining Historical Literature Through Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian"
12/09/09 - 1938 words When considering historical literature that is based upon people who once lived, readers often ask where the details are taken directly from historical accounts, and where they differ. This is a perfectly valid lens through which... Go to Article » John Locke On Equality, Toleration, and the Atheist Exception
12/02/09 - 3334 words Political philosopher and social psychologist, John Locke, was an outspoken supporter of equal rights within a governed society. He espoused the natural rights of man, namely the right to life, liberty and property, and he articulated... Go to Article » Examining Pope Pius XII and Print Media Coverage in the U.S.
11/29/09 - 4305 words Over the last few decades there has been an overflow of publications and discussions regarding Pope Pius XII in realtion to the Holocaust and World War II. Originally stemming from Rolf Hochuth’s “The Deputy,&rdquo... Go to Article » Environmental Sustainability in China: A Historical Perspective
11/25/09 - 2292 words It is no secret that China today faces serious environmental challenges. The combination of a rapidly growing population and a lack of viable communication between the state and local communities have produced a difficult... Go to Article » Breaking Boundaries: Football and Colonialism in the British Empire
11/23/09 - 2246 words In less than one year, South Africa will be the proud host of the 2010 World Cup. To many, this privilege is a mere formality of the Cup. Indeed, hosting the World Cup is an honor, but for South Africa it symbolizes a far more... Go to Article » Lenin's New Economic Policy: What It Was and How It Changed the Soviet Union
11/19/09 - 2719 words By the time 1921 came around, Russia’s economy had been maimed by the effects of War Communism. Socialism had not begun on a good note, and Vladimir Lenin was becoming concerned with the unfortunate state of the economy... Go to Article » Impressions of Ashoka in Ancient India
11/18/09 - 1292 words In the latter part of the third century B.C. India was rapidly changing. The Mauryan dynasty was expanding across the sub-continent of India and the line of kings which had begun with Chandragupta had lost another of its sons... Go to Article » Predicting Hurricanes: The Whirlwind of Controversy Surrounding Hurricane Alicia
11/10/09 - 3477 words Hurricanes will always be a way of life for many Texans. Young Texan schoolchildren learn about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 in their classes; they hear their grandparents discuss Hurricane Carla. Every summer, a flurry of... Go to Article » Human Rights in Chile: Remeberance and Reckoning
11/06/09 - 40537 words It is important to note that information about human rights abuses in Chile, as well as the exact details and full connections of its recent political history, are still in the process of being sifted through, made public, gathered... Go to Article » Friendship and Conflict: The Relationship of the U.S. "Founding Fathers"
10/29/09 - 2535 words It is common for Americans to imagine the early leaders of the American Revolution as a group of agreeable, flawless men. However, this sentimental portrait fails to recognize the vast differences that existed between the founders... Go to Article » Religion, Commodity, or Escape: Sports in Modern American Culture
10/27/09 - 1935 words American sport has become far more than contests with rules played on fields, diamonds, or rinks. Our current conception of sport is more than just a ball moving between groups of athletes, or a struggle for a finish line, or... Go to Article » Redskin and All-American: Jim Thorpe's Malleable Symbolic Significance
10/26/09 - 2580 words In 1950 the Associated Press polled close to 400 sportswriters in order to name the greatest male and female athlete of the first half of the twentieth century. For the men, a crowded field of legends including Babe Ruth, Joe... Go to Article » Rezak Hukanovic: Witness and Survivor in The Tenth Circle of Hell
10/26/09 - 2865 words The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia, written by Rezak Hukanovic, is one survivor’s account of his experience during the war in former Yugoslavia. In a chronological manner, Hukanovic... Go to Article » The American Military and the Press: From Vietnam to Iraq
10/22/09 - 1947 words “News is something someone wants suppressed,” British newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe once said. “Everything else is just advertising.” This point is especially true in war journalism where every story... Go to Article » Stalin and the Drive to Industrialize the Soviet Union
10/21/09 - 2472 words The late twenties and early thirties were perhaps the most transformative period in Soviet history. It was during this period Stalin consolidated his grip on power and was allowed to rule with impunity, instituting his &ldquo... Go to Article » Causes for the Guatemalan Civil War as seen in Paradise in Ashes by Beatriz Manz
10/19/09 - 1450 words The civil war in Guatemala was the longest struggle in modern Latin American history, spanning decades from the late 1950’s to the 1990’s, and leading to deadly armed conflict between government and rebel militias... Go to Article » John Locke and the Second Treatise on Government
10/19/09 - 1542 words In 1688, King James II was overthrown by a group of Parliamentarians. This was the result of what is now known as the Glorious Revolution, or the Revolution of 1688. Naturalist and political philosopher John Locke was present... Go to Article » Decolonization and the Collapse of the British Empire
10/19/09 - 1576 words Before World War II it was fairly said that, “The sun never set on the British Empire.” For decades, this was true; their colonial Empire literally spanned the entire globe. After the War concluded, however, a worldwide... Go to Article » America in the Post War Period
10/18/09 - 1439 words The end of World War II was not just the end of a war, but also the beginning of a tense and dynamic period that affected society on all levels. This “postwar” period, as it became known, shaped the world as we know... Go to Article » |