Abstract Growing concern about the morality of war prompted political scientists and international relations experts to examine and describe the justice of conflicts. Vietnam War is among the case studies used by scholars to understand the ethics of interventions. In 1955, the U.S was compelled to invade Vietnam, leading to...
Introduction To become a global free-market nation and a leader of the Western world for which it is recognized today, the United States underwent several foreign affairs transitions that continue to define its policy. Starting from an isolationist position in the 19th century which the country largely maintained throughout its...
The role of slavery in initiating the American Civil War has strenuously been discussed over many years. In South America, African slavery was extensively practiced in the nineteenth century. Southern states wanted to do away with laws that did not support slavery and even extend it to the western territory....
Reconstruction is a process that occurred after the Civil War when the federal Union was rebuilding its territories after the Southern states destroyed them. Reconstruction continued from 1865 to 1877, and its main goal was to restructure the South and help it reunite with the federal Union again (Guelzo, 2018)....
One of the main themes that emerge in Hannah Foster’s book The Coquette is the freedom of a woman in the post-independent American society. The common woman in the late 18th century was different from the modern women in the United States. At the time, women played the roles of...
During the 1950s, the American Way for Blacks in the south remained “Jim Crow,” a system of segregation that included separate schools, separate water fountains, separate coastlines, and separate public facilities. They could not vote for the president, marry white people, sit next to each other in public transportation, attend...
As the study of the events from the often distant past, history might appear uninteresting and pointless to some of the practice-oriented learners of today. In the age of modern technology and high-speed life, learning about the medieval political intrigue or the Nullification Crisis might seem pointless. Yet, such assumption...
The Armenian genocide was an organized ethnic cleansing and mass murder of native Armenians. The Ottoman army killed the local Armenians during the Persian and Russian invasions (Akçam 72). The war turned into genocide because the Ottoman state was defeated by the Srikamish. The Ottoman Empire blamed Armenians for the...
David McCullough’s 1776 investigates multiple thematic and constant aspects of the historical events that took place within the end of the 18th century. Since the work is written from the perspective of both the British and American commanders, it focuses more on the element of military strategy and does not...
Brantlinger, Patrick. “Kipling’s” The White Man’s Burden” and Its Afterlives.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, vol. 50, no. 2, 2007, pp. 172-191. The article by Brantlinger evaluates the life, transition, and transformation of the “White Man’s Burden,” as it was described in a poem by Rudyard Kipling, its connections to...