History

The Maori People of New Zealand Under Colonialism

Colonialism is a system of domination that may be characterized as a system that entails the subjection of native peoples and the exploitation of their natural resources. In most cases, this was done in the name of establishing dominance. Coloniality is an extension of colonialism, which occurs when the colonized...

America’s Civil Rights Movement

Introduction There was an extensive struggle for the African American civil rights movements, particularly in the American Northern municipalities, which opposed discrimination against employment, education, and housing. Some leaders, including Martin Luther King, engaged in peaceful demonstrations but received brutal force responses from Deep South militants, hindering them from attaining...

Karl Marx’s Influence on European History

Who Was Karl Marx? In a household of nine children, Karl Marx was the oldest boy who survived when he was born in Trier, Prussia, in 1818. Although his parents were originally Jewish and came from long lines of rabbis, his father, a jurist, changed to Lutheranism around 1816 due...

Unjustness of United States Invasion of Vietnam

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...

Foreign Affairs in the United States’ History

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...

Slavery: Cause and Execution of American Civil War

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: Successes and Reasons of Failure

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)....

The Freedom of Women in the Early American Society

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...

“We Can Do Better”: The Civil Rights Revolution

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...

“What Is History For?” Video Analysis

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 – 1915 Massacre

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...

Analysis of 1776 by David McCullough

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...

Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism

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...