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In writing a historical narrative, it is easy for the historian to fall into a singular view and perspective of a given historical event their own. Due to historians being nearly exclusively male, up until the modern era, a vacuum was created lacking perspective and understanding of the view of women. Gender history challenged these…

“I wish there was a war,” a hopeful and determined 14-year-old Alexander Hamilton writes in his journal. Alexander Hamilton was a military leader, lawyer, journalist, econ- omist, and the first secretary-treasury of the United States of America. Alexander Hamil- ton was an ambitious intellectual who has made a lasting impact on America today. Hamilton was…

The rain disintegrated into my skin a young dievious boy had just pulled the last straw what else could go wrong? Before I could catch my breath my life had just shattered before my eyes in one unpleasant phone call with my mom. My house had been found as unliviable and we had to leave…

During the Dust Bowl, hundreds of thousands of southerners faced many hardships, which is the basis of the novel called The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinback wrote this fiction novel to portray the harsh conditions during the Dust Bowl. However, is the portrayal of the Dust Bowl in The Grapes of Wrath valid? When one…

Christopher Columbus has been a celebrated hero in America for centuries, so much so there is even a holiday celebrating his discovery of America. Not only is he seen as the person who discovered America by most of the population, he is seen as an Italian American symbol of pride for his accomplishments. Columbus is…

Utopian socialism is the belief that social ownership of something that is useful to a group of people can be achieved by voluntary and peaceful surrender of the rights of the ownership of the resource by the groups owning them (Taylor, 1982). The name Utopia was used by Thomas More to describe a society where…

In the passage Utopia, by Sir Thomas More, More uses characters to speak about this fantasy world that he tries to pass off as a real place, in order to express his feelings about how his country of England is running. In the story, Thomas More creates this main character, also by the name of…

The Call of the Wild, a novella written by American author Jack London, features Buck, a Saint Bernard mix that was stolen from his home in California and sold to be a sled dog in Alaska during the Klondike gold rush. While in Alaska, Buck goes through many masters, most notably, Hal, Charles, and Mercedes…

Under the original Articles of Confederation the United States had a great deal of power over their own internal affairs. As a compromise between a strong National government and a system where the states retain most power the founding fathers created a Federal system which balanced powers between the two. In the first half of…

The civil war was an extremely important part of american history and was a time where our nation was the most divided as it has ever been. Many factors including the issues of states rights, westward expansion, and most importantly, slavery, were what finally caused the north and south to fight against each other in…