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The Great Depression was history’s worst economic crisis ever experienced by the industrial world, lasting from 1929 through 1939. The Great Depression initially started after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment rates had dropped, causing massive declines in industrial output and employment as struggling businesses were…

The 1960’s, what was thought to be the “Golden Age” but started with the continuation of the Cold War and America’s growing population in poverty. The citizens cheered at the announcement of John F. Kennedy’s victory in the election due to the confidence and hope he brought to his presidency. John F. Kennedy uses parallelism…

John F. Kennedy played both sides of the political fence during his congressional career, which resurfaced while he pursued his run for presidency. While in Congress, his support for a bill that would act as a major benefit for black Americans to vote was shadowed by his impotence to aid the effort to divert the…

We’ve all heard the saying “a house divided cannot stand” is it possible this famous quote by Abraham Lincoln in 1858 was actually inspired by our founding father Benjamin Franklin in 1754? In 1754 one of our founding fathers illustrated one of the first ever political cartoons. Benjamin Franklin’s physical context of his cartoon was…

Although President Richard Nixon accomplished a few achievements in domestic politics, most of his first term was dominated by foreign affairs, most notably, the Vietnam War. President Richard Nixon’s six years of presidency remain widely viewed as a time of change in American military, diplomatic, and political history. President Richard Nixon played a vital role…

In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed U.S. citizens and explained the United States’ entry into World War II. “Yesterday, December 7th,- a day that will live in infamy- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan”(Chan, 2016). Pearl Harbor is a US…

Immigration has always been a part of the United States, and that was especially remains true during the Gilded Age due to both opportunity or problems in other countries. The amount of immigrants coming into the country was tremendous during the early 20th century, and many of them experienced some serious problems during their journey….

The industrial revolution is one of the greatest topics of the modernization of Europe back in the 18th century. Great Britain was one of the countries that took this idea in hopes to change its economic status and transform itself into a new urban area. Their were many things that got implemented to help this…

In Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, by Carol Berkin, who is a History Professor at Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Baruch College, provides several viewpoints of the way women were affected by the Revolutionary War but at the same time also playing majors roles in it….

“Remember Pearl Harbor!” was an American call to arms against the Japanese, who ambushed and killed thousands of sailors and citizens on December 7, 1941. It is widely recognized among historians as a turning point in America’s involvement in the Second World War, as well as a crippling attack on US naval forces. However, I…