Essays on American History

Clyde Ross's Childhood Clyde Ross was born in 1923 near Clarksdale, Mississippi. During the 1920s, majority of the locals in Mississippi were continuously robbed of the vote, a control plotted through the deceit of the poll tax and the influence of the lynch mob. The state’s regime at the time associated...

Throughout its existence, the United States of America has been referred to by most of its leaders using chest-thumping words to describe its uniqueness from other nations. These leaders have used phrases like empire of liberty, shining city on a hill, earth s last best...

Fredrick Douglass' Life Fredrick Douglass' life provides a snapshot of American history epitomized in the experience of a single human being. He saw it all, grew in it and overcame as well as led the rest to freedom. Born in Tuckahoe, a small town lying on the Eastern shows of Maryland...

American Indian and Native Studies is a course which has multiple disciplinary paths. Besides American Indian studies is viewed as a circle with lines which spreads outward to various disciplinary like political science, creative writing, history, literature, law, natural resources, geography, education, economics, business and anthropology. This study is centred...

The National Women's Party and the Start of the Equal Rights Movement The National Women's Party started the Equal Rights Movement in 1923 with the intention to amend the United States Constitution (Soule and Susan 477). Senator Anthony and Curtis took it to Congress but it was authored by Alice Paul. Alice...

The Debate on Legalizing Prostitution The phraseology prostitution refers to the practice or siness of engaging in sexual activities in exchange for money or other valuables. Essentially this assignment is steered at writing an argumentative essay that deliberates on whether prostitution should be made legal or not. Currently prostitution is illegal...

The Evolution of American Protest Music The American protest music has historical underpinnings and characterized the historical transition of the nation from one era to another. The analysis of the use of rhetoric from the time of Yankee Doodle to Kendrick Lamar shows how the revolution and social change undertones embedded...

The ethnic and multi-cultural differences and racism in the US The ethnic and the multi-cultural differences have remained to be a significant problem in the US and immersed the American people in racism. In the mid-1900s, many Americans were ignorant of embracing diversity, and as a result, they turned to discrimination...

The North and the South during the early 19th century The North and the South underwent opposing as well as divergent development during the first part of the nineteenth century. The previous American Revolution was largely to blame for this. Up until the American Civil War, the North and the South...

In American history Biswas is a singular figure who exercised activist impact over political developments. He was an accomplished barrister by trade and was very successful in promoting human rights. As a lawyer, Biswas played a significant part in helping to resolve the crisis and may have been useful during...

In 1797, Sojourner Truth's Early Life and Enslavement In 1797, Sojourner Truth was born in New York. Isabella Baumfree was her previous name until she changed it in 1843. (Painter 4). She was African American and worked for women's rights as well as abolition. James and Elizabeth Baumfree, two Ghanaian slaves,...

African American lives changed between 1920 and 1960. Slavery was one of the oldest types of human trade in America, where it first appeared in the 18th and 19th centuries. In all of America, where black citizens were owned by white masters, slavery as a practice was lawful. Until it...