Essays on Historical Figures

Jefferson and Hamilton had a significant impact on how US history developed in terms of governance and governmental policies. The two were involved in the rising cause, and it is well known that they were key figures in the establishment of the United States of America. Jefferson and Hamilton did...

Port-au-Prince, the country of Haiti's capital, is located in the Caribbean Sea. It became the first sovereign nation with a black president. In the 19th century, it freed itself from French imperial rule. It was the second country in the Americas to achieve freedom after the United States of America....

Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte Adolf Hitler was a German Nazi leader born in the year 1889 and died in April 1945, whereas Napoleon Bonaparte was a French ruler and military leader born in the year 1769 and died in 1821. The two leaders were comparable in many ways, but they...

Under Joseph Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Union underwent a major transformation in terms of her economic, political, and military power. Stalin regarded the presence of sufficient natural resources in the nation, solid communist rule, as well as pertinent revolutionary policies, among other things, as the fundamental tenets of success. The...

The only other longer battle in all of Latin America, after the armed conflicts in Colombia, is the international conflict in Peru. The Peruvian government and terrorist groups were at odds when the battle first broke out. The systematic violations of human rights were greatly facilitated by the participation of...

The Reconstruction Period and Its Impact on African Americans The end of the slave trade is referred to as the Reconstruction Period. In fact, during the reconstruction, over 4 million slaves were liberated. African Americans were freed in particular as a consequence of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. The Congress carried out...

In late 1943, Allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin decided in Tehran, Iran, from November 28th to December 1st, that the time had come for an invasion of the European continent, and that this operation was critical to the advancement of the war effort and to...

Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time, visited Harrow School on October 29, 1941, with the aim of listening to popular songs he used to sing as a young boy and giving a speech to the pupils. Following the distortions that arose on what he...

Goe Pie's Collection and Marie Antoinette's Dress: A Comparison Goe Pie's collection evoked an exotic imperial feeling in me, and I felt like I was invited to live a mythological dream while considering her ancient traditional Chinese garments, thanks to her legendary and glorious production of dramatic themed gowns accompanied by...

David McCullough's memoirs of America's Second President, John Adams, were published in 2001. The novel received the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography in 2002, and HBO Films adapted it into a television miniseries. Autobiographies have been related to a variety of fundamental concerns, including the fact that they are often biased;...

Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American fraudster and investment firm chairman who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, resulting in $64.8 billion of losses. The fraud was widespread and included the chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. Read on to learn about the background of Madoff and the investment...

A Puritan lawyer, John Winthrop John Winthrop was one of the leading figures in the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second largest settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony. He helped lead the first wave of English colonists to the New World in 1630 and served as the colony's first...