… of the Cold War: The Cold War , it was an open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts…

… as mankind himself. However, the concept of an aircraft has only been around for approximately two hundred years. Before this time, man tried to fulfill this dream by mimicking the birds. They first built machines called ornithopters to utilize…

… Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a lyrical fantasy ballad based on the story of a weathered sailor and his ordeals. The poem begins with the antiquated English mariner capturing the attention of a passer by on his way to…

… a slave, Gustavus Vassa enlightens us to the details of a world in which people are bought and sold as property. In his stories we can see how he interpreted his own experiences and we can also get some clues as to the nature of his character. From…

… where monarchs were removed from their thrones or countries have rebelled against the authority of the monarchs. Possibly the three most famous of these were the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution. When one thinks…

… by Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), is widely considered to be the first book written explicitly as an examination of political science. Among the most original thinkers of the Renaissance, throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries…

… the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Trans-Saharan slave trade one will notice great differences between the two. On one side of the slave trade there was excessive abuse towards the slaves, while on the other side there were signs of respect being…

… After decades of crusade by prohibitionists touting the calamities of 'demon rum' many people got the idea that most of what was wrong with America was caused by booze. They saw prohibition as the silver hammer that would decimate all of their alcohol-…

… temperament. Despite victories in east and west, American society was willing to lick its wounds and regroup to the temporary exclusion of any further foreign entanglement. The continued crisis with Russia further secured American foreign involvement.…

… dictators, and the greatest example of conquest and administration in the history of civilization. More land than the united states, 3 million square miles acquired in 500 years and held for an additional 400 years. All the land, people and assets…