… can be wholly without the democratic instinct. It is not a question with any of us of having it or not having it; it is merely a question of trusting it or not trusting it. For good or ill we suddenly find ourselves bound to an international situation.…

… thousand years ago the history of the western world began. Five hundred years ago Europeans discovered the American continent. Since that discovery five hundred years ago the United States has grown to be a giant in liberal ideas, revolutionary democrati…

… in a major overseas conflict, and it’s the most controversial. It was the firs time national servicemen were sent to fight for their country. It was a war that eventually caused great divisions in the nation. A brief history of veitnam The roots…

… Federation At the end of the 1800s, Australia was divided into six separate colonies instead of being one nation. But people had been talking for years about whether Australia should be one nation, and in the 1890s a series of meetings (called conventio…

… the devastations of the Holocaust, we realized our lack of action. The United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France came to a conclusion that a world peace organization needed to be established. However, there was an existing…

… an indictment against 24 individuals with a variety of crimes, including the deliberate instigation of aggressive wars, extermination of racial and religious groups, murder and mistreatment of prisoners of war, and the deportation to slave labor of hundr…

… had the greatest naval fleet in the world. Even when challenged by the best Spain had to offer, she was able to uphold her reputation. Now this was a lot to say since, “Spain in the sixteenth century was at the height of her power.”(Marx 11) Philip…

… yet like the rest of us, he has flaws. He was dedicated to improving himself, however, and set out to eradicate these flaws. In his autobiography, he provides a specific list of the virtues he seeks to acquire, and he is much less specific about his…

… black American who was one of the most eminent human-rights leaders of the 19th century. His oratorical and literary brilliance thrust him into the forefront of the U.S. Abolition movement , and he became the first black citizen to hold high rank in…

… always been a struggle for the control of the Holy Land, especially Jerusalem, between different religious groups. The two main adversaries were the Moslems and the Christians. Since the seventh century, the Moslems controlled Palestine, but they were…