… Polk defeated Whig party candidate Henry Clay to become the eleventh president of the United States. Democrats nominated dark horse candidate Polk on the ninth ballot of the Democratic National Convention after party favorite Martin Van Buren lost the…

… 1824, political dominance by the Revolutionary generation came to an end. The American people passed the torch to a generation of Americans who either experienced the Revolution as children or were born in the first years of independence. Moreover,…

… Bismarckian Alliance system 1879-1883 ? During the 1870's in the aftermath of the creation of the German Empire, the main issues to vex the Great Powers were Austro-Russian rivalry in the Balkans, and German fear that such a rivalry might…

… we can tell you all about them, but when asked about the women of the women’s suffrage movement many of us can’t tell you a thing about it. The women of this movement were fighting for something they wanted and something they believed they felt…

… Treaty of Paris following the Revolutionary War in 1783, a new American nation was finally legitimized. The United States, which as thirteen individual colonies had retained a tradition of internal jealousies and suspicions, began a long and difficult…

… I lay the groundwork for Hitler’s rise to power and ultimately World War II? The terms of Germany’s surrender in World War I laid the groundwork for Hitler’s rise to power and ultimately World War II because of the controversial Treaty of Versailles…

… Egyptian whose tomb was recently discovered at Abusir. Through the excavation of his tomb, archeologists have found much information about the Egyptians and about the Persians when they occupied Egypt. Czech archeologists opened his tomb February28,…

… and “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King use different techniques to fully convey their own opinions on injustice in the government; Thoreau uses a metaphor while King uses an illustration in order to establish…

… in the First World War were of a scale never before seen. Great Britain and its Empire lost over 1,000,000 combatants; France, 1,300,000; Russia, 1,700,000; Germany and its allies, 3,500,000. Losses in life per day of the war exceeded 5,500. Although…

… by Stephan King called “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” he claims that we all crave an inner fear. He claims that we all crave for the worst, and at times this seems to be a scary truth. However, in an article by Alice Walker, “Beauty: When the Other…