… past month for this class than for any class in the 13 years I have been going to school. I have really gotten into the readings and have enjoyed learning about the many historical events we have studied. There was about six readings that I enjoyed…

… work in the United States during the 1920's? At midnight January 16, 1920, one of the personal habits and customs of most Americans came to a halt. The Eighteenth Amendment was put into effect and all importing, exporting, transporting, selling,…

… the Native peoples of Canada Excellent. Essay         The trapping of beavers for their fur had always been an integral part of native culture. The introduction of the profit-seeking fur trade caused drastic changes in the native way of…

… that was not well documented for the lower class. In fact, the only references to the culture of the lower class or "folk" were from oral history, poems, elite writings about the folk society, and from secondary sources. One source Poverty of Progress,…

… culture of people. Bushmen refer to themselves by the tribe they are associated with instead of the term 'Bushmen.' For many years they upheld a hunter/gatherer status, though they could have advanced economically. There exists a cultural spirit…

… can find an incredible amount of information about any given period in any given part of the world. Yet as varied are the history books, so are the biases which they each present. We see one example of these biases in Einhard's The Life of Charlemagne…

… College. His father was the first Westminster MP to be killed in the First World War. He served in the Irish Guards in the Second World War, in which both his elder brothers were killed. After a succession of junior offices, Captain O'Neill, as he was…

… was born in l928. When he was two, he moved to Cordoba, Spain, because of asthma. As a young child, Guevara became interested in reading Marx, Engels, and Freud found in his father's library. As he grew up, he watched the Spanish refugees from the…

… nor singular study of the past. Due to the wide range of evidence within the archaeological record, from organic to inorganic, many different methods and approaches are taken in order to deal with the wide spectrum of differing evidence. Nevertheless,…

… necessary for the residents at that time. The Early Middle Ages of European civilization were not good times for those people. Population was small, the food was limited, and disease and illness were easy to catch, but hard to cure. To put it simply,…