… century, they settled mainly in Pennsylvania. Germans built large, lasting houses of wood and quarry stone. Dutch settlers came, more than a century earlier, to the New World. Their first settlements were in New Amsterdam, now known as New York…

… "The Fate of Leo Frank" by Leonard Dinnerstein did not receive a fair trial. I believe that the ghost of Leo Frank should haunt forever the families of those who convicted and lynched him. Prejudice convicted Leo Frank, not the evidence presented…

… Business In the business market there is so much competition that companies sell outside the country to increase sales. Increasing internationalization of business is requiring managers to have a global business perspective and an understanding…

… of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances .(http://www.freedomforu…

… political changes during the Industrial Revolution. Machines made life easier.decreased prices on goods, and generally improved living conditions. It created a major shift in how man thought of himself and viewed the world at large. The Indust…

… is very clear. It is "...the systematic killing of, or a program of action intended to destroy a whole national or ethnic group..." This definition very clearly describes such modern horrors as Auschwitz and Dachau, or more recent ones such as Cambodia,…

… of the Irish Potato Famine, c. 1845 - 1850, people throughout the world formed many different views on the situation. Those views formed mainly through information fed to world news agencies by the British government, the ruling power in Ireland at the…

… Meditation Links O.L.R. & St. Elizabeth Ann Seton O.L.R. &Irish Immigration Bookof the Sick E-Mail Pastors CHURCH OF Our Lady of the Rosary SHRINE OF ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON Irish Immigration and The Mission Church of Our Lady…

… western part of the Confederate and United States. At the beginning of the war, the South controlled the Mississippi from Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio emptied into the Mississippi, to New Orleans. There were several important rebel stronghol…

… Iroquois Indians have a commitment to collective responsibility and also have related attitudes towards property ownership. These concepts have had great meaning to the Iroquois and have shaped and influenced their society greatly. It has shaped…