… a former government official in Laos, Jerome Doolittle, wrote in The New York Times: “ …After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us”. For 11 years, the most powerful nation in the world…

… invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, which is located on the south coast of Cuba about 97 miles southeast of Havanna, was one of mismanagement, poor judgment, and stupidity (“Bay of Pigs” 378). The blame for the failed invasion falls directly…

… lives, but could two significantly relevant people shared such common lives that might even seem eerie. Abraham Lincon and John F. Kennedy were both assassinated. However, apparently there is more to connect them than that. A little part of US histo…

… year of success. One of the major achievements is the cure for Polio being discovered which saved many lives and made the disease extinct. Other successes include the revolution of music and the birth of Rock & Roll. Other achievements this year were…

… one of the saddest generation of people to have ever lived. They were destroyed not only physically, but also mentally and spiritually. The soldiers would have prefered to die because when they got back home from the war, they felt “lost” and didn’t…

… Kentucky. Garrett was the second child in the Morgon family. Garrett got his name by his matermal grandfather. Garrett’s mother was named Eliza Reed. She was the doughor of the Reverend Garrett Reed. He was the ministor of the…

… covers many aspects of life : human rights, religious freedom, economic freedom, freedom of expression and political freedom. In America in the 1920's there was an illusion of freedom - but some people were more free than others and this depended…

… Roosevelt would once again stand on his own and distance himself from the political bosses and machines that got him elected. The head of the Republican machine, Thomas Platt, had misgivings about making Roosevelt governor of New York because of…

… an intimate classification of women with domestic life that achieve a wide acceptance throughout the 18th century. Women were thus locked in the “created” domestic sphere while men were busy in the political sphere. However, Anne Hutchinson…

… M. Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Alice Paul and Samuel Hopkins Adams all have in common? All five contributed to exposing the truth behind the progressive era’s corrupt politics and social injustice. They were an elite group known by society as muckrakers.…