… Douglass’ Fourth of July oration is a very moving and eye-opening speech. In reading this and trying to build a picture of what this might have been like to see or watch is amazing. Also as I read this and I realized a lot of things about how there…

… a written history has recorded the sightings of strange objects and lights in the skies. These objects have been described as glowing wheels, colored balls of light, and disk shaped objects. Today unexplained phenomena are generally referred to as uniden…

… the island of Nevis in the West Indies on the 11th of January 1755. His father was James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant of St. Christopher. His grandfather was Alexander Hamilton, of Grange, Lanarkshire. One of his great grandfathers was Sir R. Pollock,…

… Archaeologists have found that by 6400 B.C. people had discovers how to make alcohol in the form of Beer and Berry Wine. The distillation process where fermented solution containing alcohol was heated and the vapours collected and condensed into…

… written by Joe Masters Slavery as a global institution tends to have an unreal aura surrounding it. Modern perspectives cannot be empathetic because it is not an institution even partially realized in the last century of American life. This…

… during the reign of the young Louis XIII (1601-1643), the central power of France was dominated by a powerful statesman, Cardinal Richelieu - through his friendship with Marie de Medici (young Louis’ advisor), he became involved in government decisions -…

… theme in, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is Harriet Jacobs’s reflections on what slavery meant to her as well as all women in bondage. Continuously, Jacobs expresses her deep hatred of slavery, and all of its implications. She dreads such…

… by: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1999 pages: 262 Over the past decade, historians have gained a new respect for the value of oral history and reminiscence. “For generations serious scholars had discounted this type of historical data as being…

… Justin Ketcham, a white college student from the suburbs, thinks about affirmative action, he thinks about what happened when he sent out letters seeking scholarships so he could attend Stanford University after being accepted during his senior year…

… would be a person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life for a great cause. That is the definition that you would get out of a dictionary. My definition of a hero would be close…