Essays on History

When the war ended with the detonation of two powerful atomic bombs, they seemed to know that there was no time to mourn the destruction of their city. When they came, everything was gone. But they are not worried. Although Japanese morale, they are still…

By the end of the Civil War, the new issue that emerged in Congress was what to do with the Confederacy. Many plans were proposed but the one that was chosen planned to treat the South as a series of conquered territories. Each could be…

The Reconstruction era is the time period that took place immediately following the civil war, this timeline is often referred to as being between 1865 and 1877 but can be viewed differently from many different historian’s points of view. Every historian has a different point…

In France, people were having trouble with the Monarchy. This is because the King put higher taxes on food like bread, which only affected the 3rd Estate. So the third estate decided to get help from the Estates-General who doesn’t allow one-sided power. However the…

Atomic bomb. A-bomb. Nukes. Hydrogen bomb. Weapons of Mass Destruction. There are numerous nicknames for nuclear weapons, but there is only one way to accurately describe its effects: Annihilation. The destruction or obliteration of its intended target. The words “nuclear weapons”, alone, should instill fear…

The Reign of Terror turned into a radical event in the course of the French Revolution with Maximilien Robespierre and Jean-Paul Marat. This event, depending on the perspectives might be justified, unjustified and through and largely justified. This length of the time had many executions,…

After the Civil War, there was a tremendous effort to transform the Southern states and their society. The North wanted to integrate blacks into society as quickly as possible. The South, however, was not as eager. In fact, the South wanted an end to all…

Sure, evidence suggests that Columbus and his men did enslave some of the natives; however, his rationale was not based on their skin color or ideas of racial inferiority. Instead, he saw the “Indians” as suitable servants because of their familiarity with the land and…

Whether they came as servants, slaves, free farmers, religious refugees, or powerful planters, the people of the American colonies created new worlds. Native Americans saw juvenile settlements develop into relentless footholds of immense new populations that increasingly monopolized assets and roamed the land into something…

How could it be possible that two colonies from the same origin country could turn out to be so different? Both populations originated from England and were ran by the British, so how could this be possible? As time went on and communities began to…